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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...
Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets
Aug 25, 2025In a relatively short period of time, exoplanets (planets around stars other than our Sun) have gone from an intriguing conjecture to an active field of scientific study, with over 5,000 confirmed dis...
Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixels, and the Great Digital Convergence
Aug 18, 2025The world is becoming pixelated. As computers and other digital devices become ubiquitous, human knowledge and communication and information is gradually being converted into, and manipulated as, stri...
Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research
Aug 11, 2025It is not manifestly obvious that universities should be where most scholarly research is performed. One could imagine systems that separated out the tasks of "teaching students" and "generating new k...