Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 2025-06-02 · 203 min · 37,166 words

AMA | June 2025

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Hello everyone, welcome to the June 2025 Ask Me Anything edition to the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. Recording this a week before the AMA goes live because we have a busy week here today in Baltimore this week. This is the week of the first inaugural ever. Natural Philosophy Symposium, to be hosted here in Baltimore, organized by Jan Ismail and myself, the two of whom constitute the Natural Philosophy Forum at Johns Hopkins.

So it's a three-day conference. It'll already be over by the time you're listening to this. Hopefully it wasn't a disaster. I'm hoping for great things. If you're not able to go, then that's okay.

We're going to record everything. It'll be on YouTube at some point. We have an excellent crew of young Hopkins students, film students, who are doing that work. So it should be a very good record of what happened during the symposium. You know, we're trying to make natural philosophy a thing.

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