Holiday Message 2018
There won’t be any regular episodes of Mindscape this week or next, as we take a holiday break. Regular service […]
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Episode 27: Janna Levin on Black Holes, Chaos, and the Narrative of Science
It’s a big universe out there, full of an astonishing variety of questions and puzzles. Today’s guest, Janna Levin, is
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Episode 26: Ge Wang on Artful Design, Computers, and Music
Everywhere around us are things that serve functions. We live in houses, sit on chairs, drive in cars. But these
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Episode 25: David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation
The “Easy Problems” of consciousness have to do with how the brain takes in information, thinks about it, and turns
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Episode 24: Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar
I remember vividly hosting a colloquium speaker, about fifteen years ago, who talked about the LIGO gravitational-wave observatory, which had
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Episode 23: Lisa Aziz-Zadeh on Embodied Cognition, Mirror Neurons, and Empathy
Brains are important things; they’re where thinking happens. Or are they? The theory of “embodied cognition” posits that it’s better
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Episode 22: Joe Walston on Conservation, Urbanization, and the Way We Live on Earth
There’s no question that human activity is causing enormous changes on our planet’s environment, from deforestation to mass extinction to
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Episode 21: Alex Rosenberg on Naturalism, History, and Theory of Mind
We humans love to tell ourselves stories about why things happened the way they did; if the stories are sufficiently
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Episode 20: Scott Derrickson on Cinema, Blockbusters, Horror, and Mystery
Special Halloween edition? Scott Derrickson is a film-lover first and a director second, but he’s been quite successful at the
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Episode 19: Tyler Cowen on Maximizing Growth and Thinking for the Future
Economics, like other sciences (social and otherwise), is about what the world does; but it’s natural for economists to occasionally
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