Do Beautiful Birds Have an Evolutionary Advantage?
The
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66 Episodes
41hr 54min
Do Beautiful Birds Have an Evolutionary Advantage?
46:06
How Can Math Protect Our Data?
39:39
Why Did The Universe Begin?
52:08
How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science?
45:04
How Does Graph Theory Shape Our World?
34:13
Does Form Really Shape Function?
47:24
Will We Ever Prove String Theory?
48:39
How Did Geometry Create Modern Physics?
46:07
Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans?
41:47
Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab?
42:33
What Is the True Promise of Quantum Computing?
38:47
How Did Multicellular Life Evolve?
46:06
S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches
17:55
How Will We Know We’re Not Alone?
37:55
How Is Cell Death Essential to Life?
38:57
What Can Birdsong Teach Us About Human Language?
42:15
How Is AI Changing the Science of Prediction?
37:01
Why Is It So Hard to Define a Species?
30:19
How Can Math Help Beat Cancer?
42:58
What Can Cave Life Tell Us About Alien Ecosystems?
44:42
From Sidedoor — Cosmic Journey I: "Stellar Buffoonery"
34:37
Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum?
43:00
Do We Need a New Theory of Gravity?
42:25
Are Robots About to Level Up?
38:29
How Does Math Keep Our Secrets?
23:59
Will AI Ever Have Common Sense?
44:16
What Can Tiling Patterns Teach Us?
39:26
How Is Science Even Possible?
35:57
Can Psychedelics Improve Mental Health?
39:52
What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression?
33:23
Will Better Superconductors Transform the World?
28:58
What Does Milk Do for Babies?
34:42
Can Information Escape a Black Hole?
29:20
How Is Flocking Like Computing?
39:45
What Is Quantum Teleportation?
30:05
What Is the Nature of Time?
30:46
How Did Altruism Evolve?
34:22
What Makes for ‘Good’ Math?
35:41
S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches
17:55
Trailer: The Joy of Why Season 3
02:10
Does Nothingness Exist?
44:59
Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?
46:11
What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics?
43:42
What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?
40:14
What Is the Nature of Consciousness?
52:14
Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?
48:48
Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level?
36:39
How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others?
46:11
What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines?
42:53
Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign?
49:39
Can We Program Our Cells?
45:10
How Will the Universe End?
43:53
The Joy of Asking About Infinity, Jellyfish and the End of the Universe
02:31
Why and How Do We Dream?
45:23
What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete?
42:03
Why Do We Get Old, and Can Aging Be Reversed?
38:25
How Do Mathematicians Know Their Proofs Are Correct?
28:25
Can Computers Be Mathematicians?
32:50
What Is Life?
41:58
How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?
39:22
Will the James Webb Space Telescope Reveal Another Earth?
49:43
Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From?
42:03
Why Is Inflammation a Dangerous Necessity?
40:13
Untangling Why Knots Are Important
44:15
Why Do We Die Without Sleep?
43:47
Trailer: The Joy of Why
02:42