
The Joy of Why
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.
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Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum?
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Do We Need a New Theory of Gravity?
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Are Robots About to Level Up?
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How Does Math Keep Secrets?
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Will AI Ever Have Common Sense?
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What Can Tiling Patterns Teach Us?
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How Is Science Even Possible?
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Can Psychedelics Improve Mental Health?
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What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression?
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Will Better Superconductors Transform the World?
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What Does Milk Do for Babies?
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Can Information Escape a Black Hole?
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How Is Flocking Like Computing?
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What Is Quantum Teleportation?
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What Is the Nature of Time?
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How Did Altruism Evolve?
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What Makes for ‘Good’ Mathematics?
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Why Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches On
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Does Nothingness Exist?
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Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?
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What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics?
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What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?
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What Is the Nature of Consciousness?
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Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?
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Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level?
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How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others?
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What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines?
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Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign?
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Can We Program Our Cells?
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How Will the Universe End?
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The Joy of Asking About Infinity, Jellyfish and the End of the Universe
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Why and How Do We Dream?
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What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete?
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Why Do We Get Old, and Can Aging Be Reversed?
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How Do Mathematicians Know Their Proofs Are Correct?
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Can Computers Be Mathematicians?
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What Is Life?
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How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?
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Will the James Webb Space Telescope Reveal Another Earth?
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Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From?
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Why Is Inflammation a Dangerous Necessity?
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Untangling Why Knots Are Important
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Why Do We Die Without Sleep?
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Deep Curiosity Inspires The Joy of Why Podcast
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