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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...
AMA | February 2025
Feb 03, 2025Welcome to the February 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...
James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System
Jan 27, 2025A typical human lifespan is approximately three billion heartbeats in duration. Lasting that long requires not only intrinsic stability, but an impressive capacity for self-repair. Nevertheless, thing...
Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution
Jan 20, 2025Randomness plays an important role in the evolution of life (as my evil twin will tell you). But random doesn't mean arbitrary. Biological organisms are physical objects, after all, and subject to the...