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Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University
Dec 22, 2025Time for the holiday message! Rounding off the year with a brief and casual reflection on some issue that doesn't quite rise to the level of a full solo podcast. And hopefully something uplifting. Th...
AMA | December 2025
Dec 15, 2025Welcome to the December 2025 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...
Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos
Dec 08, 2025The story goes that Wolfgang Pauli, who first proposed the existence of neutrinos, was embarrassed to have done so, as it was considered uncouth to hypothesize new particles that could not be detected...
Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning
Dec 01, 2025Game theory is a way of quantitatively describing what happens any time one thing interacts with another thing, when both things have goals and potential rewards. That's a pretty broad class of intere...
Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI
Nov 24, 2025Machine learning using neural networks has led to a remarkable leap forward in artificial intelligence, and the technological and social ramifications have been discussed at great length. To understan...
AMA | November 2025
Nov 17, 2025Welcome to the November 2025 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...
Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe
Nov 10, 2025Science has an incredibly impressive track record of uncovering nonintuitive ideas about the universe that turn out to be surprisingly accurate. It can be tempting to think of scientific discoveries a...
Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens
Nov 03, 2025The universe as revealed by physics is objective: it's out there, existing and behaving in ways that are completely independent of human thought. But the process by which we learn about the universe, ...
Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them
Oct 27, 2025Why are people wrong all the time, anyway? Is it because we human beings are too good at being irrational, using our biases and motivated reasoning to convince ourselves of something that isn't quite ...
Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music
Oct 20, 2025Music is math that you can dance to. The fact that certain notes sound good when played together, or in succession, is related to the mathematical properties of the frequencies to which they correspon...