A recent talk exploring how complexity science provides a rigorous bridge between hard science and Eastern contemplative traditions, recovering the philosophical depth that Western mindfulness has lost.

Are academics miserable? Could science help us to be happy? In this conversation about alternative research environments we explore these questions and what sort of a research environment we might want. Pavel is now creating such spaces - like a week-long mindful research retreat this summer.

How immanent existential threat may help us find enlightenment the hard way. Or a personal journey trying to reconcile death with happiness