Part of the Science and Society Initiative: A three-year collaborative project with the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies and the Laboratory for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology at Stanford University Medical School. Learn more: https://iranian-studies.stanford.edu/...

Professor Robert Sapolsky spoke at Stanford on October 24, 2017. Here he sits down with Dr. Josef Parvizi (Stanford School of Medicine) and Dr. Abbas Milani (Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies). Dr. Sapolsky is an extremely talented speaker and teacher whose course at Stanford University is one of the most popular classes on campus. He is the author of several works of nonfiction, including "A Primate's Memoir," "The Trouble with Testosterone," "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers," and his most recent book "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst." He is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius award.