Grand Challenges represent society’s wicked problems—complex, persistent, and difficult to solve due to incomplete, contradictory, and ever-changing demands. Yet, addressing them is essential for humanity and life on Earth to survive and thrive. That’s why I have started my new podcast, Seth Kahan on Grand Challenges. My work is dedicated to confronting these monumental issues. […]

I am proud to share that I will work with the American Association of Physicists in Medicine to identify the biggest, boldest challenges to create breakthroughs in medical physics. What is medical physics? Today, its applications can be seen in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), lasers and ultrasound, computation-driven medicine, artificial intelligence, and nuclear medicine, to

This photo crossed my desk yesterday, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and John Lewis. Lewis was born poor, but a free African American in Maryland the same year as Clemens, 1835. As the Civil War approached Lewis moved north to Elmira, New York. Clemens was also in Elmira to be near Olivia Langdon, whom he would

I often walk along the Potomac, enjoying one of the land’s great rivers so close to my home. Yesterday afternoon, on a beautiful fall day, Laura and I went down a path along the C&O Canal and made our way to the shore of the Potomac via one of the many side trails. The picture

If you follow me you know that for a couple of years I have been studying the Bhagavad Gita, a popular (for 1,000s of years) poem that has provided spiritual inspiration to many. Recently, I began to read the version translated my Gandhi, which included some of his commentary. In parallel I am reading the

It’s fall here in DC, and the weather is getting cooler. That means I’ll be looking for an overnight camping trip soon! Kaya and I get out every morning and evening for a long walk. That’s us in the park above, early morning. Things are heating up on multiple fronts, with Stop Stigma Together moving

I invite you to my wife’s album release concert. Beauty in the Broken is more than just an album – it’s a call to embrace our struggles and celebrate our healing. As the poet Rumi said, “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” The track “Heal Out Loud“, now an award-winning music

Last week, I had the opportunity to speak about Stop Stigma Together at The Kennedy Forum’s Alignment for Progress summit this last week in DC, chairing a panel with: Andy Dunn – author of Burn Rate and founder of Bonobos, speaks on his lived experience of being a founder with bipolar disorder; Rachael Cooper from

Grand Challenges are society’s toughest problems—complex, persistent, and resistant to easy solutions. Addressing them is essential for humanity’s survival and prosperity. I am obsessed with finding collective frameworks that address these issues, which are too vast for any single mind to solve and are deeply rooted in legislation, policies, social behaviors, and mindsets that hinder