Podcast

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

Author: Sean Carroll
Feed episode count: 436
Official site: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/
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Summary

Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black holes work? Do you wonder why you get emotional each time you see a certain movie, or how on earth video games are designed? Then you've come to the right place. Each week, Sean Carroll will host conversations with some of the most interesting thinkers in the world. From neuroscientists and engineers to authors and television producers, Sean and his guests talk about the biggest ideas in science, philosophy, culture and much more.

Episodes

Jul 20, 2026 · not_requested

361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together

Duration seconds: 4551
Source: https://preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/07/20/361-bonnie-bassler-on-how-bacteria-talk-and-work-together/

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Jul 13, 2026 · not_requested

Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | July 2026

Duration seconds: 14608
Source: https://preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/07/13/ama-july-2026/

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Jul 6, 2026 · not_requested

360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass

Duration seconds: 5380
Source: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/07/06/360-marc-berman-on-the-science-of-touching-grass/

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Jun 29, 2026 · not_requested

359 | Solo: Theories of Dark Energy

Duration seconds: 6971
Source: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/06/29/359-solo-theories-of-dark-energy/

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Jun 22, 2026 · not_requested

358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant

Duration seconds: 7190
Source: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/06/22/358-solo-vacuum-energy-and-the-cosmological-constant/

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Jun 15, 2026 · not_requested

357 | Jeff Coller on mRNA, Vaccines, and Bespoke Therapeutics

Duration seconds: 4791
Source: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/06/15/357-jeff-coller-on-mrna-vaccines-and-bespoke-therapeutics/

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Jun 8, 2026 · not_requested

356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity

Duration seconds: 4633
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Jun 1, 2026 · not_requested

AMA | June 2026

Duration seconds: 14249
Source: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/06/01/ama-june-2026/

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May 24, 2026 · not_requested

355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball

Duration seconds: 6265
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May 18, 2026 · not_requested

354 | Christian List on Free Will and Levels of Reality

Duration seconds: 5202
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May 11, 2026 · not_requested

353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested Markets

Duration seconds: 4304
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May 4, 2026 · not_requested

AMA | May 2026

Duration seconds: 14772
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Apr 27, 2026 · not_requested

352 | Bing Brunton on Connecting the Connectome to the Body

Duration seconds: 4450
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Apr 20, 2026 · not_requested

351 | Peter Singer on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures

Duration seconds: 4537
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Apr 13, 2026 · not_requested

350 | J. Eric Oliver on the Self and How to Know It

Duration seconds: 4872
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Apr 5, 2026 · not_requested

AMA | April 2026

Duration seconds: 13592
Source: https://1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e.libsyn.com/ama-april-2026

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Mar 30, 2026 · not_requested

349 | Daniel Harlow on What Quantum Gravity Teaches Us About Quantum Mechanics

Duration seconds: 5133
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Mar 23, 2026 · not_requested

348 | Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency

Duration seconds: 4509
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Mar 16, 2026 · not_requested

347 | Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on How Your Data Will Be Used Against You

Duration seconds: 4129
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Mar 9, 2026 · not_requested

346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and Play

Duration seconds: 5301
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Mar 2, 2026 · not_requested

AMA | March 2026

Duration seconds: 14003
Source: https://1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e.libsyn.com/ama-march-2026

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Feb 23, 2026 · not_requested

345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

Duration seconds: 5684
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Feb 16, 2026 · not_requested

344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

Duration seconds: 4865
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Feb 9, 2026 · not_requested

343 | Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought

Duration seconds: 4754
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Feb 2, 2026 · not_requested

AMA | Feb 2026

Duration seconds: 11420
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Jan 26, 2026 · not_requested

342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind

Duration seconds: 5835
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Jan 19, 2026 · not_requested

341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

Duration seconds: 4361
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Jan 12, 2026 · not_requested

340 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters

Duration seconds: 4697
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Jan 5, 2026 · not_requested

339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology

Duration seconds: 4262
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Dec 22, 2025 · not_requested

Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University

Duration seconds: 2571
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Dec 15, 2025 · not_requested

AMA | December 2025

Duration seconds: 13004
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Dec 8, 2025 · not_requested

338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos

Duration seconds: 5182
Source: https://1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e.libsyn.com/338-ryan-patterson-on-the-physics-of-neutrinos

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Dec 1, 2025 · not_requested

337 | Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning

Duration seconds: 4658
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Nov 24, 2025 · not_requested

336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI

Duration seconds: 4452
Source: https://1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e.libsyn.com/336-anil-ananthaswamy-on-the-mathematics-of-neural-nets-and-ai

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