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Steven Strogatz and Quanta Magazine
The Joy of Why
“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...
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4.9 stars from 525 ratings
Amazing companion for Quanta Magazine
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“Great host, Steven is discovering amazing topics! Enlightening!”
NonRelativist via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
03/31/24
Boredom Antidote
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“This show is a potent antidote if you’re suffering from the horrors of boredom. I don’t understand most of this, but that’s okay. The bits that I can follow are fascinating.”
Fluffster Normalpaws via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/11/24
Deeply informative and engaging
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“I love this podcast because it is incredibly informative about topics you many not see or hear much about elsewhere. This show has made me become interested in something I was barely aware of previously.”
mr foo via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/19/23
Recent Episodes
Published 04/11/24
Nothing escapes a black hole… or does it? In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking described a subtle process by which black holes can “evaporate,” with some particles evading gravitational oblivion. This phenomenon, now dubbed “Hawking radiation,” seems inherently at odds with general relativity, but it...
Published 04/11/24
Birds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. In these chaotic assemblies, order somehow emerges. Collective behaviors differ in their details from one species to another, but they largely adhere to principles of collective motion that physicists have worked out over centuries. Now, using technologies...
Published 03/28/24
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