In October 2026, OpenAI announced that an internal AI system had produced a proof that the 3D Navier-Stokes equations can blow up in finite time—a Millennium Prize problem. Sean Carroll opens the…
Sean Carroll — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Sean Carroll has appeared on 5 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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5 In 1967, the poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote about living in "the first century of world wars," getting news from "various devices," and making poems "for others unseen and unborn." That line about…
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,…
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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