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    Length:
    26 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    The acclaimed mathematician and author Steven Strogatz interviews some of the world's leading scientists about their lives and work.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 26 episodes

    Title

    Eve Marder on the Crucial Resilience of Neurons

    Eve Marder’s research into the plasticity and resilience of nervous systems finds unive...

    40 minutes
    		May 17, 2021

    Charlie Marcus Knows That Quantum Facts Aren’t Complicated

    The secret to making a qubit for future quantum computers might depend on knowing how t...

    49 minutes
    		May 10, 2021

    Amie Wilkinson Sees the Dynamic Chaos in Puff Pastry

    To a dynamicist like Amie Wilkinson, understanding the universe is about knowing all th...

    42 minutes
    		May 03, 2021

    Emery Brown and the Truth About Anesthesia

    Anesthesia is very different from sleep — which is why it offers unique opportunities f...

    40 minutes
    		Apr 26, 2021

    Melanie Mitchell Takes AI Research Back to Its Roots

    To build a general artificial intelligence, we may need to know more about our own mind...

    40 minutes
    		Apr 19, 2021

    Trachette Jackson Fights Cancer With Math

    Quantitative models built by the mathematical biologist Trachette Jackson can make canc...

    42 minutes
    		Apr 12, 2021

    Rediet Abebe on Using Algorithms for Social Justice

    The computer scientist Rediet Abebe’s passion for applied mathematics closely aligns wi...

    43 minutes
    		Apr 05, 2021

    Federico Ardila on Math, Music and the Space of Possibilities

    The mathematician Federico Ardila takes a creative approach to the search for useful an...

    50 minutes
    		Mar 29, 2021

    Sharon Glotzer’s Deep Curiosity About Order From Chaos

    The computational physicist Sharon Glotzer finds unifying principles that structure the...

    48 minutes
    		Mar 22, 2021

    Frank Wilczek on the Strong Force, Quarks and Dark Matter

    The theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek explained what holds atomic nuclei together, an...

    48 minutes
    		Mar 15, 2021