Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | September 2026

Hello everyone, welcome to the September 2026 Ask Me Anything edition of the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll, and we should start today's uh AMA with corrections. I should do like a corrections column just like the New York Times has to do or something like that, right? Usually I try not to have many mistakes that need correcting, but had a couple of whoppers over the past month. I'm not going to blame advancing age, but perhaps the onset of the new semester.

We're now teaching again, it's the new semester starting has distracted me from getting things correct. So one obvious blunder was in the episode with Peter Cardoso, I introduced him and put his institute, the center of gravity, in Copenhagen, which I then mentioned was in the Netherlands. Which is not true. That is not where Copenhagen is. Copenhagen's in in Denmark.

Amsterdam is in the Netherlands. I've been to both cities. They're both very nice, but they're also different. They're not the same. And so that was just a little brain fart there.

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