Welcome to the new home of "Too Hard For Science?" In this series, I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated. For instance, they might involve machines beyond the realm of possibility, such as neutrino detectors as big as a galaxy, or they might be completely unethical, such as experimenting on children like lab rats. This feature aims to look at the seemingly impossible dreams, the most intractable problems in science. However, the question mark at the end of "Too Hard For Science?" suggests that nothing might be impossible.
I'll have a new post in the series at noon today and will hopefully be posting new items in the series every week. In the meantime, here are the original posts, in chronological order:
Vladimir Mironov: Making astronauts with printers
Robert Stickgold: The sense of meaning in dreams
Jeanne Garbarino: The adventures of a biomolecule in a cell
Martin Bojowald: Creating naked singularities
Philip Zimbardo: Creating millions of heroes
Duncan Watts: A digital panopticon
David Brin: Raising Animals to Human Levels of Intelligence
Greg Valentine: Recreating What Killed Pompeii
Dean Kamen: Defying Gravity
Luis Bettencourt: Simulating the Human Brain
Freeman Dyson: ESP
Bora Zivkovic: Centuries to Solve the Secrets of Cicadas
John Tonry: An Early Warning System for Killer Asteroids
David Stevenson: Journey to the Core of the Earth
E. O. Wilson: A Vertical Map of Life on Earth
Klaus Zuberbuhler: The Genetic Foundations of Intelligence
Joan Slonczewski: Reshaping Ourselves for Our Changing World
Christopher Chabris: Seeing If 10,000 Hours Make You an Expert
Daniel Simons: Regaining the Element of Surprise
Lawrence Krauss: Neutrinos from the Big Bang
Steven Pinker: Experimenting on Children Like Lab Rats
Anthony Atala: Off-the-Shelf Organs
