AMA | April 2021
Welcome to the April 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who […]
142 | Charlie Jane Anders on Stories and How to Write Them
Telling a story seems like the most natural, human thing in the world. We all do it, all the time.
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141 | Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World
In a world flooded with information, everybody necessarily makes choices about what we pay attention to. This basic fact can
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140 | Dean Buonomano on Time, Reality, and the Brain
“Time” and “the brain” are two of those things that are somewhat mysterious, but it would be hard for us
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139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology
Imagine two people with exactly the same innate abilities, but one is born into a wealthy family and the other
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138 | Daryl Morey on Analytics, Psychology, and Basketball
You might think that human beings, exhausted by competing for resources and rewards in the real world, would take it
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AMA | March 2021
Welcome to the March 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who
137 | Justin Clarke-Doane on Mathematics, Morality, Objectivity, and Reality
On a spectrum of philosophical topics, one might be tempted to put mathematics and morality on opposite ends. Math is
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136 | Roderick Graham on Cyberspace, Race, and Cultural Conservatism
The internet has made it so much easier for people to talk to each other, in a literal sense. But
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135 | Shadi Bartsch on Plato, Vergil, Confucius, and Modernity
In our postmodern world, studying the classics of ancient Greece and Rome can seem quaint at best, downright repressive at
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