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AMA | April 2025
Apr 07, 2025Welcome to the April 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 Patre...
Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies
Mar 31, 2025Cosmologists were, let us be honest, pretty stunned in 1998 when observations revealed that the universe is accelerating. There was an obvious plausible explanation, the cosmological constant proposed...
Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information
Mar 24, 2025Consciousness is easier to possess than to define. One thing we can do is to look into the brain and see what lights up when conscious awareness is taking place. A complete understanding of this would...
Alison Gopnik on Children, AI, and Modes of Thinking
Mar 17, 2025We often study cognition in other species, in part to learn about modes of thinking that are different from our own. Today's guest, psychologist/philosopher Alison Gopnik, argues that we needn't look ...
AMA | March 2025
Mar 10, 2025Welcome to the March 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 Patre...
Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails
Mar 03, 2025A lot of science goes into crafting the perfect cocktail. Balancing sweet and bitter notes, providing the right amount of aeration and dilution, getting it to just the right temperature and keeping it...
Helen Czerski on Our Energetic Oceans
Feb 24, 2025It is commonplace to refer to the Earth's oceans as vast and largely unexplored. But we do understand some aspects, and improving that understanding is crucial to ensuring the continued viability and ...
Lilliana Mason on Polarization and Political Psychology
Feb 17, 2025Political outcomes would be relatively simple to predict and understand if only people were well-informed, entirely rational, and perfectly self-interested. Alas, real human beings are messy, emotiona...
Bonus | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter
Feb 12, 2025The Trump administration, led by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, has proposed sweeping cuts to spending on science research here in the US, in particular at the National Institu...
James Evans on Innovation, Consolidation, and the Science of Science
Feb 10, 2025It is a feature of many human activities - sports, cooking, music, interpersonal relations - that being able to do them well doesn't necessarily mean you can accurately describe how to do them well. S...