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    The Joy of Why

    The Joy of Why

    The Joy of Why

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    Length:
    34 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the astrophysicist and author Janna Levin interview leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 34 episodes

    Title

    What Does Milk Do for Babies?

    Milk is more than just a food for babies. Breast milk has evolved to deliver thousands ...

    34 minutes
    		Apr 25, 2024

    Can Information Escape a Black Hole?

    Nothing escapes a black hole … or does it? In the 1970s, the physicist Stephen Hawking ...

    29 minutes
    		Apr 11, 2024

    How Is Flocking Like Computing?

    Birds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. Within assemblies of organisms that seem as th...

    39 minutes
    		Mar 28, 2024

    What Is Quantum Teleportation?

    Quantum teleportation isn’t just science fiction; it’s entirely real and happening in l...

    29 minutes
    		Mar 14, 2024

    What Is the Nature of Time?

    Time seems linear to us: We remember the past, experience the present and predict the f...

    30 minutes
    		Feb 29, 2024

    How Did Altruism Evolve?

    We often talk about evolution in terms of competition, as the survival of the fittest. ...

    34 minutes
    		Feb 15, 2024

    What Makes for 'Good' Math?

    We tend to think of mathematics as purely logical, but the teaching of math, its useful...

    35 minutes
    		Feb 01, 2024

    Why Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches On

    “The Joy of Why” is a Quanta Magazine podcast about curiosity and the pursuit of knowle...

    2 minutes
    		Jan 25, 2024

    Does Nothingness Exist?

    Aristotle argued almost 2,400 years ago that a perfect vacuum could never exist. Today,...

    44 minutes
    		Jul 26, 2023

    Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?

    The heart’s electrical system keeps all its muscle cells beating in sync. A hard whack ...

    46 minutes
    		Jul 12, 2023