Sean Carroll
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Colin Camerer on the Neuroscience of Economic Thinking | Mindscape 373
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: Economics often starts with an assumption that people are rational maximizers of their own self-interest; but it doesn't stop there.
Erik Winfree on DNA Robots and Computers | Mindscape 272
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: When we think of computers, we think of machines running on some kind of silicon chips.
Kyle Harper on How Humans Have Shaped Life on Earth | Mindscape 371
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: Humanity is merely one species out of millions living on Earth, but we have a disproportionate impact on the rest of the biosphere.
Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | October 2026
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: Welcome to the October 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape!
Daniel Akerib on a Faint Hint of Dark Matter | Mindscape 370
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: One reason it's been so hard to directly detect the dark matter is that we're not sure what it is.
370 | Daniel Akerib on a Faint Hint of Dark Matter
One reason it's been so hard to directly detect the dark matter is that we're not sure what it is.
Gregg Caruso on Living Well Without Free Will | Mindscape 369
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: The worry about debates over free will is that they degenerate into semantics -- what do you mean by "free will," really?
Elizabeth Alexander on Why Democracy Needs Imagination | Mindscape 368
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: In all sorts of ways, the modern world makes it difficult to nurture our individual humanity and connect with the humanity of others.
Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | September 2026
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: Welcome to the September 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape!
Jared Diamond on the Course of History and the Role of Leaders | Mindscape 367
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: The course of history is affected by many things, including the political and social situations of large groups of people, their biological and…