AMA | April 2025
Welcome to the April 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 Patre...
7 Apr 20253h 30min
310 | Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies
Cosmologists were, let us be honest, pretty stunned in 1998 when observations revealed that the universe is accelerating. There was an obvious plausible explanation, the cosmological constant proposed...
31 Mar 20251h 26min
309 | Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information
Consciousness is easier to possess than to define. One thing we can do is to look into the brain and see what lights up when conscious awareness is taking place. A complete understanding of this would...
24 Mar 20251h 20min
AMA | March 2025
Welcome to the March 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 Patre...
10 Mar 20252h 58min
307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails
A lot of science goes into crafting the perfect cocktail. Balancing sweet and bitter notes, providing the right amount of aeration and dilution, getting it to just the right temperature and keeping it...
3 Mar 20251h 16min
306 | Helen Czerski on Our Energetic Oceans
It is commonplace to refer to the Earth's oceans as vast and largely unexplored. But we do understand some aspects, and improving that understanding is crucial to ensuring the continued viability and ...
24 Feb 20251h 12min
305 | Lilliana Mason on Polarization and Political Psychology
Political outcomes would be relatively simple to predict and understand if only people were well-informed, entirely rational, and perfectly self-interested. Alas, real human beings are messy, emotiona...
17 Feb 20251h 17min
