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Ellen Langer on Mindfulness and the Body
Jun 17, 2024For those of us who are not dualists, the mind arises from our physical bodies -- mostly the brain, but the rest of the body has a role to play. And yet it remains tempting to treat the mind as a thin...
Kieran Healy on the Technology of Ranking People
Jun 10, 2024We claim to love all of our children, friends, and students equally. But perhaps deep down you assign a ranking to them, from favorite to not-so-favorite. Ranking and quantifying people is an irresist...
AMA | June 2024
Jun 03, 2024Welcome to the June 2024 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreo...
Cumrun Vafa on the Universe According to String Theory
May 27, 2024String theory, the current leading candidate for a theory of quantum gravity as well as other particles and forces, doesn't connect directly to the world we see. It's possible that there is a large la...
Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting Our Climate
May 20, 2024The Earth's climate keeps changing, largely due to the effects of human activity, and we haven't been doing enough to slow things down. Indeed, over the past year, global temperatures have been higher...
Solo: Quantum Fields, Particles, Forces, and Symmetries
May 13, 2024Publication week! Say hello to Quanta and Fields, the second volume of the planned three-volume series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. This volume covers quantum physics generally, but focuses espe...
AMA | May 2024
May 06, 2024Welcome to the May 2024 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreon...
Gizem Gumuskaya on Building Robots from Human Cells
Apr 29, 2024Modern biology is advancing by leaps and bounds, not only in understanding how organisms work, but in learning how to modify them in interesting ways. One exciting frontier is the study of tiny "robot...
Stefanos Geroulanos on the Invention of Prehistory
Apr 22, 2024Humanity itself might be the hardest thing for scientists to study fairly and accurately. Not only do we come to the subject with certain inevitable preconceptions, but it's hard to resist the temptat...
Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People
Apr 15, 2024Science is enabled by the fact that the natural world exhibits predictability and regularity, at least to some extent. Scientists collect data about what happens in the world, then try to suggest "law...