142 | Charlie Jane Anders on Stories and How to Write Them
Telling a story seems like the most natural, human thing in the world. We all do it, all the time. And who amongst us doesn't think we could be a fairly competent novelist, if we just bothered to take...
12 Apr 20211h 26min
141 | Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World
In a world flooded with information, everybody necessarily makes choices about what we pay attention to. This basic fact can be manipulated in any number of ways, from advertisers micro-targeting spec...
5 Apr 20211h 17min
140 | Dean Buonomano on Time, Reality, and the Brain
"Time" and "the brain" are two of those things that are somewhat mysterious, but it would be hard for us to live without. So just imagine how much fun it is to bring them together. Dean Buonomano is o...
29 Mar 20211h 27min
139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology
Imagine two people with exactly the same innate abilities, but one is born into a wealthy family and the other is born into poverty. Or two people born into similar circumstances, but one is paralyzed...
22 Mar 20211h 19min
138 | Daryl Morey on Analytics, Psychology, and Basketball
You might think that human beings, exhausted by competing for resources and rewards in the real world, would take it easy and stick to cooperation in their spare time. But no; we are fascinated by com...
15 Mar 20211h 16min
AMA | March 2021
Welcome to the March 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). With an expanding number of questions, it's become ...
10 Mar 20213h 11min
137 | Justin Clarke-Doane on Mathematics, Morality, Objectivity, and Reality
On a spectrum of philosophical topics, one might be tempted to put mathematics and morality on opposite ends. Math is one of the most pristine and rigorously-developed areas of human thought, while mo...
8 Mar 20211h 32min
136 | Roderick Graham on Cyberspace, Race, and Cultural Conservatism
The internet has made it so much easier for people to talk to each other, in a literal sense. But it hasn't necessarily made it easier to have rewarding, productive, good-faith conversations. Here I t...
1 Mar 20211h 23min
