AMA | July 2022

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

Sean Carroll | Wondery

Society & Culture, Physics, Philosophy, Science, Ideas, Society

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 206 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the July 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic.

Big news this week! Mindscape is working with Bold.org to sponsor a college scholarship for students interested in studying the fundamental nature of reality. Listeners can find more details and donate here. Our immediate goal is to raise $10,000, and I will match the first $5,000, so this shouldn’t be too hard for us here. Hopefully we can raise much more! And hopefully this will help encourage someone who might not otherwise have been able to study this kind of topic.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll, and this
0:05.0	is one of our regular AMA, Ask Me Anything episodes, which used to be bonuses, but due
0:10.6	to increased responsibilities of various sorts, these are now counting as regular Monday
0:16.8	episodes. Those responsibilities, of course, being my new job at Johns Hopkins, where
0:22.3	I am reporting from right now, or at least I'm reporting from Baltimore. We have just moved,
0:26.8	Jennifer and I, we're in our temporary little digs here in an apartment building. So it's
0:32.2	not quite the smooth, ready to go set up that I had back in LA in terms of recording the
0:37.0	podcast. Hopefully this will all go good. But if there are noises or whatever that are
0:43.8	unpredictable, that's just the kind of thing that we have to deal with in life. Anyway,
0:48.0	I don't want to really dwell on that because I have a big, fun announcement for Mindscape
0:52.2	listeners. It's fun for me. Anyway, I'm very excited. We are going to be sponsoring
0:56.8	a scholarship for college students, or at least one student, hopefully. The idea is with
1:03.3	the organization called Bold, B-O-L-D, Bold.org is an organization that helps people sponsor
1:10.2	scholarships for college students. And so they reached out and basically proposed that the
1:15.2	Mindscape community can contribute to sending someone to college, or at least partly defraining
1:21.5	the cost of going to college. Not all the costs, sadly. We know the costs of going to college
1:26.1	these days are a little bit extreme, but we're looking to raise $10,000 or more. And it's
1:32.0	going to be easier than that sounds because I'm going to match the first $5,000. What that
1:37.2	means is if we get $5,000 of other people donating, I will match up to that to make it $10,000
1:43.8	total. And if we go beyond that, that's great. I will stop matching because I will run out
1:48.2	of money. But we can raise as much as we can. And $10,000 will go to a deserving student.
1:56.1	And the next $10,000 will go to another deserving student, et cetera. It's certainly not enough
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