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  1. AMA | February 2025

    Welcome to the February 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more mana

  2. 303 | James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System

    A typical human lifespan is approximately three billion heartbeats in duration. Lasting that long requires not only intrinsic stability, but an impressive capacity for self-repair. Nevertheless, things do occasionally break down, and cancer

  3. 302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution

    Randomness plays an important role in the evolution of life (as my evil twin will tell you). But random doesn't mean arbitrary. Biological organisms are physical objects, after all, and subject to the same laws of physics as non-biological

  4. 301 | Tina Eliassi-Rad on Al, Networks, and Epistemic Instability

    Big data is ruling, or at least deeply infiltrating, all of modern existence. Unprecedented capacity for collecting and analyzing large amounts of data have given us a new generation of artificial intelligence models, but also everything fr

  5. 300 | Solo: Does Time Exist?

    A new year, and a new centennial -- 300 (regularly-numbered) episodes of Mindscape! Our tradition is to have a solo episode, and what better topic than the nature of time? Physicists and philosophers have so frequently suggested that time i

  6. Holiday Message | Hits and Misses

    It's the end of the year, and time for our annual holiday break here at Mindscape. But as usual, we wrap up with a Holiday Message. This year, inspired by Joni Mitchell's "Hits" and "Misses" albums, I go through my scientific papers and tal

  7. 299 | Michael Wong on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life

    Living organisms seem exquisitely organized and complex, with features clearly adapted to serving certain functions needed to survive and procreate. Natural selection provides a compelling explanation for why that is so. But is there a bigg

  8. 298 | Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain

    The number of neurons in the human brain is comparable to the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Unlike the stars, however, in the case of neurons the real action is in how they are directly connected to each other: receiving signals

  9. AMA | December 2024

    Welcome to the December 2024 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more mana

  10. 297 | Emily Wilson on Homer, Poetry, and Translation

    Not too long ago, Brad Pitt and Eric Bana starred in a (loose) adaptation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_(film)) of Homer's epic poem The Iliad; next month, Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche will headline a film based on The Odyssey.

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