The Joy of Why
Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine
“The Joy of Why” is a Quanta Magazine podcast about curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge. The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the cosmologist and author Janna Levin take turns interviewing leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time. New episodes are released every other Wednesday.Quanta Magazine is a Pulitzer Prize–winning, editorially independent online publication launched and supported by the Simons Foundation to illuminate big ideas i...
Episodes (74)
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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Trailer: The Joy of Why
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