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

Sean Carroll

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…

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372 | Erik Winfree on DNA Computers and Robots 2026-10-26 · 78m
371 | Kyle Harper on How Humans Have Shaped Life on Earth 2026-10-19 · 85m
Ask Me Anything | October 2026 2026-10-12 · 212m
370 | Daniel Akerib on a Faint Hint of Dark Matter 2026-10-03 · 76m
369 | Gregg Caruso on Living Well Without Free Will 2026-09-28 · 84m
368 | Elizabeth Alexander on Why Democracy Needs Imagination 2026-09-21 · 68m
Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | September 2026 2026-09-14 · 232m
367 | Jared Diamond on the Course of History and the Role of leaders 2026-09-07 · 77m
366 | Jim Al-Khalili on Time, Quantum, Biology, and Cosmology 2026-08-31 · 75m
365 | Vitor Cardoso on Why Black Holes Are Special 2026-08-24 · 66m
364 | Stuart Firestein on How Science Relies on Ignorance and Failure 2026-08-17 · 76m
363 | Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins 2026-08-10 · 112m
Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | August 2026 2026-08-03 · 238m
362 | Luis Bettencourt on the Universal Properties of Self-Organizing Cities 2026-07-27 · 80m
361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together 2026-07-20 · 76m
Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | July 2026 2026-07-13 · 243m
360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass 2026-07-06 · 90m
359 | Solo: Theories of Dark Energy 2026-06-29 · 116m
358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant 2026-06-22 · 120m
357 | Jeff Coller on mRNA, Vaccines, and Bespoke Therapeutics 2026-06-15 · 80m
356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity 2026-06-08 · 77m
AMA | June 2026 2026-06-01 · 237m
355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball 2026-05-24 · 104m
354 | Christian List on Free Will and Levels of Reality 2026-05-18 · 87m
353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested Markets 2026-05-11 · 72m
AMA | May 2026 2026-05-04 · 246m
352 | Bing Brunton on Connecting the Connectome to the Body 2026-04-27 · 74m
351 | Peter Singer on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures 2026-04-20 · 76m
350 | J. Eric Oliver on the Self and How to Know It 2026-04-13 · 81m
AMA | April 2026 2026-04-05 · 227m
349 | Daniel Harlow on What Quantum Gravity Teaches Us About Quantum Mechanics 2026-03-30 · 86m
348 | Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency 2026-03-23 · 75m
347 | Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on How Your Data Will Be Used Against You 2026-03-16 · 69m
346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and Play 2026-03-09 · 88m
AMA | March 2026 2026-03-02 · 233m
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe 2026-02-23 · 95m
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It 2026-02-16 · 81m
343 | Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought 2026-02-09 · 79m
AMA | Feb 2026 2026-02-02 · 190m
Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind 2026-01-26 · 97m
Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle 2026-01-19 · 73m
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters 2026-01-12 · 78m
Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology 2026-01-05 · 71m
Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University 2025-12-22 · 43m
AMA | December 2025 2025-12-15 · 217m
Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos 2025-12-08 · 86m
Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning 2025-12-01 · 78m
Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI 2025-11-24 · 74m
AMA | November 2025 2025-11-17 · 214m
Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe 2025-11-10 · 78m
Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens 2025-11-03 · 74m
Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them 2025-10-27 · 70m
Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music 2025-10-20 · 81m
AMA | October 2025 2025-10-13 · 217m
Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse 2025-10-06 · 115m
Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information 2025-09-29 · 72m
Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge 2025-09-22 · 77m
Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies 2025-09-15 · 67m
AMA | September 2025 2025-09-08 · 210m
Cass Sunstein on Liberalism 2025-09-01 · 70m
Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets 2025-08-25 · 72m
Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixels, and the Great Digital Convergence 2025-08-18 · 87m
Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research 2025-08-11 · 74m
AMA | August 2025 2025-08-04 · 220m
Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics 2025-07-28 · 178m
Philip Pettit on Language, Agency, Politics, and Freedom 2025-07-21 · 81m
David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory 2025-07-14 · 79m
AMA | July 2025 2025-07-07 · 243m
Solo: Complexity and the Universe 2025-06-30 · 135m
Bryan Van Norden on Philosophy From the Rest of the World 2025-06-23 · 73m
Edward Miguel on the Developing Practice of Development Economics 2025-06-16 · 81m
Nicole Rust on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders 2025-06-09 · 75m
AMA | June 2025 2025-06-02 · 203m
Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper 2025-05-26 · 89m
Branden Fitelson on the Logic and Use of Probability 2025-05-19 · 89m
Karen Lloyd on the Deep Underground Biosphere 2025-05-12 · 69m
Eric Topol on the Changing Face of Medicine and Aging 2025-05-05 · 72m
AMA | May 2025 2025-04-28 · 218m
Thomas Levenson on the Mutual History of Humans and Germs 2025-04-21 · 92m
Annaka Harris on Whether Consciousness is Fundamental 2025-04-14 · 70m
AMA | April 2025 2025-04-07 · 210m
Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies 2025-03-31 · 86m
Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information 2025-03-24 · 81m
Alison Gopnik on Children, AI, and Modes of Thinking 2025-03-17 · 70m
AMA | March 2025 2025-03-10 · 178m
Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails 2025-03-03 · 77m
Helen Czerski on Our Energetic Oceans 2025-02-24 · 72m
Lilliana Mason on Polarization and Political Psychology 2025-02-17 · 77m
Bonus | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter 2025-02-12 · 70m
James Evans on Innovation, Consolidation, and the Science of Science 2025-02-10 · 76m
AMA | February 2025 2025-02-03 · 224m
James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System 2025-01-27 · 68m
Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution 2025-01-20 · 91m
Tina Eliassi-Rad on Al, Networks, and Epistemic Instability 2025-01-13 · 69m
Solo: Does Time Exist? 2025-01-06 · 132m
Holiday Message | Hits and Misses 2024-12-23 · 121m
Michael Wong on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life 2024-12-16 · 73m
Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain 2024-12-09 · 69m
AMA | December 2024 2024-12-02 · 236m
Emily Wilson on Homer, Poetry, and Translation 2024-11-25 · 75m
Brandon Ogbunu on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution 2024-11-18 · 76m
Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality 2024-11-11 · 95m
AMA | November 2024 2024-11-04 · 231m
Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life 2024-10-28 · 72m
Doyne Farmer on Chaos, Crashes, and Economic Complexity 2024-10-21 · 71m
Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience 2024-10-14 · 71m
AMA | October 2024 2024-10-07 · 270m
Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging 2024-09-30 · 81m
Hahrie Han on Making Multicultural Democracy Work 2024-09-23 · 76m
Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments 2024-09-16 · 82m
Max Richter on the Meaning of Classical Music Today 2024-09-09 · 66m
AMA | September 2024 2024-09-02 · 231m
Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History 2024-08-26 · 93m
Blaise Agüera y Arcas on the Emergence of Replication and Computation 2024-08-19 · 81m
Nate Silver on Prediction, Risk, and Rationality 2024-08-12 · 71m
AMA | August 2024 2024-08-05 · 217m
Doris Tsao on How the Brain Turns Vision Into the World 2024-07-29 · 63m
Daron Acemoglu on Technology, Inequality, and Power 2024-07-22 · 78m
Joel David Hamkins on Puzzles of Reality and Infinity 2024-07-15 · 78m
Ask Me Anything | July 2024 2024-07-08 · 202m
Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution 2024-07-01 · 72m
François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence 2024-06-24 · 102m
Ellen Langer on Mindfulness and the Body 2024-06-17 · 72m
Listen Now: Wow in the World's Summer of Wow! 2024-06-11 · 6m
Kieran Healy on the Technology of Ranking People 2024-06-10 · 76m
AMA | June 2024 2024-06-03 · 239m
Cumrun Vafa on the Universe According to String Theory 2024-05-27 · 82m
Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting Our Climate 2024-05-20 · 80m
Solo: Quantum Fields, Particles, Forces, and Symmetries 2024-05-13 · 132m
AMA | May 2024 2024-05-06 · 215m
Gizem Gumuskaya on Building Robots from Human Cells 2024-04-29 · 70m
Stefanos Geroulanos on the Invention of Prehistory 2024-04-22 · 79m
Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People 2024-04-15 · 68m
AMA | April 2024 2024-04-08 · 194m
Claudia de Rham on Modifying General Relativity 2024-04-01 · 82m
Solo: The Coming Transition in How Humanity Lives 2024-03-25 · 129m
Sahar Heydari Fard on Complexity, Justice, and Social Dynamics 2024-03-18 · 71m
AMA | March 2024 2024-03-11 · 236m
Matt Strassler on Relativity, Fields, and the Language of Reality 2024-03-04 · 90m
Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia 2024-02-26 · 73m
Christoph Adami on How Information Makes Sense of Biology 2024-02-19 · 80m
AMA | February 2024 2024-02-12 · 205m
John Skrentny on How the Economy Mistreats STEM Workers 2024-02-05 · 80m
Sabine Stanley on What's Inside Planets 2024-01-29 · 73m
Chris Quigg on Symmetry and the Birth of the Standard Model 2024-01-22 · 86m
Eric Schwitzgebel on the Weirdness of the World 2024-01-15 · 80m
Sanjana Curtis on the Origins of the Elements 2024-01-08 · 67m
Ricard Solé on the Space of Cognitions 2024-01-01 · 70m
Holiday Message: Reflections on Immortality 2023-12-18 · 56m
Adam Frank on What Aliens Might Be Like 2023-12-11 · 79m
AMA | December 2023 2023-12-04 · 216m
Solo: AI Thinks Different 2023-11-27 · 81m
Derek Guy on the Theory and Practice of Dressing Well 2023-11-20 · 81m
Kelly and Zach Weinersmith on Building Cities on the Moon and Mars 2023-11-13 · 84m
AMA | November 2023 2023-11-06 · 260m
Michael Muthukrishna on Developing a Theory of Everyone 2023-10-30 · 77m
William Egginton on Kant, Heisenberg, and Borges 2023-10-23 · 67m
David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation 2023-10-16 · 102m
AMA | October 2023 2023-10-09 · 178m
Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive 2023-10-02 · 76m
Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity 2023-09-25 · 71m
Brendan Nyhan on Navigating the Information Ecosystem 2023-09-18 · 58m
Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds 2023-09-11 · 88m
AMA | September 2023 2023-09-04 · 243m
Yejin Choi on AI and Common Sense 2023-08-28 · 73m
Samuel Bowles on Economics, Cooperation, and Inequality 2023-08-21 · 80m
David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization 2023-08-14 · 69m
AMA | August 2023 2023-08-07 · 218m
Solo: The Crisis in Physics 2023-07-31 · 262m
Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation 2023-07-24 · 97m
Joseph Silk on Science on the Moon 2023-07-17 · 71m
David Krakauer on Complexity, Agency, and Information 2023-07-10 · 93m
AMA | July 2023 2023-07-03 · 185m
Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations 2023-06-26 · 94m
Andrew Pontzen on Simulations and the Universe 2023-06-19 · 86m
Brian Lowery on the Social Self 2023-06-12 · 71m
AMA | June 2023 2023-06-05 · 178m
Scott Shapiro on the Technology and Philosophy of Hacking 2023-05-29 · 88m
Brooke Harrington on Offshore Wealth as a Complex System 2023-05-22 · 78m
Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory 2023-05-15 · 69m
AMA | May 2023 2023-05-08 · 188m
Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind 2023-05-01 · 82m
Tobias Warnecke on Cellular Structure and Evolution 2023-04-24 · 67m
Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism 2023-04-17 · 73m
Amy Finkelstein on Adverse Selection and Hidden Information 2023-04-10 · 74m
Ask Me Anything | April 2023 2023-04-03 · 244m
Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism 2023-03-27 · 81m
Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks 2023-03-20 · 118m
Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology 2023-03-13 · 72m
AMA | March 2023 2023-03-06 · 181m
Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Authenticity 2023-02-27 · 77m
Molly Crockett on the Psychology of Morality 2023-02-20 · 72m
Johanna Hoffman on Speculative Futures of Cities 2023-02-13 · 73m
AMA | February 2023 2023-02-06 · 188m
Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency 2023-01-30 · 82m
Wondery Presents: Frozen Head 2023-01-24 · 4m
Edward Tufte on Data, Design, and Truth 2023-01-23 · 76m
Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are 2023-01-16 · 71m
Introducing SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow 2023-01-10 · 6m
Andrew Strominger on Quantum Gravity and the Real World 2023-01-09 · 85m
Adam Bulley on How Mental Time Travel Makes Us Human 2023-01-02 · 81m
Holiday Message 2022: Thinking Really Slowly 2022-12-19 · 48m
Lara Buchak on Risk and Rationality 2022-12-12 · 77m
AMA | December 2022 2022-12-05 · 196m
Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn on the Neuroscience and Philosophy of Curiosity 2022-11-28 · 63m
Raphael Bousso on Black Holes and the Holographic Universe 2022-11-21 · 82m
Margaret Levi on Moral Political Economy 2022-11-14 · 81m
AMA | November 2022 2022-11-07 · 180m
Introducing - The Vanished 2022-11-01 · 6m
John Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy 2022-10-31 · 71m
Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld 2022-10-24 · 95m
Antonio Padilla on Large Numbers and the Scope of the Universe 2022-10-17 · 76m
AMA | October 2022 2022-10-10 · 181m
Introducing - The ReWatcher: Buffy The Vampire Slayer 2022-10-03 · 5m
Timiebi Aganaba on Law and Governance in Space 2022-10-03 · 76m
Chiara Mingarelli on Searching for Black Holes with Pulsars 2022-09-26 · 87m
Solo: Secrets of Einstein's Equation 2022-09-19 · 111m
Randall Munroe on Imagining What If...? 2022-09-12 · 68m
Brad DeLong on Why the 20th Century Fell Short of Utopia 2022-09-05 · 84m
AMA | September 2022 2022-08-29 · 211m
Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music 2022-08-22 · 71m
William MacAskill on Maximizing Good in the Present and Future 2022-08-15 · 102m
Simon Conway Morris on Evolution, Convergence, and Theism 2022-08-08 · 77m
AMA | August 2022 2022-08-01 · 187m
John Quiggin on Interest Rates and the Information Economy 2022-07-25 · 79m
John Asher Johnson on Hunting for Exoplanets 2022-07-18 · 75m
Introducing: Who Killed Daphne? 2022-07-11 · 6m
N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists 2022-07-11 · 84m
AMA | July 2022 2022-07-04 · 206m
Andrew Papachristos on the Network Theory of Gun Violence 2022-06-27 · 75m
Wondery Presents: The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakley 2022-06-20 · 6m
Ed Yong on How Animals Sense the World 2022-06-20 · 69m
AMA | June 2022 2022-06-13 · 185m
Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse 2022-06-06 · 135m
Elizabeth Cohen on Time and Other Political Values 2022-05-30 · 73m
Nick Lane on Powering Biology 2022-05-23 · 86m
Catherine Brinkley on the Science of Cities 2022-05-16 · 68m
AMA | May 2022 2022-05-12 · 216m
Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect 2022-05-09 · 77m
Richard Dawkins on Flight and Other Evolutionary Achievements 2022-05-02 · 79m
Frans de Waal on Culture and Gender in Primates 2022-04-25 · 68m
Daniels on Everything, Everywhere, All at Once 2022-04-18 · 69m
AMA | April 2022 2022-04-14 · 207m
Nicole Yunger Halpern on Quantum Steampunk Thermodynamics 2022-04-11 · 77m
Jane McGonigal on How to Imagine the Future 2022-04-04 · 82m
Lea Goentoro on Regrowing Limbs 2022-03-28 · 64m
Brian Klaas on Power and the Temptation of Corruption 2022-03-21 · 83m
AMA | March 2022 2022-03-17 · 199m
Arik Kershenbaum on What Aliens Will Be Like 2022-03-14 · 81m
Andrew Leigh on the Politics of Looming Disasters 2022-03-07 · 81m
Sherry Turkle on How Technology Affects Our Humanity 2022-02-28 · 72m
Arvid Ågren on the Gene's-Eye View of Evolution 2022-02-21 · 86m
Gary Marcus on Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense 2022-02-14 · 84m
AMA | February 2022 2022-02-10 · 256m
Michael Dine on Supersymmetry, Anthropics, and the Future of Particle Physics 2022-02-07 · 100m
Sally Haslanger on Social Construction and Critical Theory 2022-01-31 · 98m
Peter Dodds on Quantifying the Shape of Stories 2022-01-24 · 77m
Camilla Pang on Instructions for Being Human 2022-01-17 · 64m
David Reich on Genetics and Ancient Humanity 2022-01-10 · 73m
Jody Azzouni on What Is and Isn't Real 2022-01-03 · 75m
Holiday Message 2021 | On Disciplines & Cocktails 2021-12-20 · 59m
AMA | December 2021 2021-12-15 · 218m
Monika Schleier-Smith on Cold Atoms and Emergent Spacetime 2021-12-13 · 71m
Joshua Greene on Morality, Psychology, and Trolley Problems 2021-12-06 · 86m
William Ratcliff on Multicellularity, Physics, and Evolution 2021-11-29 · 87m
Tai-Danae Bradley on Algebra, Topology, Language, and Entropy 2021-11-22 · 82m
AMA | November 2021 2021-11-17 · 235m
Sylvia Earle on the Oceans, the Planet, and People 2021-11-15 · 72m
Introducing: Operator 2021-11-11 · 6m
David Goyer on Televising the Fall of the Galactic Empire 2021-11-08 · 77m
Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology 2021-11-01 · 87m
Priya Natarajan on Galaxies, Black Holes, and Cosmic Anomalies 2021-10-25 · 88m
C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency 2021-10-18 · 84m
AMA | October 2021 2021-10-14 · 179m
Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness 2021-10-11 · 85m
Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory, Physics, and Possibility 2021-10-04 · 95m
Betül Kaçar on Paleogenomics and Ancient Life 2021-09-27 · 74m
Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics, Luck, and Fairness 2021-09-20 · 85m
AMA | September 2021 2021-09-16 · 219m
Herbert Gintis on Game Theory, Evolution, and Social Rationality 2021-09-13 · 90m
Introducing: 9/12 2021-09-08 · 6m
Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology 2021-09-06 · 92m
Leidy Klotz on Our Resistance to Subtractive Change 2021-08-30 · 74m
W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics 2021-08-23 · 96m
Edward Slingerland on Confucianism, Daoism, and Wu Wei 2021-08-16 · 84m
AMA | August 2021 2021-08-12 · 191m
Mari Ruti on Lack, Love, and Psychoanalysis 2021-08-09 · 110m
David Wallace on the Arrow of Time 2021-08-02 · 108m
Elizabeth Strychalski on Synthetic Cells and the Rules of Biology 2021-07-26 · 78m
Catherine D'Ignazio on Data, Objectivity, and Bias 2021-07-19 · 88m
Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics 2021-07-12 · 161m
AMA | July 2021 2021-07-09 · 229m
Reza Aslan on Religion, Metaphor, and Meaning 2021-07-05 · 86m
John Preskill on Quantum Computers and What They're Good For 2021-06-28 · 93m
Introducing: One Hundred Percent with Marcus Lemonis 2021-06-23 · 5m
Charis Kubrin on Criminology, Incarceration, and Hip-Hop 2021-06-21 · 80m
Jordan Ellenberg on the Mathematics of Political Boundaries 2021-06-14 · 84m
AMA | June 2021 2021-06-10 · 199m
Simon DeDeo on How Explanations Work and Why They Sometimes Fail 2021-06-07 · 93m
Lee Smolin on Time, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality 2021-05-31 · 89m
Henry Farrell on Democracy as a Problem-Solving Mechanism 2021-05-24 · 87m
Rachel Laudan on Cuisine, Culture, and Empire 2021-05-17 · 77m
AMA | May 2021 2021-05-13 · 179m
Emily Riehl on Topology, Categories, and the Future of Mathematics 2021-05-10 · 77m
Niall Ferguson on Histories, Networks, and Catastrophes 2021-05-03 · 85m
Solo: Are We Moving Beyond the Standard Model? 2021-04-26 · 72m
Julia Galef on Openness, Bias, and Rationality 2021-04-19 · 92m
AMA | April 2021 2021-04-14 · 162m
Charlie Jane Anders on Stories and How to Write Them 2021-04-12 · 86m
Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World 2021-04-05 · 78m
Dean Buonomano on Time, Reality, and the Brain 2021-03-29 · 88m
Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology 2021-03-22 · 79m
Daryl Morey on Analytics, Psychology, and Basketball 2021-03-15 · 77m
AMA | March 2021 2021-03-10 · 191m
Justin Clarke-Doane on Mathematics, Morality, Objectivity, and Reality 2021-03-08 · 93m
Roderick Graham on Cyberspace, Race, and Cultural Conservatism 2021-03-01 · 83m
Introducing Against the Odds 2021-02-24 · 7m
Shadi Bartsch on Plato, Vergil, Confucius, and Modernity 2021-02-22 · 80m
AMA | February 2021 2021-02-17 · 174m
Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do 2021-02-15 · 89m
Ziya Tong on Realities We Don't See 2021-02-08 · 98m
Bonus | AIP Oral History Interview 2021-02-04 · 242m
Michael Levin on Growth, Form, Information, and the Self 2021-02-01 · 82m
Avi Loeb on Taking Aliens Seriously 2021-01-25 · 101m
Frank Wilczek on the Present and Future of Fundamental Physics 2021-01-18 · 76m
Solo: Democracy in America 2021-01-11 · 104m
Joseph Henrich on the Weirdness of the West 2021-01-04 · 87m
Holiday Message 2020 | The Screwy Universe 2020-12-21 · 91m
Erich Jarvis on Language, Birds, and People 2020-12-14 · 76m
AMA | December 2020 2020-12-09 · 204m
David Stasavage on the Origin and History of Democracy 2020-12-07 · 86m
David Haig on the Evolution of Meaning from Darwin to Derrida 2020-11-30 · 75m
Solo: How Time Travel Could and Should Work 2020-11-23 · 162m
AMA | November 2020 2020-11-20 · 192m
Lisa Feldman Barrett on Emotions, Actions, and the Brain 2020-11-16 · 77m
David Eagleman on Tapping Into the Livewired Brain 2020-11-09 · 77m
Cornel West on What Democracy Is and Should Be 2020-11-02 · 82m
Wondery Presents: Dr. Death Season 2 2020-10-27 · 4m
Jeremy England on Biology, Thermodynamics, and the Bible 2020-10-26 · 89m
Musa al-Gharbi on the Value of Intellectual Diversity 2020-10-19 · 76m
Adam Riess on the Expansion of the Universe and a Crisis in Cosmology 2020-10-12 · 78m
Sean B. Carroll on Randomness and the Course of Evolution 2020-10-05 · 81m
Teresa Bejan on Free Speech, Civility, and Toleration 2020-09-28 · 104m
Netta Engelhardt on Black Hole Information, Wormholes, and Quantum Gravity 2020-09-21 · 87m
Angela Chen on Asexuality in a Sex-Preoccupied World 2020-09-14 · 69m
Cailin O'Connor on Game Theory, Evolution, and the Origins of Unfairness 2020-09-07 · 80m
Fyodor Urnov on Gene Editing, CRISPR, and Human Engineering 2020-08-31 · 80m
Nick Bostrom on Anthropic Selection and Living in a Simulation 2020-08-24 · 81m
Neil Johnson on Complexity, Conflict, and Infodemiology 2020-08-17 · 84m
Jason Torchinsky on Our Self-Driving Future 2020-08-10 · 78m
Carl Bergstrom on Information, Disinformation, and Bullshit 2020-08-03 · 84m
Russ Shafer-Landau on the Reality of Morality 2020-07-27 · 91m
Stuart Bartlett on What "Life" Means 2020-07-20 · 86m
Ann-Sophie Barwich on the Science and Philosophy of Smell 2020-07-13 · 78m
David Rosen and Scott Miles on the Neuroscience of Music and Creativity 2020-07-06 · 86m
J. Kenji López-Alt on Cooking As and With Science 2020-06-29 · 76m
Maria Konnikova on Poker, Psychology, and Reason 2020-06-22 · 80m
David Baltimore on the Mysteries of Viruses 2020-06-15 · 74m
Solo | Life and Its Meaning 2020-06-08 · 93m
Scott Aaronson on Complexity, Computation, and Quantum Gravity 2020-06-01 · 113m
Olga Khazan on Living and Flourishing While Being Weird 2020-05-25 · 62m
John Danaher on Our Coming Automated Utopia 2020-05-18 · 83m
Lina Necib on What and Where the Dark Matter Is 2020-05-11 · 82m
Liam Kofi Bright on Knowledge, Truth, and Science 2020-05-04 · 96m
Stuart Russell on Making Artificial Intelligence Compatible with Humans 2020-04-27 · 87m
Rae Wynn-Grant on Bears, Humans, and Other Predators 2020-04-20 · 62m
Kevin Hand on Life Elsewhere in the Solar System 2020-04-13 · 116m
Scott Barry Kaufman on the Psychology of Transcendence 2020-04-06 · 79m
David Kaiser on Science, Money, and Power 2020-03-30 · 95m
Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time 2020-03-23 · 89m
Tara Smith on Coronavirus, Pandemics, and What We Can Do 2020-03-18 · 81m
Neil Shubin on Evolution, Genes, and Dramatic Transitions 2020-03-16 · 93m
Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy 2020-03-09 · 90m
Martin Rees on Threats to Humanity, Prospects for Posthumanity, and Life in the Universe 2020-03-02 · 100m
L.A. Paul on Transformative Experiences and Your Future Selves 2020-02-24 · 74m
Suresh Naidu on Capitalism, Monopsony, and Inequality 2020-02-17 · 87m
Kwame Anthony Appiah on Identity, Stories, and Cosmopolitanism 2020-02-10 · 99m
Robin Carhart-Harris on Psychedelics and the Brain 2020-02-03 · 78m
Ezra Klein on Politics, Polarization, and Identity 2020-01-27 · 82m
Jenann Ismael on Connecting Physics to the World of Experience 2020-01-20 · 87m
Sara Imari Walker on Information and the Origin of Life 2020-01-13 · 83m
Daniel Dennett on Minds, Patterns, and the Scientific Image 2020-01-06 · 122m
Holiday Message 2019: On Publishing Books 2019-12-22 · 66m
Azra Raza on The Way We Should Fight Cancer 2019-12-16 · 82m
Ned Hall on Possible Worlds and the Laws of Nature 2019-12-09 · 86m
Max Tegmark on Reality, Simulation, and the Multiverse 2019-12-02 · 72m
Stephen Greenblatt on Stories, History, and Cultural Poetics 2019-11-25 · 66m
Grimes (c) on Music, Creativity, and Digital Personae 2019-11-18 · 78m
César Hidalgo on Information in Societies, Economies, and the Universe 2019-11-11 · 77m
Philip Goff on Consciousness Everywhere 2019-11-04 · 95m
Katie Mack on How the Universe Will End 2019-10-28 · 83m
Cory Doctorow on Technology, Monopoly, and the Future of the Internet 2019-10-21 · 78m
Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Common Sense 2019-10-14 · 82m
Kate Jeffery on Entropy, Complexity, and Evolution 2019-10-07 · 73m
Will Wilkinson on Partisan Polarization and the Urban/Rural Divide 2019-09-30 · 113m
Michael Mann on Why Our Climate Is Changing and How We Know 2019-09-23 · 77m
Ramez Naam on Renewable Energy and an Optimistic Future 2019-09-16 · 77m
Solo -- Finding Gravity Within Quantum Mechanics 2019-09-09 · 110m
Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Societies and People 2019-09-02 · 72m
Quassim Cassam on Intellectual Vices and What to Do About Them 2019-08-26 · 70m
Lynne Kelly on Memory Palaces, Ancient and Modern 2019-08-19 · 76m
Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics 2019-08-12 · 100m
Seth MacFarlane on Using Science Fiction to Explore Humanity 2019-08-05 · 72m
Astra Taylor on the Promise and Challenge of Democracy 2019-07-29 · 84m
Kate Adamala on Creating Synthetic Life 2019-07-22 · 72m
A Conversation with Rob Reid on Quantum Mechanics and Many Worlds 2019-07-15 · 86m
Indre Viskontas on Music and the Brain 2019-07-08 · 75m
Solo -- On Morality and Rationality 2019-07-01 · 125m
Frank Lantz on the Logic and Emotion of Games 2019-06-24 · 65m
Anthony Aguirre on Cosmology, Zen, Entropy, and Information 2019-06-17 · 92m
Patricia Churchland on Conscience, Morality, and the Brain 2019-06-10 · 72m
Nicholas Christakis on Humanity, Biology, and What Makes Us Good 2019-06-03 · 115m
Marq de Villiers on Hell and Damnation 2019-05-27 · 71m
Adam Rutherford on Humans, Animals, and Life in General 2019-05-20 · 98m
Kate Darling on Our Connections with Robots 2019-05-13 · 67m
Leonard Susskind on Quantum Information, Quantum Gravity, and Holography 2019-05-06 · 74m
Antonio Damasio on Feelings, Thoughts, and the Evolution of Humanity 2019-04-29 · 72m
Matthew Luczy on the Pleasures of Wine 2019-04-22 · 106m
Natalya Bailey on Navigating Earth Orbit and Beyond 2019-04-15 · 60m
Steven Strogatz on Synchronization, Networks, and the Emergence of Complex Behavior 2019-04-08 · 75m
Adrienne Mayor on Gods and Robots in Ancient Mythology 2019-04-01 · 63m
Malcolm MacIver on Sensing, Consciousness, and Imagination 2019-03-25 · 80m
Alan Lightman on Transcendence, Science, and a Naturalist's Sense of Meaning 2019-03-18 · 77m
Edward Watts on the End of the Roman Republic and Lessons for Democracy 2019-03-11 · 91m
David Albert on Quantum Measurement and the Problems with Many-Worlds 2019-03-04 · 103m
Jessica Yellin on The Changing Ways We Get Our News 2019-02-25 · 69m
Paul Bloom on Empathy, Rationality, Morality, and Cruelty 2019-02-18 · 71m
James Ladyman on Reality, Metaphysics, and Complexity 2019-02-11 · 67m
Naomi Oreskes on Climate Change and the Distortion of Scientific Facts 2019-02-04 · 70m
Brian Greene on the Multiverse, Inflation, and the String Theory Landscape 2019-01-28 · 72m
Derek Leben on Ethics for Robots and Artificial Intelligences 2019-01-21 · 89m
Raychelle Burks on the Chemistry of Murder 2019-01-14 · 75m
Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe 2019-01-07 · 95m
Holiday Message 2018 2018-12-24 · 45m
Janna Levin on Black Holes, Chaos, and the Narrative of Science 2018-12-17 · 69m
Ge Wang on Artful Design, Computers, and Music 2018-12-10 · 71m
David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation 2018-12-03 · 82m
Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar 2018-11-26 · 80m
Lisa Aziz-Zadeh on Embodied Cognition, Mirror Neurons, and Empathy 2018-11-19 · 67m
Joe Walston on Conservation, Urbanization, and the Way We Live on Earth 2018-11-12 · 88m
Alex Rosenberg on Naturalism, History, and Theory of Mind 2018-11-05 · 81m
Scott Derrickson on Cinema, Blockbusters, Horror, and Mystery 2018-10-29 · 83m
Tyler Cowen on Maximizing Growth and Thinking for the Future 2018-10-22 · 60m
Clifford Johnson on What's So Great About Superstring Theory 2018-10-15 · 72m
Annalee Newitz on Science, Fiction, Economics, and Neurosis 2018-10-08 · 72m
Coleen Murphy on Aging, Biology, and the Future 2018-10-01 · 64m
David Poeppel on Thought, Language, and How to Understand the Brain 2018-09-08 · 84m
Alta Charo on Bioethics and the Law 2018-09-08 · 69m
Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the Internet 2018-09-08 · 67m
Wynton Marsalis on Jazz, Time, and America 2018-09-04 · 62m
Mike Brown on Killing Pluto and Replacing It with Planet 9 2018-08-27 · 78m
Megan Rosenbloom on the Death Positive Movement 2018-08-20 · 70m
Solo -- Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing? 2018-08-13 · 82m
Carl Zimmer on Heredity, DNA, and Editing Genes 2018-08-06 · 91m
Yascha Mounk on Threats to Liberal Democracy 2018-07-30 · 65m
Liv Boeree on Poker, Aliens, and Thinking in Probabilities 2018-07-23 · 70m
Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life 2018-07-16 · 84m
Anthony Pinn on Humanism, Theology, and the Black Community 2018-07-12 · 61m
Alice Dreger on Sexuality, Truth, and Justice 2018-07-11 · 81m
Carlo Rovelli on Quantum Mechanics, Spacetime, and Reality 2018-07-10 · 72m
Carol Tavris on Mistakes, Justification, and Cognitive Dissonance 2018-07-04 · 71m
Welcome to the Mindscape Podcast! 2018-07-01 · 16m
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