AMA | June 2026 – Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

Welcome to the June 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good -- and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

Blog post with AMA questions and transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/06/01/ama-june-2026/

New paper I talk about in the beginning of the episode:

S.M. Carroll, N. Diachenko, and S. Dulani, "Toward a Phenomenologically Acceptable Quantum Cyclic Universe."

Poddgruvan

AMA | June 2026

360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass

359 | Solo: Theories of Dark Energy

358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant

357 | Jeff Coller on mRNA, Vaccines, and Bespoke Therapeutics

356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity

355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball

354 | Christian List on Free Will and Levels of Reality

353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested Markets

AMA | May 2026

352 | Bing Brunton on Connecting the Connectome to the Body