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AMA | December 2022
Dec 05, 2022Welcome to the December 2022 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...
Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn on the Neuroscience and Philosophy of Curiosity
Nov 28, 2022It's easy enough to proclaim that we are curious creatures, but what does that really mean? What kinds of curiosity are there? And how does curiosity arise in our brains? Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett a...
Raphael Bousso on Black Holes and the Holographic Universe
Nov 21, 2022Stephen Hawking's discoveries of black hole radiation, entropy, and the information-loss problem have both taught us an enormous amount about the relationship between quantum mechanics and gravity, an...
Margaret Levi on Moral Political Economy
Nov 14, 2022Why do people voluntarily hand over authority to a government? Under what conditions should they do so? These questions are both timeless and extremely timely, as modern democratic governments struggl...
AMA | November 2022
Nov 07, 2022Welcome to the November 2022 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 Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy
Oct 31, 2022People have a complicated relationship to mathematics. We all use it in our everyday lives, from calculating a tip at a restaurant to estimating the probability of some future event. But many people f...
Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
Oct 24, 2022The founders of statistical mechanics in the 19th century faced an uphill battle to convince their fellow physicists that the laws of thermodynamics could be derived from the random motions of microsc...
Antonio Padilla on Large Numbers and the Scope of the Universe
Oct 17, 2022It's a big universe we live in, so it comes as no surprise that big numbers are needed to describe it. There are roughly 10^22 stars in the observable universe, and about 10^88 particles altogether. B...
AMA | October 2022
Oct 10, 2022Welcome to the October 2022 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...
Timiebi Aganaba on Law and Governance in Space
Oct 03, 2022With communication satellites, weather satellites, GPS, and much more, what happens in space is already important to our lives here on Earth. And the importance of space is only going to grow as we in...