AMA | November 2021
Welcome to the November 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who […]
Welcome to the November 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who […]
It’s a well-worn cliché that oceans cover seventy percent of the surface of Earth, but we tend to give them
173 | Sylvia Earle on the Oceans, the Planet, and People Read More
Science and storytelling have a long and tumultuous relationship. Scientists sometimes want stories to be just an advertisement for how
172 | David Goyer on Televising the Fall of the Galactic Empire Read More
As the holidays approach, we are being reminded of the fragility of the global supply chain. But at the same
171 | Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology Read More
There is so much we don’t know about our universe. But our curiosity about the unknown shouldn’t blind us to
170 | Priya Natarajan on Galaxies, Black Holes, and Cosmic Anomalies Read More
Games are everywhere, but why exactly do we play them? It seems counterintuitive, to artificially invent goals and obstacles just
169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency Read More
Welcome to the October 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who
Those of us who think that that the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely known tend to also
168 | Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness Read More
Traditional physics works within the “Laplacian paradigm”: you give me the state of the universe (or some closed system), some
167 | Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory, Physics, and Possibility Read More
In the question to understand the biology of life, we are (so far) limited to what happened here on Earth.
166 | Betül Kaçar on Paleogenomics and Ancient Life Read More