AMA | November 2022
Welcome to the November 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who […]
216 | John Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy
People have a complicated relationship to mathematics. We all use it in our everyday lives, from calculating a tip at
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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
The founders of statistical mechanics in the 19th century faced an uphill battle to convince their fellow physicists that the
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214 | Antonio Padilla on Large Numbers and the Scope of the Universe
It’s a big universe we live in, so it comes as no surprise that big numbers are needed to describe
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AMA | October 2022
Welcome to the October 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who
213 | Timiebi Aganaba on Law and Governance in Space
With communication satellites, weather satellites, GPS, and much more, what happens in space is already important to our lives here
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212 | Chiara Mingarelli on Searching for Black Holes with Pulsars
The detection of gravitational waves from inspiraling black holes by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations was rightly celebrated as a
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211 | Solo: Secrets of Einstein’s Equation
My little pandemic-lockdown contribution to the world was a series of videos called The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. The
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210 | Randall Munroe on Imagining What If…?
What’s the fastest way to get a human being around a racetrack, if we ignore all the rules of racing?
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209 | Brad DeLong on Why the 20th Century Fell Short of Utopia
People throughout history have imagined ideal societies of various sorts. As the twentieth century dawned, advances in manufacturing and communication
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