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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Academia
324 | Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research
It is not manifestly obvious that universities should be where most scholarly research is performed. One could imagine systems that
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Bonus | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter
The Trump administration, led by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, has proposed sweeping cuts to spending on
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304 | James Evans on Innovation, Consolidation, and the Science of Science
It is a feature of many human activities – sports, cooking, music, interpersonal relations – that being able to do
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Holiday Message | Hits and Misses
It’s the end of the year, and time for our annual holiday break here at Mindscape. But as usual, we
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Holiday Message 2021 | On Disciplines & Cocktails
As each December comes to a close, we wrap up another year of podcasts with the Mindscape Holiday Message. Nothing
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Bonus | AIP Oral History Interview
Here is a special bonus punishment treat for Mindscape listeners: an interview of me, by David Zierler of the American
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119 | Musa al-Gharbi on the Value of Intellectual Diversity
In the service of seeking truth, there would seem to be value in intellectual diversity, both in keeping ourselves honest
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Episode 3: Alice Dreger on Sexuality, Truth, and Justice
The human mind loves nothing more than to build mental boxes — categories — and put things into them, then
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