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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 ...
AMA | July 2022
Jul 04, 2022Welcome to the July 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questi...
Andrew Papachristos on the Network Theory of Gun Violence
Jun 27, 2022The United States is suffering from an epidemic of tragic gun violence. While a political debate rages around the topic of gun control, it remains important to understand the causes and possible remed...
Ed Yong on How Animals Sense the World
Jun 20, 2022All of us construct models of the world, and update them on the basis of evidence brought to us by our senses. Scientists try to be more rigorous about it, but we all do it. It's natural that this pro...
AMA | June 2022
Jun 13, 2022Welcome to the June 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! We are inaugurating a slightly different publication schedule, in which these monthly AMA will take the place of one of the regular Monda...
Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse
Jun 06, 2022The 200th episode of Mindscape! Thanks to everyone for sticking around for this long. To celebrate, a solo episode discussing a set of issues naturally arising at the intersection of philosophy and ph...
Elizabeth Cohen on Time and Other Political Values
May 30, 2022Time is everywhere, pervading each aspect of intellectual inquiry — from physics to philosophy to biology to psychology, and all the way up to politics. Considerations of time help govern a nation's s...
Nick Lane on Powering Biology
May 23, 2022The origin of life here on Earth was an important and fascinating event, but it was also a long time ago and hasn't left many pieces of direct evidence concerning what actually happened. One set of cl...
Catherine Brinkley on the Science of Cities
May 16, 2022The concept of the city is a crucial one for human civilization: people living in proximity, bringing in resources from outside, separated from the labors of subsistence so they can engage in the trad...