297 | Emily Wilson on Homer, Poetry, and Translation
Not too long ago, Brad Pitt and Eric Bana starred in a (loose) adaptation of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad; […]
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296 | Brandon Ogbunu on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution
Biological evolution via natural selection is a simple idea that becomes enormously complicated in its realization. Populations of organisms are
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295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality
Emergence is a centrally important concept in science and philosophy. Indeed, the existence of higher-level emergent properties helps render the
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AMA | November 2024
Welcome to the November 2024 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who
294 | Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life
Erwin Schrödinger said that the important characteristic of life is that it “goes on doing something… for a much longer
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293 | Doyne Farmer on Chaos, Crashes, and Economic Complexity
A large economy is one of the best examples we have of complex dynamics. There are multiple components arranged in
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292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience
It’s not immoral to kick a rock; it is immoral to kick a baby. At what point do we start
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AMA | October 2024
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291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging
Aging and death happen to the best of us, but there are increasing efforts to do something about it. That
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290 | Hahrie Han on Making Multicultural Democracy Work
It’s a wonder democracy works at all — a collection of people with potentially different interests have to agree to
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