Sean Carroll's Mindscape

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.

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Every guest on Sean Carroll's Mindscape

345 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Tim Maudlin

   241 | Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations · Jun 2023

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   Yascha Mounk

   7 | Yascha Mounk on Threats to Liberal Democracy · Jul 2018

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   Zeynep Tufekci

   141 | Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World · Apr 2021

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   Carlo Rovelli

   2 | Carlo Rovelli on Quantum Mechanics, Spacetime, and Reality · Jul 2018

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   Jim Al-Khalili

   366 | Jim Al-Khalili on Time, Quantum, Biology, and Cosmology · Aug 2026

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   Sylvia Earle

   173 | Sylvia Earle on the Oceans, the Planet, and People · Nov 2021

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   Venki Ramakrishnan

   291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging · Sep 2024

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   Cornel West

   121 | Cornel West on What Democracy Is and Should Be · Nov 2020

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   Ellen Langer

   279 | Ellen Langer on Mindfulness and the Body · Jun 2024

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    Emily Wilson

    297 | Emily Wilson on Homer, Poetry, and Translation · Nov 2024

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    Erich Jarvis

    127 | Erich Jarvis on Language, Birds, and People · Dec 2020

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    Jane McGonigal

    191 | Jane McGonigal on How to Imagine the Future · Apr 2022

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    Marc Berman

    360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass · Jul 2026

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    Naomi Oreskes

    32 | Naomi Oreskes on Climate Change and the Distortion of Scientific Facts · Feb 2019

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    Alison Gopnik

    308 | Alison Gopnik on Children, AI, and Modes of Thinking · Mar 2025

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    Amy Finkelstein

    232 | Amy Finkelstein on Adverse Selection and Hidden Information · Apr 2023

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    Angela Chen

    114 | Angela Chen on Asexuality in a Sex-Preoccupied World · Sep 2020

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    Annalee Newitz

    17 | Annalee Newitz on Science, Fiction, Economics, and Neurosis · Oct 2018

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    Azra Raza

    77 | Azra Raza on The Way We Should Fight Cancer · Dec 2019

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    Brooke Harrington

    237 | Brooke Harrington on Offshore Wealth as a Complex System · May 2023

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    Cailin O'Connor

    113 | Cailin O'Connor on Game Theory, Evolution, and the Origins of Unfairness · Sep 2020

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    Carol Tavris

    1 | Carol Tavris on Mistakes, Justification, and Cognitive Dissonance · Jul 2018

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    Christopher Mims

    171 | Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology · Nov 2021

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    Derek Guy

    257 | Derek Guy on the Theory and Practice of Dressing Well · Nov 2023

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    Edward Miguel

    318 | Edward Miguel on the Developing Practice of Development Economics · Jun 2025

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    Jessica Yellin

    35 | Jessica Yellin on The Changing Ways We Get Our News · Feb 2019

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    Kip Thorne

    24 | Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar · Nov 2018

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    Leidy Klotz

    162 | Leidy Klotz on Our Resistance to Subtractive Change · Aug 2021

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    Lera Boroditsky

    89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time · Mar 2020

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    Mike Brown

    11 | Mike Brown on Killing Pluto and Replacing It with Planet 9 · Aug 2018

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    Neil Shubin

    88 | Neil Shubin on Evolution, Genes, and Dramatic Transitions · Mar 2020

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    Steven Strogatz

    41 | Steven Strogatz on Synchronization, Networks, and the Emergence of Complex Behavior · Apr 2019

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    Stewart Brand

    341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle · Jan 2026

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    Tania Lombrozo

    223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are · Jan 2023

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    Alan Lightman

    38 | Alan Lightman on Transcendence, Science, and a Naturalist's Sense of Meaning · Mar 2019

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    Alex Rosenberg

    21 | Alex Rosenberg on Naturalism, History, and Theory of Mind · Nov 2018

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    Brad DeLong

    209 | Brad DeLong on Why the 20th Century Fell Short of Utopia · Sep 2022

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    Cesar Hidalgo

    72 | César Hidalgo on Information in Societies, Economies, and the Universe · Nov 2019

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    Elizabeth Anderson

    139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology · Mar 2021

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    Henry Farrell

    148 | Henry Farrell on Democracy as a Problem-Solving Mechanism · May 2021

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