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1 month ago | 
audible.com | Kat Johnson |Carlo Rovelli |Brian Greene |Sean Carroll
Note: Text has been lightly edited for clarity and does not match audio exactly. Kat Johnson: Hi, listeners. This is Audible Editor Kat Johnson, and my guest today is Annaka Harris, bestselling author of Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind. She's also an editor and consultant for science writers, the author of the children's book I Wonder, and the creator of wonderful guided meditations for both kids and adults.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
mcnallyrobinson.com | Sean Carroll
Wednesday, May 01, 2024 at 4:22pm
Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, and Fractal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He is host of the Mindscape podcast, and author of From Eternity to Here, The Particle at the End of the Universe, The Big Picture, and Something Deeply Hidden.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll | Big Think | September 4, 2024 In modern times, our lives have changed tremendously by gaining control over nature.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
bigthink.com | Sean Carroll
In modern times, our lives have changed tremendously by gaining control over nature. The advent of vaccines, antibiotics, antivirals, and better sanitation has dramatically reduced our physiological challenges. In the present day, we enjoy a much more secure food supply than we did a hundred years ago. We live at a time where cultural evolution can be very, very, very rapid, but our biological evolution seems relatively stunted. Why is this?
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
player.fm | Sean Carroll
For those of us who are not dualists, the mind arises from our physical bodies -- mostly the brain, but the rest of the body has a role to play. And yet it remains tempting to treat the mind as a thing in itself, disconnected from how the body is doing. Ellen Langer is a psychologist who is one of the foremost researchers on the idea of mindfulness -- the cognitive skill of paying to one's thoughts, as well as to one's external environment.
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May 13, 2024 | 
player.fm | Sean Carroll
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May 6, 2024 | 
player.fm | Sean Carroll |Rose Eveleth |Joan Halifax
Every creative work you’ve ever loved has a hero’s journey behind it. On Spark & Fire, you'll hear creators tell the story of bringing one beloved work to life. Iconic creatives — like Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz, Pixar director Domee Shi, comedian Patton Oswald, musician Wynton Marsalis, and novelist Isabel Allende — share the endless iterations, the inevitable setbacks, and the breakthrough ideas along the epic process of creation. But this isn’t an interview show. It’s a story — told ...
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May 3, 2024 | 
bigthink.com | Sean Carroll
SEAN B. CARROLL: When you think about the long history of life on Earth, you might sort of think, "Well, it's been this progression almost as though it had a direction, almost had a purpose." Not at all. It's an incredible series of accidents that's given us the world we know today. And this is really a deep philosophical rub for humanity.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
bigthink.com | Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll: I think that once you learn about the second law of thermodynamics, it can be a little depressing. You've been told that there's a fundamental feature of reality: that disorder increases, that things just wind down, right? That batteries run out, that cream and coffee mix together, that ice cubes melt. It's kind of a depressing view of the future. How did all of this interestingness come about in the first place?
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
triblive.com | Sean Carroll
I’ve just received by mail-in ballot for the April 23 primary election, and I’m excited to take a look at the choices and cast my votes. Having the opportunity to send my votes on a mail-in ballot is convenient, safe and legitimate. With my actual live ballot in hand, I have weeks, in the privacy of my own home, to take the time I need to review my choices, research the candidates and issues, and make my final votes.
