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AMA | August 2025
Aug 04, 2025Welcome to the August 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 Patr...
Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics
Jul 28, 2025The search for a foundational theory of quantum mechanics that all physicists can agree on remains active. Over the last century a number of contenders have emerged, including Many-Worlds, pilot-wave ...
Philip Pettit on Language, Agency, Politics, and Freedom
Jul 21, 2025When we think of the capacities that distinguish humans from other species, we generally turn to intelligence and its byproducts, including our technological prowess. But our intelligence is highly co...
David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory
Jul 14, 2025Quantum field theory is the basis for our most successful theories of fundamental physics. And yet, there are things we don't understand about it. Some of these puzzles are relatively well-known, whil...
AMA | July 2025
Jul 07, 2025Welcome to the July 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 Patreo...
Solo: Complexity and the Universe
Jun 30, 2025Our universe started out looking very simple: hot, dense, smooth, rapidly expanding. According to our best current model, it will end up looking simple once again: cold, dark, empty. It's in between -...
Bryan Van Norden on Philosophy From the Rest of the World
Jun 23, 2025It is common to refer to philosophy as "a series of footnotes to Plato." But in the original quote, Alfred North Whitehead was more careful: he limited his characterization to "the European philosophi...
Edward Miguel on the Developing Practice of Development Economics
Jun 16, 2025Economics is seeing an upsurge in the importance of controlled, reproducible empirical studies. One area where this has had a great impact is on development economics, which studies the economies of l...
Nicole Rust on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders
Jun 09, 2025The human brain is extremely complicated, but decades of careful neuroscientific research have revealed quite a bit about how it works, including how certain genes affect particular brain behaviors. N...
AMA | June 2025
Jun 02, 2025Welcome to the June 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 Patreo...