In 1759, Voltaire invented the word “optimism” for his novel Candide. Before that, the concept didn’t exist. For Stuart Firestein, a biologist and former chair of Columbia’s biology department,…
Sean Carroll — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Sean Carroll has appeared on 3 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
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3 The August 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape opens not with a philosophical puzzle or a physics update, but with a basketball bombshell: LeBron James has joined the Philadelphia 76ers.…
In the July 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape, Sean Carroll fields a wide range of questions, but a clear throughline emerges: the tension between our best scientific theories and the…
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