The Joy of Why
By Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine
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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.”
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Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab?
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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What Is the True Promise of Quantum Computing?
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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How Did Multicellular Life Evolve?
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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How Will We Know We’re Not Alone?
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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How Is Cell Death Essential to Life?
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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What Can Birdsong Teach Us About Human Language?
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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How Is AI Changing the Science of Prediction?
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Why Is It So Hard to Define a Species?
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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How Can Math Help Beat Cancer?
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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What Can Cave Life Tell Us About Alien Ecosystems?
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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From Sidedoor — Cosmic Journey I: "Stellar Buffoonery"
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum?
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Do We Need a New Theory of Gravity?
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Are Robots About to Level Up?
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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How Does Math Keep Our Secrets?
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Will AI Ever Have Common Sense?
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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What Can Tiling Patterns Teach Us?
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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How Is Science Even Possible?
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Can Psychedelics Improve Mental Health?
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression?
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May 23, 2024 |
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Will Better Superconductors Transform the World?
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May 09, 2024 |
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What Does Milk Do for Babies?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Can Information Escape a Black Hole?
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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How Is Flocking Like Computing?
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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What Is Quantum Teleportation?
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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What Is the Nature of Time?
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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How Did Altruism Evolve?
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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What Makes for ‘Good’ Math?
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Trailer: The Joy of Why Season 3
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Does Nothingness Exist?
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics?
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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What Is the Nature of Consciousness?
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May 31, 2023 |
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Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?
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May 17, 2023 |
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Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level?
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May 04, 2023 |
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How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others?
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines?
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign?
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Can We Program Our Cells?
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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How Will the Universe End?
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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The Joy of Asking About Infinity, Jellyfish and the End of the Universe
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Why and How Do We Dream?
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete?
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Why Do We Get Old, and Can Aging Be Reversed?
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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How Do Mathematicians Know Their Proofs Are Correct?
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Can Computers Be Mathematicians?
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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What Is Life?
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Will the James Webb Space Telescope Reveal Another Earth?
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May 18, 2022 |
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Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From?
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May 04, 2022 |
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Why Is Inflammation a Dangerous Necessity?
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Untangling Why Knots Are Important
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Why Do We Die Without Sleep?
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Trailer: The Joy of Why
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Mar 17, 2022 |