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Sharon Glotzer explains how emergence, entropy and order can all fit together.
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Francis Su explains how mathematics can help a person to live well.
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Francis Su discusses how the community of mathematicians tends to exclude certain people.
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Marcus Feldman explains how he models the effects of a cultural preference — in this case, a preference for sons over daughters in China.
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Elena Aprile explains how she hunts for dark matter in the world’s largest underground laboratory.
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Janet Conrad explains how sterile neutrinos might help physicists move past the Standard Model.