278 | Kieran Healy on the Technology of Ranking People
We claim to love all of our children, friends, and students equally. But perhaps deep down you assign a ranking […]
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Humanity
273 | Stefanos Geroulanos on the Invention of Prehistory
Humanity itself might be the hardest thing for scientists to study fairly and accurately. Not only do we come to
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272 | Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People
Science is enabled by the fact that the natural world exhibits predictability and regularity, at least to some extent. Scientists
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270 | Solo: The Coming Transition in How Humanity Lives
Technology is changing the world, in good and bad ways. Artificial intelligence, internet connectivity, biological engineering, and climate change are
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267 | Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia
The twentieth century was something, wasn’t it? Margaret Mead, as well as her onetime-husband Gregory Bateson, managed to play roles
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Holiday Message 2023 | Reflections on Immortality
The final Mindscape podcast of each year is devoted to a short, reflective Holiday Message. This year the theme is
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255 | Michael Muthukrishna on Developing a Theory of Everyone
A “Theory of Everything” is physicists’ somewhat tongue-in-cheek phrase for a hypothetical model of all the fundamental physical interactions. Of
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228 | Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Authenticity
God is dead, as Nietzsche’s madman memorably reminded us. So what are we going to do about it? If there
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226 | Johanna Hoffman on Speculative Futures of Cities
Cities are incredibly important to modern life, and their importance is only growing. As Geoffrey West points out, the world
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225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
Human beings have developed wondrous capacities to take in information about the world, mull it over, think about a suite
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