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Episode 20 : Corina Tarnita: First Understand Nature’s Rules
December. 20,2017
Corina Tarnita argues that to fully appreciate nature, you must first understand its rules.
Episode 19 : Minhyong Kim: Connecting Number Theory to Physics
December. 01,2017
Minhyong Kim wanted to make sure he had concrete results in number theory before he admitted that his ideas were inspired by physics.
Episode 18 : Federico Ardila: A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery
November. 20,2017
A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery
Episode 17 : Michael Assis: Atomic Origami
October. 31,2017
Michael Assis demonstrates how defects can be used to tune the properties of Miura-ori origami.
Episode 16 : Rebecca Goldin: Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World
September. 11,2017
Rebecca Goldin explains why quantitative literacy is so important.
Episode 15 : Nigel Goldenfeld: Seeing Emergent Physics Behind Evolution
August. 31,2017
Nigel Goldenfeld explains how condensed matter physics provides insights into the collective state of early life on Earth.
Episode 14 : Neil Johnson: A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right
August. 23,2017
Neil Johnson on the physics of collective human behavior.
Episode 13 : Svitlana Mayboroda: Taming Rogue Waves
August. 22,2017
Svitlana Mayboroda describes how the landscape function helps solve the mystery of wave localization.
Episode 12 : How Andrea Ghez Found a Supermassive Black Hole
August. 21,2017
The UCLA astrophysicist explains how tracking the movement of stars revealed the existence of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
Episode 11 : Jay Pasachoff: Eclipse Hunter Reveals the Science That Can Only Be Done in the Dark
August. 10,2017
Jay Pasachoff explains what scientists can learn during a total solar eclipse.
Episode 10 : Jessica Flack: How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation
July. 10,2017
Jessica Flack describes the special challenges of applying collective computation to the understanding of complex biological systems.
Episode 9 : Purvesh Khatri: More Data — the Dirtier the Better
June. 07,2017
Khatri learned that by working with 'messy' clinical data sets, he could find genes that the human body expresses in response to diverse forms of a disease.
Episode 8 : Journey to the Birth of the Solar System 360 VR
May. 25,2017
Join David Kaplan on a virtual-reality tour showing how the sun, the Earth and the other planets came to be.
Episode 7 : Tim Maudlin: A Defense of the Reality of Time
May. 19,2017
A Defense of the Reality of Time
Episode 6 : John Novembre: A Map of Human History, Hidden in DNA
April. 20,2017
John Novembre explains how he uses genomic data to map human history.
Episode 5 : Sharon Glotzer: ‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence
March. 08,2017
Sharon Glotzer explains how emergence, entropy and order can all fit together.
Episode 4 : Sylvia Serfaty: In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’
February. 21,2017
Sylvia Serfaty explains why you don’t have to be a genius to become a mathematician.
Episode 3 : Francis Su: Math Is for Everybody
February. 04,2017
Francis Su discusses how the community of mathematicians tends to exclude certain people.
Episode 2 : Francis Su: Math and the Good Life
February. 03,2017
Francis Su explains how mathematics can help a person to live well.
Episode 1 : Marcus Feldman: In Search of Actions That Alter Evolution
January. 05,2017
Marcus Feldman explains how he models the effects of a cultural preference — in this case, a preference for sons over daughters in China.
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