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The Joy of Why

The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz interviews leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time.
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Does Nothingness Exist?

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Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?

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What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics?

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What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?

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A representation of a human head examining its experiences.
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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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golden planets look like they're moving through a twisting current
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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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The face of a sleeping person surrounded by images of the person running and flying in dreams, with other images of scientists monitoring the process.
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Why and How Do We Dream?

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Representations of fields becoming neutrons, doughnuts, pretzels, soccer balls and other objects.
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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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Computers doing mathematics.
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Can Computers Be Mathematicians?

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an illustration of various objects (a chair, a rocket, a cell phone, etc.) as well as biological objects such as a DNA double-helix and microbe, all against a lime green background
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What Is Life?

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Illustration of icons that relate to life’s origins: a volcano, molecules, a crab, fish, DNA and more.
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How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?

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Illustration of a woman astronomer looking at a map that shows the James Webb Space Telescope capturing images of a distant planet.
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Will the James Webb Space Telescope Reveal Another Earth?

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Illustration of planets and other objects floating above the deformable sheet of space-time.
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Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From?

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Artist’s illustration representing the immune system standing guard against a world of pathogens.
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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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Deep Curiosity Inspires The Joy of Why Podcast

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