Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and IdeasRebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It MattersHow 'matter' came from 'mother'
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Goldstein tells a surprising etymology: Latin translators mapped Aristotle’s formless 'matter' onto motherhood, baking ancient misogyny into the very word. Sean reacts with laughter as she lands the punchline that our word for the universe’s stuff encodes 'men matter more than women.'