AMA | May 2025

Hello everyone, welcome to the May 2025 Ask Me Anything edition of the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. I thought that today, for this month's AMA, we would start off with some good news. A tiny piece of good news, a little miniature carving of good news in a world that has plenty of large-scale bad news going on, but you know, you have to look for those good little things. The good news is that Puck has been adopted.

He has found his forever home. Previous listeners of Mindscape AMAs will know that Puck is our stray cat. We have the permanent cats, Ariel and Caliban, who Patreon supporters are are well acquainted with. Puck was uh someone who showed up on our back porch a year and a half ago, and we fed him and nurtured him and sheltered him as an outdoor cat. Built a little cat door so we could come into the basement.

But at some point we said, look, we gotta get this kitty um fixed, we gotta get him shots, make sure he's okay. So we trapped him, took him to the vet, and as soon as he came inside, he fell in love with the idea of being an indoor cat. He was clearly luxury oriented. He loved the soft blankets and the cat towers and all that, had no interest whatsoever in going back outside, which was our original plan. Sadly,

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