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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...
AMA | October 2025
Oct 13, 2025Welcome to the October 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 Pat...
Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse
Oct 06, 2025Certain features of our universe seem unnatural to us. These include "constants of nature" such as the cosmological constant and the mass of the Higgs boson, as well as features of the initial conditi...
Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information
Sep 29, 2025A characteristic of complex systems is that individual components combine to exhibit large-scale emergent behavior even when the components were not specifically designed for any particular purpose wi...
Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge
Sep 22, 2025Getting along in society requires that we mostly adhere to certainly shared norms and customs. Often it's not enough that we all know what the rules are, but also that everyone else knows the rules, a...
Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies
Sep 15, 2025Like any machine, bodies occasionally break down, and it's natural to go in search of a replacement part. Ancient societies featured simple prosthetics for teeth, noses, and limbs, while modern medici...
AMA | September 2025
Sep 08, 2025Welcome to the September 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 P...
Cass Sunstein on Liberalism
Sep 01, 2025"Liberalism," divorced from its particular connotations in this or that modern political context, refers broadly to a philosophy of individual rights, liberties, and responsibilities, coupled with res...