AMA | December 2021
Welcome to the December 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who […]
177 | Monika Schleier-Smith on Cold Atoms and Emergent Spacetime
When it comes to thinking about quantum mechanics, there are levels. One level is shut-up-and-calculate: find a wave function, square
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176 | Joshua Greene on Morality, Psychology, and Trolley Problems
We all know you can’t derive “ought” from “is.” But it’s equally clear that “is” — how the world actual
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175 | William Ratcliff on Multicellularity, Physics, and Evolution
We’ve talked about the very origin of life, but certain transitions along its subsequent history were incredibly important. Perhaps none
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174 | Tai-Danae Bradley on Algebra, Topology, Language, and Entropy
Mathematics is often thought of as the pinnacle of crisp precision: the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle
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AMA | November 2021
Welcome to the November 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who
173 | Sylvia Earle on the Oceans, the Planet, and People
It’s a well-worn cliché that oceans cover seventy percent of the surface of Earth, but we tend to give them
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172 | David Goyer on Televising the Fall of the Galactic Empire
Science and storytelling have a long and tumultuous relationship. Scientists sometimes want stories to be just an advertisement for how
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171 | Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology
As the holidays approach, we are being reminded of the fragility of the global supply chain. But at the same
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170 | Priya Natarajan on Galaxies, Black Holes, and Cosmic Anomalies
There is so much we don’t know about our universe. But our curiosity about the unknown shouldn’t blind us to
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