Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black hol

Episodes

Total: 358

AMA | February 2023

2023/2/6

Welcome to the February 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are fund

Human beings have developed wondrous capacities to take in information about the world, mull it over

So you have some information — how are you going to share it with and present it to the rest of the

There are few human impulses more primal than the desire for explanations. We have expectations conc

Quantum gravity research is inspired by experiment — all of the experimental data that supports quan

One of the most powerful of all human capacities is the ability to imagine ourselves in hypothetical

Welcome to that beloved Mindscape annual tradition, the Holiday Message. An opportunity for a quicke

Life is rich with moments of uncertainty, where we’re not exactly sure what’s going to happen next.

AMA | December 2022

2022/12/5

Welcome to the December 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are fund

It’s easy enough to proclaim that we are curious creatures, but what does that really mean? What kin

Stephen Hawking’s discoveries of black hole radiation, entropy, and the information-loss problem hav

Why do people voluntarily hand over authority to a government? Under what conditions should&nbs

AMA | November 2022

2022/11/7

Welcome to the November 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are fund

People have a complicated relationship to mathematics. We all use it in our everyday lives, from cal

The founders of statistical mechanics in the 19th century faced an uphill battle to convince their f

It’s a big universe we live in, so it comes as no surprise that big numbers are needed to describe i

AMA | October 2022

2022/10/10

Welcome to the October 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funde

With communication satellites, weather satellites, GPS, and much more, what happens in space is alre

The detection of gravitational waves from inspiraling black holes by the LIGO and Virgo collaboratio

My little pandemic-lockdown contribution to the world was a series of videos called T