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Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black holes work? Do you wonder why you get emotional each time you see a certain movie, or how on earth video games are designed? Then you've come to the right place. Each week, Sean Carroll will host conversations with some of the most interesting thinkers in the world. From neuroscientists and engineers to authors and television producers, Sean and his guests talk about the biggest ideas in science, philosophy, culture and much more.
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Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | July 2026
Jul 13, 2026
Welcome to the July 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by…
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360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass
Jul 06, 2026
Modern life has, in many ways, removed us from the environments in which our ancestors lived and adapted. Not only do we spend time looking at screens, but we spend time indoors, or outdoors but in…
359 | Solo: Theories of Dark Energy
Jun 29, 2026
The cosmological constant, as discussed last episode, provides a perfectly good (thus far) explanation for why we observe the universe to be accelerating. But it might not be the right explanation…
358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant
Jun 22, 2026
The most surprising discovery in fundamental physics during my career as a scientist was undoubtedly the acceleration of the universe, announced in 1998. The most straightforward explanation for…
357 | Jeff Coller on mRNA, Vaccines, and Bespoke Therapeutics
Jun 15, 2026
Messenger RNA (mRNA) plays a literally central role in the functioning of life as we know it, shuttling information back and forth between the DNA where it is stored to the ribosome where it is used…
356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity
Jun 08, 2026
All ideas have a history, no matter how inevitable and well-entrenched they may seem to us today. The later Enlightenment was a heady time when people were exploring new conceptions of nature…
AMA | June 2026
Jun 01, 2026
Welcome to the June 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by…
355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball
May 24, 2026
One of the major obstacles to understanding quantum mechanics is the difficulty we have in simply accepting what the theory itself is telling us. The problem is that we know what the everyday world…
354 | Christian List on Free Will and Levels of Reality
May 18, 2026
Did I have any freedom in choosing this particular podcast guest? At the level of particles, fields, and the fundamental laws of physics; no. At the level of human agents navigating the world, yes…
353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested Markets
May 11, 2026
Economic markets are efficient ways of deciding fair prices, at least in ideal circumstances of perfect competition, information, and choice. But there is more to life than fair prices. Two people…
AMA | May 2026
May 04, 2026
Welcome to the May 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by…
352 | Bing Brunton on Connecting the Connectome to the Body
Apr 27, 2026
The connectome is the wiring diagram of a brain, a big matrix that tells us what neurons talk to what other neurons. Understanding it is an important step to understanding how brains work, but a long…
351 | Peter Singer on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures
Apr 20, 2026
Peter Singer has been an influential philosopher for a number of decades. He was a significant early voice in animal rights, has been a leading thinker of utilitarianism, and helped inspire the…
350 | J. Eric Oliver on the Self and How to Know It
Apr 13, 2026
We are more familiar with ourselves than with anything else in the universe, but we generally don't come very close to really understanding what our "self" is. That's not too surprising, as selves…
AMA | April 2026
Apr 05, 2026
Welcome to the April 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by…
349 | Daniel Harlow on What Quantum Gravity Teaches Us About Quantum Mechanics
Mar 30, 2026
There is something special about gravity. After decades of effort, there is still no convergence on the right way to reconcile Einstein's theory of general relativity with the framework of quantum…
348 | Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency
Mar 23, 2026
"Lamarkism" is a term often attached to a seemingly discredited idea in evolutionary biology: that one organism could acquire characteristics (e.g., becoming stronger through exercise) that would…
347 | Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on How Your Data Will Be Used Against You
Mar 16, 2026
In the 18th century, philosopher Jeremy Bentham suggested the Panopticon as a model of a prison where inmates could be constantly observed by just a single prison guard. Although his original idea…
346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and Play
Mar 09, 2026
Intelligence is a many splendored thing, especially when it comes to comparisons between species. Chimpanzees are better than humans at some numerical tasks, but less good at understanding what…
AMA | March 2026
Mar 02, 2026
Welcome to the March 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by…
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe
Feb 23, 2026
Behaving rationally involves facing up to conditions of uncertainty; we never navigate the world with perfect confidence. Sometimes we are uncertain about the way the world is, but we can also be…
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It
Feb 16, 2026
It's possible to look at the course of history over the past few centuries and discern a movement toward increasing democracy, freedom, and individual rights -- "liberalism," in the…
343 | Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought
Feb 09, 2026
For all that human beings spend a lot of their time thinking, it's far from obvious what that process actually entails. Part of it amounts to classical logical reasoning. But an even bigger part…
AMA | Feb 2026
Feb 02, 2026
Welcome to the February 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by…
342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind
Jan 26, 2026
Evolution with natural selection involves an intricate mix of the random and the driven. Mutations are essentially random, while selection pressures work to prefer certain outcomes over others. There…
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle
Jan 19, 2026
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold," wrote W.B. Yeats. I don't know about the centre, but the tendency of things to fall apart is pretty universal, ultimately due to the Second Law of…
340 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters
Jan 12, 2026
At any given moment, an uncountable number of events are happening, but only some of them matter to us. What does it mean for something to matter, and more importantly, what does it mean for us to…
339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology
Jan 05, 2026
It's become increasingly clear that the Turing Test -- determining whether human interlocutors can tell whether a conversation is being carried out by a human or a machine -- is not a good way to…
Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University
Dec 22, 2025
Time for the holiday message! Rounding off the year with a brief and casual reflection on some issue that doesn't quite rise to the level of a full solo podcast. And hopefully something uplifting…
AMA | December 2025
Dec 15, 2025
Welcome to the December 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by…