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Guests:

• Leonard Mlodinow - Theoretical physicist and author of The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Vintage)
• Jon Chase - Biologist and director of the Tyson Research center at Washington University in St. Louis
• Lori Marino - Evolutionary biologist, Emory University
• Deborah Gordon - Biologist, Stanford University
• John Beggs - Physicist, Indiana University at Bloomington

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