Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University
Time for the holiday message! Rounding off the year with a brief and casual reflection on some issue that doesn’t […]
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AMA | December 2025
Welcome to the December 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who
338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos
The story goes that Wolfgang Pauli, who first proposed the existence of neutrinos, was embarrassed to have done so, as
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337 | Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning
Game theory is a way of quantitatively describing what happens any time one thing interacts with another thing, when both
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336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI
Machine learning using neural networks has led to a remarkable leap forward in artificial intelligence, and the technological and social
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AMA | November 2025
Welcome to the November 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who
335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe
Science has an incredibly impressive track record of uncovering nonintuitive ideas about the universe that turn out to be surprisingly
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334 | Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens
The universe as revealed by physics is objective: it’s out there, existing and behaving in ways that are completely independent
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333 | Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them
Why are people wrong all the time, anyway? Is it because we human beings are too good at being irrational,
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332 | Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music
Music is math that you can dance to. The fact that certain notes sound good when played together, or in
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