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

Sean Carroll

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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
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