The Joy of Why

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

Thursdays

47 Episodes

  1. Why Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches On

    Published: 1/25/2024
  2. Does Nothingness Exist?

    Published: 7/26/2023
  3. Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?

    Published: 7/12/2023
  4. What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics?

    Published: 6/28/2023
  5. What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?

    Published: 6/14/2023
  6. What Is the Nature of Consciousness?

    Published: 5/31/2023
  7. Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?

    Published: 5/17/2023
  8. Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level?

    Published: 5/4/2023
  9. How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others?

    Published: 4/19/2023
  10. What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines?

    Published: 4/5/2023
  11. Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign?

    Published: 3/22/2023
  12. Can We Program Our Cells?

    Published: 3/8/2023
  13. How Will the Universe End?

    Published: 2/22/2023
  14. The Joy of Asking About Infinity, Jellyfish and the End of the Universe

    Published: 2/9/2023
  15. Why and How Do We Dream?

    Published: 8/24/2022
  16. What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete?

    Published: 8/10/2022
  17. Why Do We Get Old, and Can Aging Be Reversed?

    Published: 7/27/2022
  18. How Do Mathematicians Know Their Proofs Are Correct?

    Published: 7/13/2022
  19. Can Computers Be Mathematicians?

    Published: 6/29/2022
  20. What Is Life?

    Published: 6/15/2022

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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.”