AMA | June 2021
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150 | Simon DeDeo on How Explanations Work and Why They Sometimes Fail
You observe a phenomenon, and come up with an explanation for it. That’s true for scientists, but also for literally
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149 | Lee Smolin on Time, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality
The challenge to a theoretical physicist pushing beyond our best current theories is that there are too many ways to
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148 | Henry Farrell on Democracy as a Problem-Solving Mechanism
Democracy posits the radical idea that political power and legitimacy should ultimately be found in all of the people, rather
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147 | Rachel Laudan on Cuisine, Culture, and Empire
For as much as people talk about food, a good case can be made that we don’t give it the
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AMA | May 2021
Welcome to the May 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who
146 | Emily Riehl on Topology, Categories, and the Future of Mathematics
“A way that math can make the world a better place is by making it a more interesting place to
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145 | Niall Ferguson on Histories, Networks, and Catastrophes
The world has gone through a tough time with the COVID-19 pandemic. Every catastrophic event is unique, but there are
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144 | Solo: Are We Moving Beyond the Standard Model?
I’ve been a professional physicist since the 1980’s, and not once over the course of my career has a particle-physics
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143 | Julia Galef on Openness, Bias, and Rationality
Mom, apple pie, and rationality — all things that are unquestionably good, right? But rationality, as much as we might
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