Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Episodes
8 | Carl Zimmer on Heredity, DNA, and Editing Genes
06 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our understanding of heredity and genetics is improving at blinding speed. It was only in the year 2000 that scientists obtained the first rough map o...
7 | Yascha Mounk on Threats to Liberal Democracy
30 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Both words in the phrase "liberal democracy" carry meaning, and both concepts are under attack around the world. "Democracy" means that they people ...
6 | Liv Boeree on Poker, Aliens, and Thinking in Probabilities
23 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Poker, like life, is a game of incomplete information. To do well in such a game, we have to think in terms of probabilities, unpredictable strategies...
5 | Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you scale up an animal to twice its height, keeping everything else proportionate, its volume and weight become eight times as much. Such a scaling...
4 | Anthony Pinn on Humanism, Theology, and the Black Community
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
According to atheism, God does not exist. But religions have traditionally done much more than simply proclaim God's existence: they have provided com...
3 | Alice Dreger on Sexuality, Truth, and Justice
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The human mind loves nothing more than to build mental boxes -- categories -- and put things into them, then refuse to accept it when something doesn'...
2 | Carlo Rovelli on Quantum Mechanics, Spacetime, and Reality
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two great triumphs of twentieth-century theoretical physics. Unfortunately, they don't play well toge...
1 | Carol Tavris on Mistakes, Justification, and Cognitive Dissonance
04 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For the first full episode of Mindscape, it's an honor to welcome social psychologist Carol Tavris. Her book with co-author Eliot Aronson, Mistakes W...
Welcome to the Mindscape Podcast!
01 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I've decided to officially take the plunge into the world of podcasting. The new show will be called Mindscape, and will mostly consist of me talking ...