Sean Carroll

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.

366 | Jim Al-Khalili on Time, Quantum, Biology, and Cosmology

Everyone lives through time, but we continue to struggle to fully understand it.

Free Will: Does It Exist?

Will you hit play on this episode?? It feels like that decision is totally within your control — but what if it’s not? What if free will is just an illusion?

362 | Luis Bettencourt on the Universal Properties of Self-Organizing Cities

People who live in large cities produce more patents per person than those who live in small towns. They also walk faster down the street, and use less infrastructure per person.

355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball – Sean Carroll