Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

By Sean Carroll | Wondery

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 Sep 16, 2024


 Apr 12, 2024

Sean
 Oct 24, 2023
Brilliant. Sean is an excellent communicator and the subjects he tackles are very interesting. if you love science, you'll love this.

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 Aug 22, 2023

Elwood
 Jul 8, 2023
This podcast series is a masterclass in interviewing, conceptualising and summarizing. With wit and intellectual depth. SC is a great communicator.

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Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black holes work? Do you wonder why you get emotional each time you see a certain movie, or how on earth video games are designed? Then you’ve come to the right place. Each week, Sean Carroll will host conversations with some of the most interesting thinkers in the world. From neuroscientists and engineers to authors and television producers, Sean and his guests talk about the biggest ideas in science, philosophy, culture and much more.


Episode Date
AMA | October 2024
Oct 07, 2024
291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging
Sep 30, 2024
290 | Hahrie Han on Making Multicultural Democracy Work
Sep 23, 2024
289 | Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments
Sep 16, 2024
288 | Max Richter on the Meaning of Classical Music Today
Sep 09, 2024
AMA | September 2024
Sep 02, 2024
287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History
Aug 26, 2024
286 | Blaise Agüera y Arcas on the Emergence of Replication and Computation
Aug 19, 2024
285 | Nate Silver on Prediction, Risk, and Rationality
Aug 12, 2024
AMA | August 2024
Aug 05, 2024
284 | Doris Tsao on How the Brain Turns Vision Into the World
Jul 29, 2024
283 | Daron Acemoglu on Technology, Inequality, and Power
Jul 22, 2024
282 | Joel David Hamkins on Puzzles of Reality and Infinity
Jul 15, 2024
Ask Me Anything | July 2024
Jul 08, 2024
281 | Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution
Jul 01, 2024
280 | François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence
Jun 24, 2024
279 | Ellen Langer on Mindfulness and the Body
Jun 17, 2024
278 | Kieran Healy on the Technology of Ranking People
Jun 10, 2024
AMA | June 2024
Jun 03, 2024
277 | Cumrun Vafa on the Universe According to String Theory
May 27, 2024
276 | Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting Our Climate
May 20, 2024
275 | Solo: Quantum Fields, Particles, Forces, and Symmetries
May 13, 2024
AMA | May 2024
May 06, 2024
274 | Gizem Gumuskaya on Building Robots from Human Cells
Apr 29, 2024
273 | Stefanos Geroulanos on the Invention of Prehistory
Apr 22, 2024
272 | Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People
Apr 15, 2024
AMA | April 2024
Apr 08, 2024
271 | Claudia de Rham on Modifying General Relativity
Apr 01, 2024
270 | Solo: The Coming Transition in How Humanity Lives
Mar 25, 2024
269 | Sahar Heydari Fard on Complexity, Justice, and Social Dynamics
Mar 18, 2024
AMA | March 2024
Mar 11, 2024
268 | Matt Strassler on Relativity, Fields, and the Language of Reality
Mar 04, 2024
267 | Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia
Feb 26, 2024
266 | Christoph Adami on How Information Makes Sense of Biology
Feb 19, 2024
AMA | February 2024
Feb 12, 2024
265 | John Skrentny on How the Economy Mistreats STEM Workers
Feb 05, 2024
264 | Sabine Stanley on What's Inside Planets
Jan 29, 2024
263 | Chris Quigg on Symmetry and the Birth of the Standard Model
Jan 22, 2024
262 | Eric Schwitzgebel on the Weirdness of the World
Jan 15, 2024
261 | Sanjana Curtis on the Origins of the Elements
Jan 08, 2024
260 | Ricard Solé on the Space of Cognitions
Jan 01, 2024
Holiday Message: Reflections on Immortality
Dec 18, 2023
259 | Adam Frank on What Aliens Might Be Like
Dec 11, 2023
AMA | December 2023
Dec 04, 2023
258 | Solo: AI Thinks Different
Nov 27, 2023
257 | Derek Guy on the Theory and Practice of Dressing Well
Nov 20, 2023
256 | Kelly and Zach Weinersmith on Building Cities on the Moon and Mars
Nov 13, 2023
AMA | November 2023
Nov 06, 2023
255 | Michael Muthukrishna on Developing a Theory of Everyone
Oct 30, 2023
254 | William Egginton on Kant, Heisenberg, and Borges
Oct 23, 2023
253 | David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation
Oct 16, 2023
AMA | October 2023
Oct 09, 2023
252 | Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive
Oct 02, 2023
251 | Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity
Sep 25, 2023
250 | Brendan Nyhan on Navigating the Information Ecosystem
Sep 18, 2023
249 | Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds
Sep 11, 2023
AMA | September 2023
Sep 04, 2023
248 | Yejin Choi on AI and Common Sense
Aug 28, 2023
247 | Samuel Bowles on Economics, Cooperation, and Inequality
Aug 21, 2023
246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization
Aug 14, 2023
AMA | August 2023
Aug 07, 2023
245 | Solo: The Crisis in Physics
Jul 31, 2023
244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation
Jul 24, 2023
243 | Joseph Silk on Science on the Moon
Jul 17, 2023
242 | David Krakauer on Complexity, Agency, and Information
Jul 10, 2023
AMA | July 2023
Jul 03, 2023
241 | Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations
Jun 26, 2023
240 | Andrew Pontzen on Simulations and the Universe
Jun 19, 2023
239 | Brian Lowery on the Social Self
Jun 12, 2023
AMA | June 2023
Jun 05, 2023
238 | Scott Shapiro on the Technology and Philosophy of Hacking
May 29, 2023
237 | Brooke Harrington on Offshore Wealth as a Complex System
May 22, 2023
236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory
May 15, 2023
AMA | May 2023
May 08, 2023
235 | Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind
May 01, 2023
234 | Tobias Warnecke on Cellular Structure and Evolution
Apr 24, 2023
233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism
Apr 17, 2023
232 | Amy Finkelstein on Adverse Selection and Hidden Information
Apr 10, 2023
Ask Me Anything | April 2023
Apr 03, 2023
231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Mar 27, 2023
230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks
Mar 20, 2023
229 | Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology
Mar 13, 2023
AMA | March 2023
Mar 06, 2023
228 | Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Authenticity
Feb 27, 2023
227 | Molly Crockett on the Psychology of Morality
Feb 20, 2023
226 | Johanna Hoffman on Speculative Futures of Cities
Feb 13, 2023
AMA | February 2023
Feb 06, 2023
225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
Jan 30, 2023
224 | Edward Tufte on Data, Design, and Truth
Jan 23, 2023
223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are
Jan 16, 2023
222 | Andrew Strominger on Quantum Gravity and the Real World
Jan 09, 2023
221 | Adam Bulley on How Mental Time Travel Makes Us Human
Jan 02, 2023
Holiday Message 2022: Thinking Really Slowly
Dec 19, 2022
220 | Lara Buchak on Risk and Rationality
Dec 12, 2022
AMA | December 2022
Dec 05, 2022
219 | Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn on the Neuroscience and Philosophy of Curiosity
Nov 28, 2022
218 | Raphael Bousso on Black Holes and the Holographic Universe
Nov 21, 2022
217 | Margaret Levi on Moral Political Economy
Nov 14, 2022
AMA | November 2022
Nov 07, 2022
216 | John Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy
Oct 31, 2022
215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
Oct 24, 2022
214 | Antonio Padilla on Large Numbers and the Scope of the Universe
Oct 17, 2022
AMA | October 2022
Oct 10, 2022
213 | Timiebi Aganaba on Law and Governance in Space
Oct 03, 2022
212 | Chiara Mingarelli on Searching for Black Holes with Pulsars
Sep 26, 2022
211 | Solo: Secrets of Einstein's Equation
Sep 19, 2022
210 | Randall Munroe on Imagining What If...?
Sep 12, 2022
209 | Brad DeLong on Why the 20th Century Fell Short of Utopia
Sep 05, 2022
AMA | September 2022
Aug 29, 2022
208 | Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music
Aug 22, 2022
207 | William MacAskill on Maximizing Good in the Present and Future
Aug 15, 2022
206 | Simon Conway Morris on Evolution, Convergence, and Theism
Aug 08, 2022
AMA | August 2022
Aug 01, 2022
205 | John Quiggin on Interest Rates and the Information Economy
Jul 25, 2022
204 | John Asher Johnson on Hunting for Exoplanets
Jul 18, 2022
203 | N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists
Jul 11, 2022
AMA | July 2022
Jul 04, 2022
202 | Andrew Papachristos on the Network Theory of Gun Violence
Jun 27, 2022
201 | Ed Yong on How Animals Sense the World
Jun 20, 2022
AMA | June 2022
Jun 13, 2022
200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse
Jun 06, 2022
199 | Elizabeth Cohen on Time and Other Political Values
May 30, 2022
198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology
May 23, 2022
197 | Catherine Brinkley on the Science of Cities
May 16, 2022
AMA | May 2022
May 12, 2022
196 | Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect
May 09, 2022
195 | Richard Dawkins on Flight and Other Evolutionary Achievements
May 02, 2022
194 | Frans de Waal on Culture and Gender in Primates
Apr 25, 2022
193 | Daniels on Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Apr 18, 2022
AMA | April 2022
Apr 14, 2022
192 | Nicole Yunger Halpern on Quantum Steampunk Thermodynamics
Apr 11, 2022
191 | Jane McGonigal on How to Imagine the Future
Apr 04, 2022
190 | Lea Goentoro on Regrowing Limbs
Mar 28, 2022
189 | Brian Klaas on Power and the Temptation of Corruption
Mar 21, 2022
AMA | March 2022
Mar 17, 2022
188 | Arik Kershenbaum on What Aliens Will Be Like
Mar 14, 2022
187 | Andrew Leigh on the Politics of Looming Disasters
Mar 07, 2022
186 | Sherry Turkle on How Technology Affects Our Humanity
Feb 28, 2022
185 | Arvid Ågren on the Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution
Feb 21, 2022
184 | Gary Marcus on Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense
Feb 14, 2022
AMA | February 2022
Feb 10, 2022
183 | Michael Dine on Supersymmetry, Anthropics, and the Future of Particle Physics
Feb 07, 2022
182 | Sally Haslanger on Social Construction and Critical Theory
Jan 31, 2022
181 | Peter Dodds on Quantifying the Shape of Stories
Jan 24, 2022
180 | Camilla Pang on Instructions for Being Human
Jan 17, 2022
179 | David Reich on Genetics and Ancient Humanity
Jan 10, 2022
178 | Jody Azzouni on What Is and Isn't Real
Jan 03, 2022
Holiday Message 2021 | On Disciplines & Cocktails
Dec 20, 2021
AMA | December 2021
Dec 15, 2021
177 | Monika Schleier-Smith on Cold Atoms and Emergent Spacetime
Dec 13, 2021
176 | Joshua Greene on Morality, Psychology, and Trolley Problems
Dec 06, 2021
175 | William Ratcliff on Multicellularity, Physics, and Evolution
Nov 29, 2021
174 | Tai-Danae Bradley on Algebra, Topology, Language, and Entropy
Nov 22, 2021
AMA | November 2021
Nov 17, 2021
173 | Sylvia Earle on the Oceans, the Planet, and People
Nov 15, 2021
172 | David Goyer on Televising the Fall of the Galactic Empire
Nov 08, 2021
171 | Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology
Nov 01, 2021
170 | Priya Natarajan on Galaxies, Black Holes, and Cosmic Anomalies
Oct 25, 2021
169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency
Oct 18, 2021
AMA | October 2021
Oct 14, 2021
168 | Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness
Oct 11, 2021
167 | Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory, Physics, and Possibility
Oct 04, 2021
166 | Betül Kaçar on Paleogenomics and Ancient Life
Sep 27, 2021
165 | Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics, Luck, and Fairness
Sep 20, 2021
AMA | September 2021
Sep 16, 2021
164 | Herbert Gintis on Game Theory, Evolution, and Social Rationality
Sep 13, 2021
163 | Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology
Sep 06, 2021
162 | Leidy Klotz on Our Resistance to Subtractive Change
Aug 30, 2021
161 | W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics
Aug 23, 2021
160 | Edward Slingerland on Confucianism, Daoism, and Wu Wei
Aug 16, 2021
AMA | August 2021
Aug 12, 2021
159 | Mari Ruti on Lack, Love, and Psychoanalysis
Aug 09, 2021
158 | David Wallace on the Arrow of Time
Aug 02, 2021
157 | Elizabeth Strychalski on Synthetic Cells and the Rules of Biology
Jul 26, 2021
156 | Catherine D’Ignazio on Data, Objectivity, and Bias
Jul 19, 2021
155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics
Jul 12, 2021
AMA | July 2021
Jul 09, 2021
154 | Reza Aslan on Religion, Metaphor, and Meaning
Jul 05, 2021
153 | John Preskill on Quantum Computers and What They’re Good For
Jun 28, 2021
152 | Charis Kubrin on Criminology, Incarceration, and Hip-Hop
Jun 21, 2021
151 | Jordan Ellenberg on the Mathematics of Political Boundaries
Jun 14, 2021
AMA | June 2021
Jun 10, 2021
150 | Simon DeDeo on How Explanations Work and Why They Sometimes Fail
Jun 07, 2021
149 | Lee Smolin on Time, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality
May 31, 2021
148 | Henry Farrell on Democracy as a Problem-Solving Mechanism
May 24, 2021
147 | Rachel Laudan on Cuisine, Culture, and Empire
May 17, 2021
AMA | May 2021
May 13, 2021
146 | Emily Riehl on Topology, Categories, and the Future of Mathematics
May 10, 2021
145 | Niall Ferguson on Histories, Networks, and Catastrophes
May 03, 2021
144 | Solo: Are We Moving Beyond the Standard Model?
Apr 26, 2021
143 | Julia Galef on Openness, Bias, and Rationality
Apr 19, 2021
AMA | April 2021
Apr 14, 2021
142 | Charlie Jane Anders on Stories and How to Write Them
Apr 12, 2021
141 | Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World
Apr 05, 2021
140 | Dean Buonomano on Time, Reality, and the Brain
Mar 29, 2021
139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology
Mar 22, 2021
138 | Daryl Morey on Analytics, Psychology, and Basketball
Mar 15, 2021
AMA | March 2021
Mar 10, 2021
137 | Justin Clarke-Doane on Mathematics, Morality, Objectivity, and Reality
Mar 08, 2021
136 | Roderick Graham on Cyberspace, Race, and Cultural Conservatism
Mar 01, 2021
135 | Shadi Bartsch on Plato, Vergil, Confucius, and Modernity
Feb 22, 2021
AMA | February 2021
Feb 17, 2021
134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
Feb 15, 2021
133 | Ziya Tong on Realities We Don't See
Feb 08, 2021
Bonus | AIP Oral History Interview
Feb 04, 2021
132 | Michael Levin on Growth, Form, Information, and the Self
Feb 01, 2021
131 | Avi Loeb on Taking Aliens Seriously
Jan 25, 2021
130 | Frank Wilczek on the Present and Future of Fundamental Physics
Jan 18, 2021
129 | Solo: Democracy in America
Jan 11, 2021
128 | Joseph Henrich on the Weirdness of the West
Jan 04, 2021
Holiday Message 2020 | The Screwy Universe
Dec 21, 2020
127 | Erich Jarvis on Language, Birds, and People
Dec 14, 2020
AMA | December 2020
Dec 09, 2020
126 | David Stasavage on the Origin and History of Democracy
Dec 07, 2020
125 | David Haig on the Evolution of Meaning from Darwin to Derrida
Nov 30, 2020
124 | Solo: How Time Travel Could and Should Work
Nov 23, 2020
AMA | November 2020
Nov 20, 2020
123 | Lisa Feldman Barrett on Emotions, Actions, and the Brain
Nov 16, 2020
122 | David Eagleman on Tapping Into the Livewired Brain
Nov 09, 2020
121 | Cornel West on What Democracy Is and Should Be
Nov 02, 2020
120 | Jeremy England on Biology, Thermodynamics, and the Bible
Oct 26, 2020
119 | Musa al-Gharbi on the Value of Intellectual Diversity
Oct 19, 2020
118 | Adam Riess on the Expansion of the Universe and a Crisis in Cosmology
Oct 12, 2020
117 | Sean B. Carroll on Randomness and the Course of Evolution
Oct 05, 2020
116 | Teresa Bejan on Free Speech, Civility, and Toleration
Sep 28, 2020
115 | Netta Engelhardt on Black Hole Information, Wormholes, and Quantum Gravity
Sep 21, 2020
114 | Angela Chen on Asexuality in a Sex-Preoccupied World
Sep 14, 2020
113 | Cailin O'Connor on Game Theory, Evolution, and the Origins of Unfairness
Sep 07, 2020
112 | Fyodor Urnov on Gene Editing, CRISPR, and Human Engineering
Aug 31, 2020
111 | Nick Bostrom on Anthropic Selection and Living in a Simulation
Aug 24, 2020
110 | Neil Johnson on Complexity, Conflict, and Infodemiology
Aug 17, 2020
109 | Jason Torchinsky on Our Self-Driving Future
Aug 10, 2020
108 | Carl Bergstrom on Information, Disinformation, and Bullshit
Aug 03, 2020
107 | Russ Shafer-Landau on the Reality of Morality
Jul 27, 2020
106 | Stuart Bartlett on What "Life" Means
Jul 20, 2020
105 | Ann-Sophie Barwich on the Science and Philosophy of Smell
Jul 13, 2020
104 | David Rosen and Scott Miles on the Neuroscience of Music and Creativity
Jul 06, 2020
103 | J. Kenji López-Alt on Cooking As and With Science
Jun 29, 2020
102 | Maria Konnikova on Poker, Psychology, and Reason
Jun 22, 2020
101 | David Baltimore on the Mysteries of Viruses
Jun 15, 2020
100 | Solo | Life and Its Meaning
Jun 08, 2020
99 | Scott Aaronson on Complexity, Computation, and Quantum Gravity
Jun 01, 2020
98 | Olga Khazan on Living and Flourishing While Being Weird
May 25, 2020
97 | John Danaher on Our Coming Automated Utopia
May 18, 2020
96 | Lina Necib on What and Where the Dark Matter Is
May 11, 2020
95 | Liam Kofi Bright on Knowledge, Truth, and Science
May 04, 2020
94 | Stuart Russell on Making Artificial Intelligence Compatible with Humans
Apr 27, 2020
93 | Rae Wynn-Grant on Bears, Humans, and Other Predators
Apr 20, 2020
92 | Kevin Hand on Life Elsewhere in the Solar System
Apr 13, 2020
91 | Scott Barry Kaufman on the Psychology of Transcendence
Apr 06, 2020
90 | David Kaiser on Science, Money, and Power
Mar 30, 2020
89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time
Mar 23, 2020
Tara Smith on Coronavirus, Pandemics, and What We Can Do
Mar 18, 2020
88 | Neil Shubin on Evolution, Genes, and Dramatic Transitions
Mar 16, 2020
87 | Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy
Mar 09, 2020
86 | Martin Rees on Threats to Humanity, Prospects for Posthumanity, and Life in the Universe
Mar 02, 2020
85 | L.A. Paul on Transformative Experiences and Your Future Selves
Feb 24, 2020
84 | Suresh Naidu on Capitalism, Monopsony, and Inequality
Feb 17, 2020
83 | Kwame Anthony Appiah on Identity, Stories, and Cosmopolitanism
Feb 10, 2020
82 | Robin Carhart-Harris on Psychedelics and the Brain
Feb 03, 2020
81 | Ezra Klein on Politics, Polarization, and Identity
Jan 27, 2020
80 | Jenann Ismael on Connecting Physics to the World of Experience
Jan 20, 2020
79 | Sara Imari Walker on Information and the Origin of Life
Jan 13, 2020
78 | Daniel Dennett on Minds, Patterns, and the Scientific Image
Jan 06, 2020
Holiday Message 2019: On Publishing Books
Dec 22, 2019
77 | Azra Raza on The Way We Should Fight Cancer
Dec 16, 2019
76 | Ned Hall on Possible Worlds and the Laws of Nature
Dec 09, 2019
75 | Max Tegmark on Reality, Simulation, and the Multiverse
Dec 02, 2019
74 | Stephen Greenblatt on Stories, History, and Cultural Poetics
Nov 25, 2019
73 | Grimes (c) on Music, Creativity, and Digital Personae
Nov 18, 2019
72 | César Hidalgo on Information in Societies, Economies, and the Universe
Nov 11, 2019
71 | Philip Goff on Consciousness Everywhere
Nov 04, 2019
70 | Katie Mack on How the Universe Will End
Oct 28, 2019
69 | Cory Doctorow on Technology, Monopoly, and the Future of the Internet
Oct 21, 2019
68 | Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Common Sense
Oct 14, 2019
67 | Kate Jeffery on Entropy, Complexity, and Evolution
Oct 07, 2019
66 | Will Wilkinson on Partisan Polarization and the Urban/Rural Divide
Sep 30, 2019
65 | Michael Mann on Why Our Climate Is Changing and How We Know
Sep 23, 2019
64 | Ramez Naam on Renewable Energy and an Optimistic Future
Sep 16, 2019
63 | Solo -- Finding Gravity Within Quantum Mechanics
Sep 09, 2019
62 | Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Societies and People
Sep 02, 2019
61 | Quassim Cassam on Intellectual Vices and What to Do About Them
Aug 26, 2019
60 | Lynne Kelly on Memory Palaces, Ancient and Modern
Aug 19, 2019
59 | Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics
Aug 12, 2019
58 | Seth MacFarlane on Using Science Fiction to Explore Humanity
Aug 05, 2019
57 | Astra Taylor on the Promise and Challenge of Democracy
Jul 29, 2019
56 | Kate Adamala on Creating Synthetic Life
Jul 22, 2019
55 | A Conversation with Rob Reid on Quantum Mechanics and Many Worlds
Jul 15, 2019
54 | Indre Viskontas on Music and the Brain
Jul 08, 2019
53 | Solo -- On Morality and Rationality
Jul 01, 2019
52 | Frank Lantz on the Logic and Emotion of Games
Jun 24, 2019
51 | Anthony Aguirre on Cosmology, Zen, Entropy, and Information
Jun 17, 2019
50 | Patricia Churchland on Conscience, Morality, and the Brain
Jun 10, 2019
49 | Nicholas Christakis on Humanity, Biology, and What Makes Us Good
Jun 03, 2019
48 | Marq de Villiers on Hell and Damnation
May 27, 2019
47 | Adam Rutherford on Humans, Animals, and Life in General
May 20, 2019
46 | Kate Darling on Our Connections with Robots
May 13, 2019
45 | Leonard Susskind on Quantum Information, Quantum Gravity, and Holography
May 06, 2019
44 | Antonio Damasio on Feelings, Thoughts, and the Evolution of Humanity
Apr 29, 2019
43 | Matthew Luczy on the Pleasures of Wine
Apr 22, 2019
42 | Natalya Bailey on Navigating Earth Orbit and Beyond
Apr 15, 2019
41 | Steven Strogatz on Synchronization, Networks, and the Emergence of Complex Behavior
Apr 08, 2019
40 | Adrienne Mayor on Gods and Robots in Ancient Mythology
Apr 01, 2019
39 | Malcolm MacIver on Sensing, Consciousness, and Imagination
Mar 25, 2019
38 | Alan Lightman on Transcendence, Science, and a Naturalist’s Sense of Meaning
Mar 18, 2019
37 | Edward Watts on the End of the Roman Republic and Lessons for Democracy
Mar 11, 2019
36 | David Albert on Quantum Measurement and the Problems with Many-Worlds
Mar 04, 2019
35 | Jessica Yellin on The Changing Ways We Get Our News
Feb 25, 2019
34 | Paul Bloom on Empathy, Rationality, Morality, and Cruelty
Feb 18, 2019
33 | James Ladyman on Reality, Metaphysics, and Complexity
Feb 11, 2019
32 | Naomi Oreskes on Climate Change and the Distortion of Scientific Facts
Feb 04, 2019
31 | Brian Greene on the Multiverse, Inflation, and the String Theory Landscape
Jan 28, 2019
30 | Derek Leben on Ethics for Robots and Artificial Intelligences
Jan 21, 2019
29 | Raychelle Burks on the Chemistry of Murder
Jan 14, 2019
28 | Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe
Jan 07, 2019
Holiday Message 2018
Dec 24, 2018
27 | Janna Levin on Black Holes, Chaos, and the Narrative of Science
Dec 17, 2018
26 | Ge Wang on Artful Design, Computers, and Music
Dec 10, 2018
25 | David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation
Dec 03, 2018
24 | Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar
Nov 26, 2018
23 | Lisa Aziz-Zadeh on Embodied Cognition, Mirror Neurons, and Empathy
Nov 19, 2018
22 | Joe Walston on Conservation, Urbanization, and the Way We Live on Earth
Nov 12, 2018
21 | Alex Rosenberg on Naturalism, History, and Theory of Mind
Nov 05, 2018
20 | Scott Derrickson on Cinema, Blockbusters, Horror, and Mystery
Oct 29, 2018
19 | Tyler Cowen on Maximizing Growth and Thinking for the Future
Oct 22, 2018
18 | Clifford Johnson on What's So Great About Superstring Theory
Oct 15, 2018
17 | Annalee Newitz on Science, Fiction, Economics, and Neurosis
Oct 08, 2018
16 | Coleen Murphy on Aging, Biology, and the Future
Oct 01, 2018
15 | David Poeppel on Thought, Language, and How to Understand the Brain
Sep 08, 2018
14 | Alta Charo on Bioethics and the Law
Sep 08, 2018
13 | Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the Internet
Sep 08, 2018
12 | Wynton Marsalis on Jazz, Time, and America
Sep 04, 2018
11 | Mike Brown on Killing Pluto and Replacing It with Planet 9
Aug 27, 2018
10 | Megan Rosenbloom on the Death Positive Movement
Aug 20, 2018
9 | Solo -- Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?
Aug 13, 2018
8 | Carl Zimmer on Heredity, DNA, and Editing Genes
Aug 06, 2018
7 | Yascha Mounk on Threats to Liberal Democracy
Jul 30, 2018
6 | Liv Boeree on Poker, Aliens, and Thinking in Probabilities
Jul 23, 2018
5 | Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life
Jul 16, 2018
4 | Anthony Pinn on Humanism, Theology, and the Black Community
Jul 12, 2018
3 | Alice Dreger on Sexuality, Truth, and Justice
Jul 11, 2018
2 | Carlo Rovelli on Quantum Mechanics, Spacetime, and Reality
Jul 10, 2018
1 | Carol Tavris on Mistakes, Justification, and Cognitive Dissonance
Jul 04, 2018
Welcome to the Mindscape Podcast!
Jul 01, 2018