202 | Andrew Papachristos on the Network Theory of Gun Violence
The United States is suffering from an epidemic of tragic gun violence. While a political debate rages around the topic of gun control, it remains important to understand the causes and possible remed...
27 Juni 20221h 15min
201 | Ed Yong on How Animals Sense the World
All of us construct models of the world, and update them on the basis of evidence brought to us by our senses. Scientists try to be more rigorous about it, but we all do it. It's natural that this pro...
20 Juni 20221h 9min
AMA | June 2022
Welcome to the June 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! We are inaugurating a slightly different publication schedule, in which these monthly AMA will take the place of one of the regular Monda...
13 Juni 20223h 4min
200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse
The 200th episode of Mindscape! Thanks to everyone for sticking around for this long. To celebrate, a solo episode discussing a set of issues naturally arising at the intersection of philosophy and ph...
6 Juni 20222h 14min
199 | Elizabeth Cohen on Time and Other Political Values
Time is everywhere, pervading each aspect of intellectual inquiry — from physics to philosophy to biology to psychology, and all the way up to politics. Considerations of time help govern a nation's s...
30 Maj 20221h 12min
198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology
The origin of life here on Earth was an important and fascinating event, but it was also a long time ago and hasn't left many pieces of direct evidence concerning what actually happened. One set of cl...
23 Maj 20221h 25min
197 | Catherine Brinkley on the Science of Cities
The concept of the city is a crucial one for human civilization: people living in proximity, bringing in resources from outside, separated from the labors of subsistence so they can engage in the trad...
16 Maj 20221h 8min
AMA | May 2022
Welcome to the May 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questio...
12 Maj 20223h 36min
