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Kelly and Zach Weinersmith on Building Cities on the Moon and Mars
Nov 13, 2023There is an undeniable romance in the idea of traveling to, and even living in, outer space. In recent years, a pragmatic justification has become increasingly popular: the Earth is vulnerable to thre...
AMA | November 2023
Nov 06, 2023Welcome to the November 2023 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...
Michael Muthukrishna on Developing a Theory of Everyone
Oct 30, 2023A "Theory of Everything" is physicists' somewhat tongue-in-cheek phrase for a hypothetical model of all the fundamental physical interactions. Of course, even if we had such a theory, it would tell us...
William Egginton on Kant, Heisenberg, and Borges
Oct 23, 2023It can be tempting, when first introduced to a deep concept of physics like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, to draw grand philosophical conclusions about the impossibility of knowing anything prec...
David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation
Oct 16, 2023David Deutsch is one of the most creative scientific thinkers working today, who has as a goal to understand and explain the natural world as best we can. He was a pioneer in quantum computing, and ha...
AMA | October 2023
Oct 09, 2023Welcome to the October 2023 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 Pat...
Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive
Oct 02, 2023Our planet and its environment are in bad shape, in all sorts of ways. Those of us who want to improve the situation face a dilemma. On the one hand, we have to be forceful and clear-headed about how ...
Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity
Sep 25, 2023Biological organisms are paradigmatic emergent systems. That atoms of which they are made mindlessly obey the local laws of physics; even cells and organs do their individual jobs without explicitly u...
Brendan Nyhan on Navigating the Information Ecosystem
Sep 18, 2023The modern world inundates us with both information and misinformation. What are the forces that conspire to make misinformation so prevalent? Can we combat the flow of misinformation, perhaps by lega...
Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds
Sep 11, 2023The study of cognition and sentience would be greatly abetted by the discovery of intelligent alien beings, who presumably developed independently of life here on Earth. But we do have more than one d...