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 conversations with some of the most interesting thinkers in the world. From neuroscientists and engineers to authors and television producers, Sean and his guests talk about the biggest ideas in science, philosophy, culture and much more.
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366 | Jim Al-Khalili on Time, Quantum, Biology, and Cosmology
Aug 31, 2026
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365 | Vitor Cardoso on Why Black Holes Are Special
Aug 24, 2026
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364 | Stuart Firestein on How Science Relies on Ignorance and Failure
Aug 17, 2026
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363 | Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins
Aug 10, 2026
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Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | August 2026
Aug 3, 2026
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362 | Luis Bettencourt on the Universal Properties of Self-Organizing Cities
Jul 27, 2026
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361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together
Jul 20, 2026
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Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | July 2026
Jul 13, 2026
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360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass
Jul 6, 2026
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359 | Solo: Theories of Dark Energy
Jun 29, 2026
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358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant
Jun 22, 2026
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357 | Jeff Coller on mRNA, Vaccines, and Bespoke Therapeutics
Jun 15, 2026
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356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity
Jun 8, 2026
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AMA | June 2026
Jun 1, 2026
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355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball
May 24, 2026
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354 | Christian List on Free Will and Levels of Reality
May 18, 2026
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353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested Markets
May 11, 2026
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AMA | May 2026
May 4, 2026
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352 | Bing Brunton on Connecting the Connectome to the Body
Apr 27, 2026
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351 | Peter Singer on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures
Apr 20, 2026
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350 | J. Eric Oliver on the Self and How to Know It
Apr 13, 2026
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AMA | April 2026
Apr 5, 2026
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349 | Daniel Harlow on What Quantum Gravity Teaches Us About Quantum Mechanics
Mar 30, 2026
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348 | Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency
Mar 23, 2026
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347 | Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on How Your Data Will Be Used Against You
Mar 16, 2026
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346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and Play
Mar 9, 2026
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AMA | March 2026
Mar 2, 2026
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345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe
Feb 23, 2026
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344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It
Feb 16, 2026
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343 | Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought
Feb 9, 2026
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AMA | Feb 2026
Feb 2, 2026
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Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind
Jan 26, 2026
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Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle
Jan 19, 2026
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters
Jan 12, 2026
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Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology
Jan 5, 2026
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Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University
Dec 22, 2025
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AMA | December 2025
Dec 15, 2025
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Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos
Dec 8, 2025
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Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning
Dec 1, 2025
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Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI
Nov 24, 2025
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AMA | November 2025
Nov 17, 2025
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Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe
Nov 10, 2025
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Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens
Nov 3, 2025
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Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them
Oct 27, 2025
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Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music
Oct 20, 2025
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AMA | October 2025
Oct 13, 2025
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Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse
Oct 6, 2025
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Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information
Sep 29, 2025
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Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge
Sep 22, 2025
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Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies
Sep 15, 2025
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AMA | September 2025
Sep 8, 2025
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Cass Sunstein on Liberalism
Sep 1, 2025
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Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets
Aug 25, 2025
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Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixels, and the Great Digital Convergence
Aug 18, 2025
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Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research
Aug 11, 2025
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AMA | August 2025
Aug 4, 2025
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Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics
Jul 28, 2025
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Philip Pettit on Language, Agency, Politics, and Freedom
Jul 21, 2025
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David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory
Jul 14, 2025
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AMA | July 2025
Jul 7, 2025
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Solo: Complexity and the Universe
Jun 30, 2025
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Bryan Van Norden on Philosophy From the Rest of the World
Jun 23, 2025
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Edward Miguel on the Developing Practice of Development Economics
Jun 16, 2025
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Nicole Rust on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders
Jun 9, 2025
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AMA | June 2025
Jun 2, 2025
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Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper
May 26, 2025
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Branden Fitelson on the Logic and Use of Probability
May 19, 2025
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Karen Lloyd on the Deep Underground Biosphere
May 12, 2025
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Eric Topol on the Changing Face of Medicine and Aging
May 5, 2025
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AMA | May 2025
Apr 28, 2025
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Thomas Levenson on the Mutual History of Humans and Germs
Apr 21, 2025
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Annaka Harris on Whether Consciousness is Fundamental
Apr 14, 2025
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AMA | April 2025
Apr 7, 2025
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Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies
Mar 31, 2025
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Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information
Mar 24, 2025
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Alison Gopnik on Children, AI, and Modes of Thinking
Mar 17, 2025
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AMA | March 2025
Mar 10, 2025
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Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails
Mar 3, 2025
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Helen Czerski on Our Energetic Oceans
Feb 24, 2025
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Lilliana Mason on Polarization and Political Psychology
Feb 17, 2025
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Bonus | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter
Feb 12, 2025
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James Evans on Innovation, Consolidation, and the Science of Science
Feb 10, 2025
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AMA | February 2025
Feb 3, 2025
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James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System
Jan 27, 2025
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Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution
Jan 20, 2025
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Tina Eliassi-Rad on Al, Networks, and Epistemic Instability
Jan 13, 2025
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Solo: Does Time Exist?
Jan 6, 2025
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Holiday Message | Hits and Misses
Dec 23, 2024
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Michael Wong on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life
Dec 16, 2024
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Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain
Dec 9, 2024
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AMA | December 2024
Dec 2, 2024
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Emily Wilson on Homer, Poetry, and Translation
Nov 25, 2024
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Brandon Ogbunu on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution
Nov 18, 2024
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Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality
Nov 11, 2024
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AMA | November 2024
Nov 4, 2024
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Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life
Oct 28, 2024
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Doyne Farmer on Chaos, Crashes, and Economic Complexity
Oct 21, 2024
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Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience
Oct 14, 2024
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AMA | October 2024
Oct 7, 2024
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Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging
Sep 30, 2024
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Hahrie Han on Making Multicultural Democracy Work
Sep 23, 2024
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Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments
Sep 16, 2024
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Max Richter on the Meaning of Classical Music Today
Sep 9, 2024
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AMA | September 2024
Sep 2, 2024
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Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History
Aug 26, 2024
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas on the Emergence of Replication and Computation
Aug 19, 2024
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Nate Silver on Prediction, Risk, and Rationality
Aug 12, 2024
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AMA | August 2024
Aug 5, 2024
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Doris Tsao on How the Brain Turns Vision Into the World
Jul 29, 2024
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Daron Acemoglu on Technology, Inequality, and Power
Jul 22, 2024
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Joel David Hamkins on Puzzles of Reality and Infinity
Jul 15, 2024
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Ask Me Anything | July 2024
Jul 8, 2024
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Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution
Jul 1, 2024
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François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence
Jun 24, 2024
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Ellen Langer on Mindfulness and the Body
Jun 17, 2024
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Listen Now: Wow in the World's Summer of Wow!
Jun 11, 2024
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Kieran Healy on the Technology of Ranking People
Jun 10, 2024
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AMA | June 2024
Jun 3, 2024
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Cumrun Vafa on the Universe According to String Theory
May 27, 2024
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Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting Our Climate
May 20, 2024
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Solo: Quantum Fields, Particles, Forces, and Symmetries
May 13, 2024
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AMA | May 2024
May 6, 2024
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Gizem Gumuskaya on Building Robots from Human Cells
Apr 29, 2024
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Stefanos Geroulanos on the Invention of Prehistory
Apr 22, 2024
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Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People
Apr 15, 2024
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AMA | April 2024
Apr 8, 2024
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Claudia de Rham on Modifying General Relativity
Apr 1, 2024
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Solo: The Coming Transition in How Humanity Lives
Mar 25, 2024
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Sahar Heydari Fard on Complexity, Justice, and Social Dynamics
Mar 18, 2024
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AMA | March 2024
Mar 11, 2024
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Matt Strassler on Relativity, Fields, and the Language of Reality
Mar 4, 2024
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Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia
Feb 26, 2024
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Christoph Adami on How Information Makes Sense of Biology
Feb 19, 2024
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AMA | February 2024
Feb 12, 2024
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John Skrentny on How the Economy Mistreats STEM Workers
Feb 5, 2024
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Sabine Stanley on What's Inside Planets
Jan 29, 2024
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Chris Quigg on Symmetry and the Birth of the Standard Model
Jan 22, 2024
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Eric Schwitzgebel on the Weirdness of the World
Jan 15, 2024
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Sanjana Curtis on the Origins of the Elements
Jan 8, 2024
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Ricard Solé on the Space of Cognitions
Jan 1, 2024
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Holiday Message: Reflections on Immortality
Dec 18, 2023
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Adam Frank on What Aliens Might Be Like
Dec 11, 2023
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AMA | December 2023
Dec 4, 2023
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Solo: AI Thinks Different
Nov 27, 2023
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Derek Guy on the Theory and Practice of Dressing Well
Nov 20, 2023
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Kelly and Zach Weinersmith on Building Cities on the Moon and Mars
Nov 13, 2023
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AMA | November 2023
Nov 6, 2023
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Michael Muthukrishna on Developing a Theory of Everyone
Oct 30, 2023
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William Egginton on Kant, Heisenberg, and Borges
Oct 23, 2023
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David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation
Oct 16, 2023
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AMA | October 2023
Oct 9, 2023
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Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive
Oct 2, 2023
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Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity
Sep 25, 2023
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Brendan Nyhan on Navigating the Information Ecosystem
Sep 18, 2023
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Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds
Sep 11, 2023
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AMA | September 2023
Sep 4, 2023
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Yejin Choi on AI and Common Sense
Aug 28, 2023
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Samuel Bowles on Economics, Cooperation, and Inequality
Aug 21, 2023
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David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization
Aug 14, 2023
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AMA | August 2023
Aug 7, 2023
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Solo: The Crisis in Physics
Jul 31, 2023
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Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation
Jul 24, 2023
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Joseph Silk on Science on the Moon
Jul 17, 2023
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David Krakauer on Complexity, Agency, and Information
Jul 10, 2023
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AMA | July 2023
Jul 3, 2023
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Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations
Jun 26, 2023
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Andrew Pontzen on Simulations and the Universe
Jun 19, 2023
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Brian Lowery on the Social Self
Jun 12, 2023
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AMA | June 2023
Jun 5, 2023
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Scott Shapiro on the Technology and Philosophy of Hacking
May 29, 2023
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Brooke Harrington on Offshore Wealth as a Complex System
May 22, 2023
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Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory
May 15, 2023
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AMA | May 2023
May 8, 2023
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Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind
May 1, 2023
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Tobias Warnecke on Cellular Structure and Evolution
Apr 24, 2023
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Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism
Apr 17, 2023
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Amy Finkelstein on Adverse Selection and Hidden Information
Apr 10, 2023
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Ask Me Anything | April 2023
Apr 3, 2023
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Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Mar 27, 2023
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Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks
Mar 20, 2023
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Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology
Mar 13, 2023
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AMA | March 2023
Mar 6, 2023
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Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Authenticity
Feb 27, 2023
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Molly Crockett on the Psychology of Morality
Feb 20, 2023
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Johanna Hoffman on Speculative Futures of Cities
Feb 13, 2023
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AMA | February 2023
Feb 6, 2023
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Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
Jan 30, 2023
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Wondery Presents: Frozen Head
Jan 24, 2023
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Edward Tufte on Data, Design, and Truth
Jan 23, 2023
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Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are
Jan 16, 2023
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Introducing SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow
Jan 10, 2023
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Andrew Strominger on Quantum Gravity and the Real World
Jan 9, 2023
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Adam Bulley on How Mental Time Travel Makes Us Human
Jan 2, 2023
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Holiday Message 2022: Thinking Really Slowly
Dec 19, 2022
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Lara Buchak on Risk and Rationality
Dec 12, 2022
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AMA | December 2022
Dec 5, 2022
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Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn on the Neuroscience and Philosophy of Curiosity
Nov 28, 2022
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Raphael Bousso on Black Holes and the Holographic Universe
Nov 21, 2022
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Margaret Levi on Moral Political Economy
Nov 14, 2022
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AMA | November 2022
Nov 7, 2022
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Introducing - The Vanished
Nov 1, 2022
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John Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy
Oct 31, 2022
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Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
Oct 24, 2022
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Antonio Padilla on Large Numbers and the Scope of the Universe
Oct 17, 2022
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AMA | October 2022
Oct 10, 2022
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Introducing - The ReWatcher: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Oct 3, 2022
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Timiebi Aganaba on Law and Governance in Space
Oct 3, 2022
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Chiara Mingarelli on Searching for Black Holes with Pulsars
Sep 26, 2022
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Solo: Secrets of Einstein's Equation
Sep 19, 2022
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Randall Munroe on Imagining What If...?
Sep 12, 2022
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Brad DeLong on Why the 20th Century Fell Short of Utopia
Sep 5, 2022
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AMA | September 2022
Aug 29, 2022
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Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music
Aug 22, 2022
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William MacAskill on Maximizing Good in the Present and Future
Aug 15, 2022
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Simon Conway Morris on Evolution, Convergence, and Theism
Aug 8, 2022
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AMA | August 2022
Aug 1, 2022
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John Quiggin on Interest Rates and the Information Economy
Jul 25, 2022
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John Asher Johnson on Hunting for Exoplanets
Jul 18, 2022
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Introducing: Who Killed Daphne?
Jul 11, 2022
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N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists
Jul 11, 2022
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AMA | July 2022
Jul 4, 2022
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Andrew Papachristos on the Network Theory of Gun Violence
Jun 27, 2022
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Wondery Presents: The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakley
Jun 20, 2022
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Ed Yong on How Animals Sense the World
Jun 20, 2022
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AMA | June 2022
Jun 13, 2022
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Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse
Jun 6, 2022
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Elizabeth Cohen on Time and Other Political Values
May 30, 2022
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Nick Lane on Powering Biology
May 23, 2022
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Catherine Brinkley on the Science of Cities
May 16, 2022
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AMA | May 2022
May 12, 2022
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Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect
May 9, 2022
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Richard Dawkins on Flight and Other Evolutionary Achievements
May 2, 2022
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Frans de Waal on Culture and Gender in Primates
Apr 25, 2022
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Daniels on Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Apr 18, 2022
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AMA | April 2022
Apr 14, 2022
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Nicole Yunger Halpern on Quantum Steampunk Thermodynamics
Apr 11, 2022
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Jane McGonigal on How to Imagine the Future
Apr 4, 2022
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Lea Goentoro on Regrowing Limbs
Mar 28, 2022
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Brian Klaas on Power and the Temptation of Corruption
Mar 21, 2022
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AMA | March 2022
Mar 17, 2022
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Arik Kershenbaum on What Aliens Will Be Like
Mar 14, 2022
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Andrew Leigh on the Politics of Looming Disasters
Mar 7, 2022
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Sherry Turkle on How Technology Affects Our Humanity
Feb 28, 2022
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Arvid Ågren on the Gene's-Eye View of Evolution
Feb 21, 2022
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Gary Marcus on Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense
Feb 14, 2022
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AMA | February 2022
Feb 10, 2022
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Michael Dine on Supersymmetry, Anthropics, and the Future of Particle Physics
Feb 7, 2022
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Sally Haslanger on Social Construction and Critical Theory
Jan 31, 2022
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Peter Dodds on Quantifying the Shape of Stories
Jan 24, 2022
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Camilla Pang on Instructions for Being Human
Jan 17, 2022
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David Reich on Genetics and Ancient Humanity
Jan 10, 2022
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Jody Azzouni on What Is and Isn't Real
Jan 3, 2022
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Holiday Message 2021 | On Disciplines & Cocktails
Dec 20, 2021
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AMA | December 2021
Dec 15, 2021
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Monika Schleier-Smith on Cold Atoms and Emergent Spacetime
Dec 13, 2021
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Joshua Greene on Morality, Psychology, and Trolley Problems
Dec 6, 2021
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William Ratcliff on Multicellularity, Physics, and Evolution
Nov 29, 2021
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Tai-Danae Bradley on Algebra, Topology, Language, and Entropy
Nov 22, 2021
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AMA | November 2021
Nov 17, 2021
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Sylvia Earle on the Oceans, the Planet, and People
Nov 15, 2021
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Introducing: Operator
Nov 11, 2021
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David Goyer on Televising the Fall of the Galactic Empire
Nov 8, 2021
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Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology
Nov 1, 2021
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Priya Natarajan on Galaxies, Black Holes, and Cosmic Anomalies
Oct 25, 2021
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C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency
Oct 18, 2021
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AMA | October 2021
Oct 14, 2021
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Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness
Oct 11, 2021
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Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory, Physics, and Possibility
Oct 4, 2021
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Betül Kaçar on Paleogenomics and Ancient Life
Sep 27, 2021
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Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics, Luck, and Fairness
Sep 20, 2021
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AMA | September 2021
Sep 16, 2021
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Herbert Gintis on Game Theory, Evolution, and Social Rationality
Sep 13, 2021
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Introducing: 9/12
Sep 8, 2021
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Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology
Sep 6, 2021
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Leidy Klotz on Our Resistance to Subtractive Change
Aug 30, 2021
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W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics
Aug 23, 2021
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Edward Slingerland on Confucianism, Daoism, and Wu Wei
Aug 16, 2021
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AMA | August 2021
Aug 12, 2021
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Mari Ruti on Lack, Love, and Psychoanalysis
Aug 9, 2021
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David Wallace on the Arrow of Time
Aug 2, 2021
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Elizabeth Strychalski on Synthetic Cells and the Rules of Biology
Jul 26, 2021
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Catherine D'Ignazio on Data, Objectivity, and Bias
Jul 19, 2021
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Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics
Jul 12, 2021
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AMA | July 2021
Jul 9, 2021
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Reza Aslan on Religion, Metaphor, and Meaning
Jul 5, 2021
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John Preskill on Quantum Computers and What They're Good For
Jun 28, 2021
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Introducing: One Hundred Percent with Marcus Lemonis
Jun 23, 2021
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Charis Kubrin on Criminology, Incarceration, and Hip-Hop
Jun 21, 2021
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Jordan Ellenberg on the Mathematics of Political Boundaries
Jun 14, 2021
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AMA | June 2021
Jun 10, 2021
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Simon DeDeo on How Explanations Work and Why They Sometimes Fail
Jun 7, 2021
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Lee Smolin on Time, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality
May 31, 2021
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Henry Farrell on Democracy as a Problem-Solving Mechanism
May 24, 2021
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Rachel Laudan on Cuisine, Culture, and Empire
May 17, 2021
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AMA | May 2021
May 13, 2021
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Emily Riehl on Topology, Categories, and the Future of Mathematics
May 10, 2021
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Niall Ferguson on Histories, Networks, and Catastrophes
May 3, 2021
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Solo: Are We Moving Beyond the Standard Model?
Apr 26, 2021
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Julia Galef on Openness, Bias, and Rationality
Apr 19, 2021
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AMA | April 2021
Apr 14, 2021
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Charlie Jane Anders on Stories and How to Write Them
Apr 12, 2021
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Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World
Apr 5, 2021
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Dean Buonomano on Time, Reality, and the Brain
Mar 29, 2021
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Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology
Mar 22, 2021
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Daryl Morey on Analytics, Psychology, and Basketball
Mar 15, 2021
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AMA | March 2021
Mar 10, 2021
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Justin Clarke-Doane on Mathematics, Morality, Objectivity, and Reality
Mar 8, 2021
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Roderick Graham on Cyberspace, Race, and Cultural Conservatism
Mar 1, 2021
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Introducing Against the Odds
Feb 24, 2021
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Shadi Bartsch on Plato, Vergil, Confucius, and Modernity
Feb 22, 2021
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AMA | February 2021
Feb 17, 2021
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Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
Feb 15, 2021
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Ziya Tong on Realities We Don't See
Feb 8, 2021
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Bonus | AIP Oral History Interview
Feb 4, 2021
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Michael Levin on Growth, Form, Information, and the Self
Feb 1, 2021
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Avi Loeb on Taking Aliens Seriously
Jan 25, 2021
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Frank Wilczek on the Present and Future of Fundamental Physics
Jan 18, 2021
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Solo: Democracy in America
Jan 11, 2021
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Joseph Henrich on the Weirdness of the West
Jan 4, 2021
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Holiday Message 2020 | The Screwy Universe
Dec 21, 2020
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Erich Jarvis on Language, Birds, and People
Dec 14, 2020
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AMA | December 2020
Dec 9, 2020
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