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AMA | April 2024
Apr 08, 2024Welcome to the April 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 Patre...
Claudia de Rham on Modifying General Relativity
Apr 01, 2024Einstein's theory of general relativity has been our best understanding of gravity for over a century, withstanding a variety of experimental challenges of ever-increasing precision. But we have to be...
Solo: The Coming Transition in How Humanity Lives
Mar 25, 2024Technology is changing the world, in good and bad ways. Artificial intelligence, internet connectivity, biological engineering, and climate change are dramatically altering the parameters of human lif...
Sahar Heydari Fard on Complexity, Justice, and Social Dynamics
Mar 18, 2024When it comes to social change, two questions immediately present themselves: What kind of change do we want to see happen? And, how do we bring it about? These questions are distinct but related; the...
AMA | March 2024
Mar 11, 2024Welcome to the March 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 Patre...
Matt Strassler on Relativity, Fields, and the Language of Reality
Mar 04, 2024In the 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell argued that light was a wave of electric and magnetic fields. But it took over four decades for physicists to put together the theory of special relativity, which cor...
Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia
Feb 26, 2024The twentieth century was something, wasn't it? Margaret Mead, as well as her onetime-husband Gregory Bateson, managed to play roles in several of its key developments: social anthropology and its imp...
Christoph Adami on How Information Makes Sense of Biology
Feb 19, 2024Evolution is sometimes described -- not precisely, but with some justification -- as being about the "survival of the fittest." But that idea doesn't work unless there is some way for one generation t...
AMA | February 2024
Feb 12, 2024Welcome to the February 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 Pa...
John Skrentny on How the Economy Mistreats STEM Workers
Feb 05, 2024Universities and their students are constantly being encouraged to produce more graduates majoring in STEM fields -- science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. That's the kind of training that...