182 | Sally Haslanger on Social Construction and Critical Theory
Reality is just out there — but how we perceive reality and talk about it depends on choices we human […]
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181 | Peter Dodds on Quantifying the Shape of Stories
A good story takes you on an emotional journey, with ups and downs along the way. Thanks to science, we
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180 | Camilla Pang on Instructions for Being Human
Being a human is tricky. There are any number of unwritten rules and social cues that we have to learn
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179 | David Reich on Genetics and Ancient Humanity
Human beings like to divide themselves into groups, and then cooperate, socialize, and reproduce with members of their own group.
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178 | Jody Azzouni on What Is and Isn’t Real
Are numbers real? What does that even mean? You can’t kick a number. But you can talk about numbers in
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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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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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