#49 Heartland Podcast: Robert Sapolsky & Lone Frank
At Heartland 2019, the American neurobiologist and author Robert Sapolsky met with the Danish author and science journalist Lone Frank.In front of a live audience in the festival’s Future Talks tent the two participants discussed the future of human life.Future Talks were created to invite scientists and theorists into the public conversation and make us all take an interest in the future. In this case the future of our kind, the way we live our lives and our continued evolution.Robert Sapolsky works at Standford University and has published the book Behave where he attempts to explain why humans behave the way we do. Lone Frank has a background in neuroscience and is considered one of Denmark’s very best science journalists.We hope you’ll enjoy this episode of Heartland Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Om Podcasten
The Heartland podcast primarily features live conversations from the festival’s talks program and is an initiative created to focus on the future that we already live in. Heartland’s ambition is to engage its guests in the world by creating a contemporary cultural platform where people can gain new perspectives on the transformation and development of our world.Heartland’s talks program has established itself as one of the most esteemed stages for live conversations in Northern Europe and has hosted some of the world’s greatest minds and artists since its start in 2016. Among others, Sir Salman Rushdie, Angela Davis, Marina Abramović, Brian Eno, Margaret Atwood, Slavoj Žižek, Werner Herzog, PJ Harvey, Michael Stipe, Tracey Emin, Jonathan Franzen, Vivienne Westwood, Judith Butler, Douglas Coupland, David Shrigley, Kim Gordon, Joshua Oppenheimer, Bjarke Ingels, and Olafur Eliasson have been a part of the talks program. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.