AMA | July 2025

Hello everyone, welcome to the July 2025 Ask Me Anything edition of the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. As you know, if you listened to last week's solo episode, uh, I'm actually back now from traveling. Maybe you didn't know that. You knew I was traveling, and now I am back.

I was visiting Santa Fe, the Santa Fe Institute, uh, among other places. And now I'm back in the good old studio, so the audio quality should be back to where it normally is. And I thought I would start off the AMA with two anecdotes that I came back with from Santa Fe. They're only vaguely Santa Fe related. They're of of broader interest, I think.

One is when I was driving back to Albuquerque to catch the flight home to Baltimore, uh, killing time, I was looking for a podcast to listen to. In the car is the only time I really have to listen to podcasts, and The algorithm served me up an episode of Amy Polar's podcast called Good Hang. Not a uh sponsor of the Mindscape podcast, but that's okay. I'm uh happy to recommend Amy Polar's podcast if you like that kind of thing.

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