108 | Carl Bergstrom on Information, Disinformation, and Bullshit
We are living, in case you haven’t noticed, in a world full of bullshit. It’s hard to say whether the […]
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107 | Russ Shafer-Landau on the Reality of Morality
Despite occasional and important disagreements, most people are in rough agreement about what it means to be moral, to do
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106 | Stuart Bartlett on What “Life” Means
Someday, most likely, we will encounter life that is not as we know it. We might find it elsewhere in
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105 | Ann-Sophie Barwich on the Science and Philosophy of Smell
We gather empirical evidence about the nature of the world through our senses, and use that evidence to construct an
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104 | David Rosen and Scott Miles on the Neuroscience of Music and Creativity
Creativity is one of those things that we all admire but struggle to define or make concrete. Music provides a
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103 | J. Kenji López-Alt on Cooking As and With Science
Cooking is art, but it’s also very much science — mostly chemistry, but with important contributions from physics and biology.
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102 | Maria Konnikova on Poker, Psychology, and Reason
The best chess and Go players in the world aren’t human beings any more; they’re artificially-intelligent computer programs. But the
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101 | David Baltimore on the Mysteries of Viruses
I recently saw an estimate that if you took all the novel coronaviruses in the world (the actual viruses, not
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100 | Solo: On Life and Its Meaning
A podcast only hits the century mark once! And for Mindscape, this is it. There have been holiday messages and
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99 | Scott Aaronson on Complexity, Computation, and Quantum Gravity
There are some problems for which it’s very hard to find the answer, but very easy to check the answer
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