05/17/2013

Desktop Diaries: Daniel Kahneman

6:02 minutes

Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman is the latest subject in our “Desktop Diaries” series, although he has no desk. Kahneman, professor emeritus at Princeton University, won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 2002 for his research with the late Amos Tversky on our sometimes-irrational intuitions and how they affect decision-making.

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Flora Lichtman

Flora Lichtman is a host of Science Friday. In a previous life, she lived on a research ship where apertivi were served on the top deck, hoisted there via pulley by the ship’s chef.

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Flora Lichtman is a host of Science Friday. In a previous life, she lived on a research ship where apertivi were served on the top deck, hoisted there via pulley by the ship’s chef.