Sean Carroll's Mindscape
Mindscape provides a bridge to the biggest ideas in the universe, as shared by the most creative and intelligent thinkers.Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, and author of numerous books. Every week he talks to a guest who is a world expert in some fascinating subject, and they talk about it in a way that is both informal and deeply informative.Learn about the complex dynamics of social systems, the mystery of quantum superposition, the origin of...
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Episodes (443)
175 | William Ratcliff on Multicellularity, Physics, and Evolution
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174 | Tai-Danae Bradley on Algebra, Topology, Language, and Entropy
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AMA | November 2021
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173 | Sylvia Earle on the Oceans, the Planet, and People
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172 | David Goyer on Televising the Fall of the Galactic Empire
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171 | Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology
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170 | Priya Natarajan on Galaxies, Black Holes, and Cosmic Anomalies
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169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency
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AMA | October 2021
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168 | Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness
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167 | Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory, Physics, and Possibility
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166 | Betül Kaçar on Paleogenomics and Ancient Life
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165 | Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics, Luck, and Fairness
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AMA | September 2021
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164 | Herbert Gintis on Game Theory, Evolution, and Social Rationality
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163 | Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology
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162 | Leidy Klotz on Our Resistance to Subtractive Change
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161 | W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics
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160 | Edward Slingerland on Confucianism, Daoism, and Wu Wei
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AMA | August 2021
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159 | Mari Ruti on Lack, Love, and Psychoanalysis
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158 | David Wallace on the Arrow of Time
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157 | Elizabeth Strychalski on Synthetic Cells and the Rules of Biology
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156 | Catherine D’Ignazio on Data, Objectivity, and Bias
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155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics
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AMA | July 2021
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154 | Reza Aslan on Religion, Metaphor, and Meaning
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153 | John Preskill on Quantum Computers and What They’re Good For
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152 | Charis Kubrin on Criminology, Incarceration, and Hip-Hop
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151 | Jordan Ellenberg on the Mathematics of Political Boundaries
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AMA | June 2021
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150 | Simon DeDeo on How Explanations Work and Why They Sometimes Fail
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149 | Lee Smolin on Time, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality
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148 | Henry Farrell on Democracy as a Problem-Solving Mechanism
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147 | Rachel Laudan on Cuisine, Culture, and Empire
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AMA | May 2021
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146 | Emily Riehl on Topology, Categories, and the Future of Mathematics
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145 | Niall Ferguson on Histories, Networks, and Catastrophes
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144 | Solo: Are We Moving Beyond the Standard Model?
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143 | Julia Galef on Openness, Bias, and Rationality
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AMA | April 2021
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142 | Charlie Jane Anders on Stories and How to Write Them
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141 | Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World
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140 | Dean Buonomano on Time, Reality, and the Brain
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139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology
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138 | Daryl Morey on Analytics, Psychology, and Basketball
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AMA | March 2021
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137 | Justin Clarke-Doane on Mathematics, Morality, Objectivity, and Reality
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136 | Roderick Graham on Cyberspace, Race, and Cultural Conservatism
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135 | Shadi Bartsch on Plato, Vergil, Confucius, and Modernity
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