Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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 convers...
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AMA | October 2025
Welcome to the October 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones ask...
331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse
Certain features of our universe seem unnatural to us. These include "constants of nature" such as the cosmological constant and the mass of the Higgs...
330 | Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information
A characteristic of complex systems is that individual components combine to exhibit large-scale emergent behavior even when the components were not s...
329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge
Getting along in society requires that we mostly adhere to certainly shared norms and customs. Often it's not enough that we all know what the rules a...
328 | Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies
Like any machine, bodies occasionally break down, and it's natural to go in search of a replacement part. Ancient societies featured simple prosthetic...
AMA | September 2025
Welcome to the September 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones a...
327 | Cass Sunstein on Liberalism
"Liberalism," divorced from its particular connotations in this or that modern political context, refers broadly to a philosophy of individual rights,...
326 | Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets
In a relatively short period of time, exoplanets (planets around stars other than our Sun) have gone from an intriguing conjecture to an active field...
325 | Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixels, and the Great Digital Convergence
The world is becoming pixelated. As computers and other digital devices become ubiquitous, human knowledge and communication and information is gradua...
324 | Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research
It is not manifestly obvious that universities should be where most scholarly research is performed. One could imagine systems that separated out the...
AMA | August 2025
Welcome to the August 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones aski...
323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics
The search for a foundational theory of quantum mechanics that all physicists can agree on remains active. Over the last century a number of contender...
322 | Philip Pettit on Language, Agency, Politics, and Freedom
When we think of the capacities that distinguish humans from other species, we generally turn to intelligence and its byproducts, including our techno...
321 | David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory
Quantum field theory is the basis for our most successful theories of fundamental physics. And yet, there are things we don't understand about it. Som...
AMA | July 2025
Welcome to the July 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking...
320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe
Our universe started out looking very simple: hot, dense, smooth, rapidly expanding. According to our best current model, it will end up looking simpl...
319 | Bryan Van Norden on Philosophy From the Rest of the World
It is common to refer to philosophy as "a series of footnotes to Plato." But in the original quote, Alfred North Whitehead was more careful: he limite...
318 | Edward Miguel on the Developing Practice of Development Economics
Economics is seeing an upsurge in the importance of controlled, reproducible empirical studies. One area where this has had a great impact is on devel...
317 | Nicole Rust on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders
The human brain is extremely complicated, but decades of careful neuroscientific research have revealed quite a bit about how it works, including how...
AMA | June 2025
Welcome to the June 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking...
316 | Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper
Einstein's general theory of relativity, plus some reasonable assumptions about the universe and what it's made of, has a remarkable implication: that...
315 | Branden Fitelson on the Logic and Use of Probability
Every time you see an apple spontaneously break away from a tree, it falls downward. You therefore claim that there is a law of physics: apples fall d...
314 | Karen Lloyd on the Deep Underground Biosphere
There are living creatures dwelling deep below the surface of the Earth, as deep as we are able to drill. These hearty microorganisms are related to m...
313 | Eric Topol on the Changing Face of Medicine and Aging
Medical science is advancing at an astonishing rate. Today we talk with leading expert Eric Topol about two aspects of this story. First, the use of a...
AMA | May 2025
Welcome to the May 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking...
312 | Thomas Levenson on the Mutual History of Humans and Germs
The germ theory of disease is a crowning achievement of science, up there with modern physics, continental drift, and evolution via natural selection....
311 | Annaka Harris on Whether Consciousness is Fundamental
Questions about consciousness range from the precise and empirical -- what neurons fire when I have some particular experience -- to the deeply profou...
AMA | April 2025
Welcome to the April 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones askin...
310 | Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies
Cosmologists were, let us be honest, pretty stunned in 1998 when observations revealed that the universe is accelerating. There was an obvious plausib...
309 | Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information
Consciousness is easier to possess than to define. One thing we can do is to look into the brain and see what lights up when conscious awareness is ta...
308 | Alison Gopnik on Children, AI, and Modes of Thinking
We often study cognition in other species, in part to learn about modes of thinking that are different from our own. Today's guest, psychologist/philo...
AMA | March 2025
Welcome to the March 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones askin...
307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails
A lot of science goes into crafting the perfect cocktail. Balancing sweet and bitter notes, providing the right amount of aeration and dilution, getti...
306 | Helen Czerski on Our Energetic Oceans
It is commonplace to refer to the Earth's oceans as vast and largely unexplored. But we do understand some aspects, and improving that understanding i...
305 | Lilliana Mason on Polarization and Political Psychology
Political outcomes would be relatively simple to predict and understand if only people were well-informed, entirely rational, and perfectly self-inter...
Bonus | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter
The Trump administration, led by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, has proposed sweeping cuts to spending on science research her...
304 | James Evans on Innovation, Consolidation, and the Science of Science
It is a feature of many human activities - sports, cooking, music, interpersonal relations - that being able to do them well doesn't necessarily mean...
303 | AMA | February 2025
Welcome to the February 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones as...
303 | James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System
A typical human lifespan is approximately three billion heartbeats in duration. Lasting that long requires not only intrinsic stability, but an impres...
302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution
Randomness plays an important role in the evolution of life (as my evil twin will tell you). But random doesn't mean arbitrary. Biological organisms a...