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

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.

info_outline 340 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters 01/12/2026
info_outline 339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology 01/05/2026
info_outline Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University 12/22/2025
info_outline AMA | December 2025 12/15/2025
info_outline 338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos 12/08/2025
info_outline 337 | Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning 12/01/2025
info_outline 336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI 11/24/2025
info_outline AMA | November 2025 11/17/2025
info_outline 335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe 11/10/2025
info_outline 334 | Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens 11/03/2025
info_outline 333 | Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them 10/27/2025
info_outline 332 | Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music 10/20/2025
info_outline AMA | October 2025 10/13/2025
info_outline 331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse 10/06/2025
info_outline 330 | Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information 09/29/2025
info_outline 329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge 09/22/2025
info_outline 328 | Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies 09/15/2025
info_outline AMA | September 2025 09/08/2025
info_outline 327 | Cass Sunstein on Liberalism 09/01/2025
info_outline 326 | Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets 08/25/2025
info_outline 325 | Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixels, and the Great Digital Convergence 08/18/2025
info_outline 324 | Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research 08/11/2025
info_outline AMA | August 2025 08/04/2025
info_outline 323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics 07/28/2025
info_outline 322 | Philip Pettit on Language, Agency, Politics, and Freedom 07/21/2025
info_outline 321 | David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory 07/14/2025
info_outline AMA | July 2025 07/07/2025
info_outline 320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe 06/30/2025
info_outline 319 | Bryan Van Norden on Philosophy From the Rest of the World 06/23/2025
info_outline 318 | Edward Miguel on the Developing Practice of Development Economics 06/16/2025
 
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