Holiday Message 2022 | Thinking Really Slowly
Welcome to that beloved Mindscape annual tradition, the Holiday Message. An opportunity for a quicker and less-well-thought-out solo episode to […]
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220 | Lara Buchak on Risk and Rationality
Life is rich with moments of uncertainty, where we’re not exactly sure what’s going to happen next. We often find
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AMA | December 2022
Welcome to the December 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who
219 | Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn on the Neuroscience and Philosophy of Curiosity
It’s easy enough to proclaim that we are curious creatures, but what does that really mean? What kinds of curiosity
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218 | Raphael Bousso on Black Holes and the Holographic Universe
Stephen Hawking’s discoveries of black hole radiation, entropy, and the information-loss problem have both taught us an enormous amount about
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217 | Margaret Levi on Moral Political Economy
Why do people voluntarily hand over authority to a government? Under what conditions should they do so? These questions are
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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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