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Randall Munroe on Imagining What If...?
Sep 12, 2022What's the fastest way to get a human being around a racetrack, if we ignore all the rules of racing? How many pages would you have to read to absorb all of the government laws that apply to you? It's...
Brad DeLong on Why the 20th Century Fell Short of Utopia
Sep 05, 2022People throughout history have imagined ideal societies of various sorts. As the twentieth century dawned, advances in manufacturing and communication arguably brought the idea of utopia within our pr...
AMA | September 2022
Aug 29, 2022Welcome to the September 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 P...
Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music
Aug 22, 2022There is no human endeavor that does not have a theory of it — a set of ideas about what makes it work and how to do it well. Music is no exception, popular music included — there are reasons why cert...
William MacAskill on Maximizing Good in the Present and Future
Aug 15, 2022It's always a little humbling to think about what affects your words and actions might have on other people, not only right now but potentially well into the future. Now take that humble feeling and p...
Simon Conway Morris on Evolution, Convergence, and Theism
Aug 08, 2022Evolution by natural selection is one of the rare scientific theories that resonates within the wider culture as much as it does within science. But as much as people know about evolution, we also fin...
AMA | August 2022
Aug 01, 2022Welcome to the August 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 Patr...
John Quiggin on Interest Rates and the Information Economy
Jul 25, 2022The idea of an "interest rate" might seem mundane and practical, in comparison to our usual topics around here, but there is a profound philosophical idea lurking in the background: if you lend me mon...
John Asher Johnson on Hunting for Exoplanets
Jul 18, 2022Recent years have seen a revolution in the study of exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the Sun (or don't orbit stars at all). After a few tentative detections in the 1990s, dedicated inst...
N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists
Jul 11, 2022We describe the world using language — we can't help it. And we all know that ordinary language is an imperfect way of communicating rigorous scientific statements, but sometimes it's the best we can ...