Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black hol
We all know stereotypes about people from different countries; but we also recognize that there real
Welcome to the third annual Mindscape Holiday Message! Just a chance for me to be a little more chat
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Getting into the swing of things here with monthly Ask Me Anything episodes. If you missed the expla
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Time! It doesn’t stop, psychological effects of being under lockdown notwithstanding. How we experie
As you have likely heard me mention before, I have an account on Patreon, where people can sign
Emotions are at the same time utterly central to who we are — where would we be without them? — and
Imagine you were locked in a sealed room, with no way to access the outside world but a few screens
This episode is published on November 2, 2020, the day before an historic election in the United Sta
Erwin Schrödinger’s famous book What Is Life? highlighted the connections between physics,
In the service of seeking truth, there would seem to be value in intellectual diversity, both in kee
Astronomers rocked the cosmological world with the 1998 discovery that the universe is accelerating.
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How can, and should, we talk to each other, especially to people with whom we disagree? “Free speech
Stephen Hawking made a number of memorable contributions to physics, but perhaps his greatest w
Sexuality is, and always has been, a topic that is endlessly fascinating but also contentious. You m
You can’t always get what you want, as a wise person once said. But we do try, even when someone els
Not too long ago nobody carried a mobile phone; now almost everybody does. That’s the kind of rate o
