341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

Hello everyone, welcome to the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. I don't know if you know, but recently the Golden Globes happened. This is one of those award shows where they give prizes to movie stars and TV stars and things like that. But they had a new category at the Golden Globes this year, Best.

Podcast. The Mindscape podcast did not win Best Podcast. It was not nominated. It was probably not even noticed by the people who did the nominating and deciding who was going to be on the list. You know, what can we say?

This our civilization continues to let me down in various ways, but I can't complain too much. The winner of Best Podcast this year was Amy Polar. uh who won for her podcast Good Hang with Amy Polar, which I think I'd mentioned uh previously. And it's a good podcast. You know, all of the people who actually were nominated, you know, entertainers, comedians, and whatever, not a lot of natural philosophers were represented.

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