Ask Me Anything | October 2026
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Hello, everyone, welcome to the October 2026 Ask Me Anything edition of the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. Uh no long introduction today. I want to get into it, but just a couple of quick announcements. One announcement is that I'm still trying to get over a cold that I caught like a week and a half ago, but it's still like making me cough and affecting my voice. So If I sound a little husky That's why that might also happen in a couple of the regular episodes that I recorded of late recently. Uh I'm not gonna tell you which ones, but you know, just'cause you're at death's door, that's no reason you can't podcast. You gotta podcast through it. That's the only way uh to get things done. So we're gonna do it anyway. And the other announcement is there is a little post on the Patreon, if you want to go visit that. That's patreon.comslash Sean M Carol. Not that you have to join Patreon, but I just put on Patreon um a a couple of links to new useful web pages. So search for a public post a post that is open to anyone to read called
new useful web pages and will link you two different places. One is Andy Jiang, these are both listeners to the podcast, have just been kind enough. To set these up. I don't have time to do this kind of thing. So Andy uh set up a search site specifically for the AMAs. There's a search capability on the regular podcast webpage, which is preposterousuniverse dot com slash podcast. where you can search all of the episodes. But if you specifically want to go to the AMAs, you can go to Andy's website and um best to go to Patreon and look for the link, but if you want to know what the URL is, it's H T P colon slash slash
Mindscape. S E A R Get it? So like dot C H is if you're in Switzerland, but it's really spelling out Mindscape search. with a period before the CH. The other one is from Max Scrody and and he is
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