The Joy of Why

A podcast by Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine - Thursdays

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47 Episodes

  1. How Can Math Help Beat Cancer?

    Published: 10/10/2024

  2. What Can Cave Life Tell Us About Alien Ecosystems?

    Published: 9/26/2024

  3. From Sidedoor — Cosmic Journey I: "Stellar Buffoonery"

    Published: 9/19/2024

  4. Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum?

    Published: 9/12/2024

  5. Do We Need a New Theory of Gravity?

    Published: 8/29/2024

  6. Are Robots About to Level Up?

    Published: 8/15/2024

  7. How Does Math Keep Our Secrets?

    Published: 8/1/2024

  8. Will AI Ever Have Common Sense?

    Published: 7/18/2024

  9. What Can Tiling Patterns Teach Us?

    Published: 7/3/2024

  10. How Is Science Even Possible?

    Published: 6/20/2024

  11. Can Psychedelics Improve Mental Health?

    Published: 6/6/2024

  12. What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression?

    Published: 5/23/2024

  13. Will Better Superconductors Transform the World?

    Published: 5/9/2024

  14. What Does Milk Do for Babies?

    Published: 4/25/2024

  15. Can Information Escape a Black Hole?

    Published: 4/11/2024

  16. How Is Flocking Like Computing?

    Published: 3/28/2024

  17. What Is Quantum Teleportation?

    Published: 3/14/2024

  18. What Is the Nature of Time?

    Published: 2/29/2024

  19. How Did Altruism Evolve?

    Published: 2/15/2024

  20. What Makes for ‘Good’ Math?

    Published: 2/1/2024

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“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 in science and math through public service journalism. Quanta’s reporters and editors focus on developments in mathematics, theoretical physics, theoretical computer science and the basic life sciences, emphasizing timely, accurate, in-depth and well-crafted articles for its broad discerning audience. In 2023, Steven Strogatz received a National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications partly for his work on “The Joy of Why.”