Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black hol
Changing technologies have always affected how we produce and enjoy art, and music might be the most
Maxwell's Demon is a famous thought experiment in which a mischievous imp uses knowledge of the velo
The human brain contains roughly 85 billion neurons, wired together in an extraordinarily complex ne
Cosmologists are always talking excitedly about the Big Bang and all the cool stuff that happened in
Like so many technological innovations, the internet is something that burst on the scene and pervad
Artificial intelligence is better than humans at playing chess or go, but still has trouble holding
Our observable universe started out in a highly non-generic state, one of very low entropy, and diso
The idea of “red states” and “blue states” burst on the scene during the 2000 U.S. Presidential elec
We had our fun last week, exploring how progress in renewable energy and electric vehicles may help
The Earth is heating up, and it’s our fault. But human beings are not always complete idiots (occasi
I suspect most loyal Mindscape listeners have been exposed to the fact that I’ve written a
Physicists study systems that are sufficiently simple that it’s possible to find deep unifying princ
All of us have been wrong about things from time to time. But sometimes it was a simple, forgivable
Memory takes different forms. Memories can be encoded in the strength of neural connections in our b
There are many mysteries surrounding quantum mechanics. To me, the biggest mysteries are why physici
Fiction shines a light on the human condition by putting people into imaginary situations and envisi
“Democracy may not exist, but we’ll miss it when it’s gone” — or so suggests the title of Astra Tayl
Scientists can’t quite agree on how to define “life,” but that hasn’t stopped them from studying it,
As you may have heard, I have a new book coming out in September, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum W
It doesn’t mean much to say music affects your brain — everything that happens to you affects your b
