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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   Joseph Silk

   243 | Joseph Silk on Science on the Moon · Jul 2023

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   Justin Clarke-Doane

   137 | Justin Clarke-Doane on Mathematics, Morality, Objectivity, and Reality · Mar 2021

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   Karen Lloyd

   314 | Karen Lloyd on the Deep Underground Biosphere · May 2025

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   Kate Adamala

   56 | Kate Adamala on Creating Synthetic Life · Jul 2019

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   Kate Jeffery

   67 | Kate Jeffery on Entropy, Complexity, and Evolution · Oct 2019

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   Katie Elliott

   244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation · Jul 2023

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   Katie Mack

   70 | Katie Mack on How the Universe Will End · Oct 2019

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   Kevin Hand

   92 | Kevin Hand on Life Elsewhere in the Solar System · Apr 2020

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   Kevin Peterson

   307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails · Mar 2025

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    Kevin Zollman

    337 | Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning · Dec 2025

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    Kieran Healy

    278 | Kieran Healy on the Technology of Ranking People · Jun 2024

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    Lara Buchak

    220 | Lara Buchak on Risk and Rationality · Dec 2022

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    Lea Goentoro

    190 | Lea Goentoro on Regrowing Limbs · Mar 2022

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    Leonard Susskind

    45 | Leonard Susskind on Quantum Information, Quantum Gravity, and Holography · May 2019

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    Leslie Valiant

    272 | Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People · Apr 2024

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    Liam Kofi Bright

    95 | Liam Kofi Bright on Knowledge, Truth, and Science · May 2020

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    Lina Necib

    96 | Lina Necib on What and Where the Dark Matter Is · May 2020

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    Lisa Aziz-Zadeh

    23 | Lisa Aziz-Zadeh on Embodied Cognition, Mirror Neurons, and Empathy · Nov 2018

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    Luis Bettencourt

    362 | Luis Bettencourt on the Universal Properties of Self-Organizing Cities · Jul 2026

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    Lynne Kelly

    60 | Lynne Kelly on Memory Palaces, Ancient and Modern · Aug 2019

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    Malcolm MacIver

    39 | Malcolm MacIver on Sensing, Consciousness, and Imagination · Mar 2019

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    Marc Kamionkowski

    310 | Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies · Mar 2025

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    Margaret Levi

    217 | Margaret Levi on Moral Political Economy · Nov 2022

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    Mari Ruti

    159 | Mari Ruti on Lack, Love, and Psychoanalysis · Aug 2021

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    Marq de Villiers

    48 | Marq de Villiers on Hell and Damnation · May 2019

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    Matt Strassler

    268 | Matt Strassler on Relativity, Fields, and the Language of Reality · Mar 2024

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    Matthew Luczy

    43 | Matthew Luczy on the Pleasures of Wine · Apr 2019

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    Megan Rosenbloom

    10 | Megan Rosenbloom on the Death Positive Movement · Aug 2018

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    Michael Dine

    183 | Michael Dine on Supersymmetry, Anthropics, and the Future of Particle Physics · Feb 2022

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    Michael Muthukrishna

    255 | Michael Muthukrishna on Developing a Theory of Everyone · Oct 2023

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    Michael Tomasello

    225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency · Jan 2023

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    Michael Wong

    299 | Michael Wong on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life · Dec 2024

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    Molly Crockett

    227 | Molly Crockett on the Psychology of Morality · Feb 2023

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    Monika Schleier-Smith

    177 | Monika Schleier-Smith on Cold Atoms and Emergent Spacetime · Dec 2021

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    N.J. Enfield

    203 | N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists · Jul 2022

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    Natalie Batalha

    326 | Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets · Aug 2025

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    Ned Block

    339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology · Jan 2026

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    Ned Hall

    76 | Ned Hall on Possible Worlds and the Laws of Nature · Dec 2019

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    Neha Narula

    13 | Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the Internet · Sep 2018

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    Neil Johnson

    110 | Neil Johnson on Complexity, Conflict, and Infodemiology · Aug 2020

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