Sean Carroll in Preposterous Universe: Fiction shines a light on the human condition by putting people into imaginary situations and envisioning what might happen. Science fiction expands this technique by considering situations in the future, with advanced technology, or with utterly different social contexts. Seth MacFarlane’s show The Orville is good old-fashioned space opera, but it’s also a laboratory … Continue reading Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast: Seth MacFarlane on Using Science Fiction to Explore Humanity