Sean Carroll

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26,727 appearances 49 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2024 last heard 5d ago

Sean Carroll’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 368 | Elizabeth Alexander on Why Democracy Needs Imagination · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

But can you say something about sort of the place of poetry in our culture today? podcast-host

Is it what it was? podcast-host

Is it going to come back? podcast-host

Is it doing okay? podcast-host

mean, podcast-host

was just going to say I love this issue of taking time to think things through and come to an understanding look I write non-fiction books about physics and I'm constantly struggling and you know there's a room for pluralism here some people want to just like give a good impression a warm feeling like a whiz bang isn't the universe cool and that's very important and I love it and I'm podcast-host

challenging my readers a little bit and i'm hoping that they will sometimes take the time to realize like oh i gotta this isn't what i'm used to i gotta think it through and i just sometimes i wonder whether or not that's becoming a lost value in our culture podcast-host

Can you just maybe pretend that we're in a seminar room a little bit for the moment and talk about the idea of close reading, of really not just skimming and getting the gist of something, but paying attention to every word, every choice, what it might mean, that process of discovery as we go deeper and deeper into the poem? podcast-host

Are there ways, other than the obvious practice, to become better at close reading and seeing these connotations and implications in a poem that we might miss on a first casual glance? podcast-host

At the risk of giving in to the temptation of overly facile cultural commentary, do we need this more than ever right now because attention spans are degrading and we're all spending time looking at our phones? podcast-host

I mean, I'm on social media. podcast-host

I've seen many, many times people don't have the patience even to read an entire tweet before reacting to it. podcast-host

I know. podcast-host

Do you think of maybe this as a little bit of – podcast-host

exercise that we need to be more intentional about than we did 100 years ago podcast-host

It makes me want to found a school of martial arts where we combine yoga and poetry reading. podcast-host

Oh yeah, sure. podcast-host

Make that podcast-host

And I podcast-host

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