# Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522.md RSS feed: https://rss.libsyn.com/shows/604590/destinations/5264190.xml Official site: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/ Author: Sean Carroll Episodes: 436 ## Resource 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. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522.md ## Episodes - [361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/361-bonnie-bassler-on-how-bacteria-talk-and-work-together) — 2026-07-20T13:23:00+00:00 - [Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | July 2026](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/mindscape-ask-me-anything-sean-carroll-july-2026) — 2026-07-13T11:34:00+00:00 - [360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/360-marc-berman-on-the-science-of-touching-grass) — 2026-07-06T11:35:00+00:00 - [359 | Solo: Theories of Dark Energy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/359-solo-theories-of-dark-energy) — 2026-06-29T11:05:00+00:00 - [358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/358-solo-vacuum-energy-and-the-cosmological-constant) — 2026-06-22T06:48:00+00:00 - [357 | Jeff Coller on mRNA, Vaccines, and Bespoke Therapeutics](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/357-jeff-coller-on-mrna-vaccines-and-bespoke-therapeutics) — 2026-06-15T11:15:00+00:00 - [356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/356-andrea-wulf-on-enlightenment-nature-romanticism-and-modernity) — 2026-06-08T06:52:00+00:00 - [AMA | June 2026](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/ama-june-2026) — 2026-06-01T11:09:00+00:00 - [355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/355-solo-looking-quantum-mechanics-in-the-eyeball) — 2026-05-24T13:56:00+00:00 - [354 | Christian List on Free Will and Levels of Reality](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/354-christian-list-on-free-will-and-levels-of-reality) — 2026-05-18T12:04:00+00:00 - [353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested Markets](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/353-alvin-roth-on-the-economics-of-morally-contested-markets) — 2026-05-11T10:00:00+00:00 - [AMA | May 2026](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/ama-may-2026) — 2026-05-04T11:56:00+00:00 - [352 | Bing Brunton on Connecting the Connectome to the Body](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/352-bing-brunton-on-connecting-the-connectome-to-the-body) — 2026-04-27T10:00:00+00:00 - [351 | Peter Singer on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/351-peter-singer-on-maximizing-good-for-all-sentient-creatures) — 2026-04-20T11:43:00+00:00 - [350 | J. Eric Oliver on the Self and How to Know It](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/350-j-eric-oliver-on-the-self-and-how-to-know-it) — 2026-04-13T12:28:00+00:00 - [AMA | April 2026](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/ama-april-2026) — 2026-04-05T13:37:00+00:00 - [349 | Daniel Harlow on What Quantum Gravity Teaches Us About Quantum Mechanics](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/349-daniel-harlow-on-what-quantum-gravity-teaches-us-about-quantum-mechanics) — 2026-03-30T13:36:00+00:00 - [348 | Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/348-jessica-riskin-on-jean-baptiste-lamarck-and-life-as-creative-agency) — 2026-03-23T11:42:00+00:00 - [347 | Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on How Your Data Will Be Used Against You](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/347-andrew-guthrie-ferguson-on-how-your-data-will-be-used-against-you) — 2026-03-16T12:43:00+00:00 - [346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and Play](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/346-erica-cartmill-on-how-human-and-animal-minds-think-and-play) — 2026-03-09T12:27:00+00:00 - [AMA | March 2026](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/ama-march-2026) — 2026-03-02T20:33:00+00:00 - [345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/345-adam-elga-on-being-rational-in-a-very-large-universe) — 2026-02-23T15:21:00+00:00 - [344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/344-adam-gurri-on-liberal-democracy-and-how-to-fight-for-it) — 2026-02-16T13:37:00+00:00 - [343 | Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/343-tom-griffiths-on-the-laws-of-thought) — 2026-02-09T13:08:00+00:00 - [AMA | Feb 2026](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/ama-feb-2026) — 2026-02-02T13:18:00+00:00 - [342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/342-rachell-powell-on-evolutionary-convergence-morality-and-mind) — 2026-01-26T13:00:00+00:00 - [341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/341-stewart-brand-on-maintenance-as-an-organizing-principle) — 2026-01-19T13:00:00+00:00 - [340 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/340-rebecca-newberger-goldstein-on-what-matters-and-why-it-matters) — 2026-01-12T14:30:00+00:00 - [339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/339-ned-block-on-whether-consciousness-requires-biology) — 2026-01-05T14:00:00+00:00 - [Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/holiday-message-2025-the-romance-of-the-university) — 2025-12-22T14:00:00+00:00 - [AMA | December 2025](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/ama-december-2025) — 2025-12-15T13:00:00+00:00 - [338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/338-ryan-patterson-on-the-physics-of-neutrinos) — 2025-12-08T13:00:00+00:00 - [337 | Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/337-kevin-zollman-on-game-theory-signals-and-meaning) — 2025-12-01T12:30:00+00:00 - [336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas-444522/336-anil-ananthaswamy-on-the-mathematics-of-neural-nets-and-ai) — 2025-11-24T05:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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