The Joy of x

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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 48m. Bisher sind 26 Folge(n) erschienen. Dies ist ein wöchentlich erscheinender Podcast.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 19 hours 26 minutes

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Eve Marder on the Crucial Resilience of Neurons


Eve Marder’s research into the plasticity and resilience of nervous systems finds universal principles guiding life’s responses to stress.

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 May 17, 2021  40m
 
 

Charlie Marcus Knows That Quantum Facts Aren’t Complicated


The secret to making a qubit for future quantum computers might depend on knowing how to tie knots in unusual materials, argues the physicist Charlie Marcus.

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 May 10, 2021  49m
 
 

Amie Wilkinson Sees the Dynamic Chaos in Puff Pastry


To a dynamicist like Amie Wilkinson, understanding the universe is about knowing all the right moves.

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 May 3, 2021  42m
 
 

Emery Brown and the Truth About Anesthesia


Anesthesia is very different from sleep — which is why it offers unique opportunities for studying the human brain, says the physician-researcher and statistician Emery Brown.

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 April 26, 2021  40m
 
 

Melanie Mitchell Takes AI Research Back to Its Roots


To build a general artificial intelligence, we may need to know more about our own minds, argues the computer scientist Melanie Mitchell.

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 April 19, 2021  40m
 
 

Trachette Jackson Fights Cancer With Math


Quantitative models built by the mathematical biologist Trachette Jackson can make cancer therapies safer and more effective.

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 April 12, 2021  42m
 
 

Rediet Abebe on Using Algorithms for Social Justice


The computer scientist Rediet Abebe’s passion for applied mathematics closely aligns with her passion to solve problems with poverty and social inequality.

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 April 5, 2021  43m
 
 

Federico Ardila on Math, Music and the Space of Possibilities


The mathematician Federico Ardila takes a creative approach to the search for useful answers hiding among inconceivably huge numbers of possible ones.

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 March 29, 2021  50m
 
 

Sharon Glotzer’s Deep Curiosity About Order From Chaos


The computational physicist Sharon Glotzer finds unifying principles that structure the chaotic dance of the particles that make up matter.

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 March 22, 2021  48m
 
 

Frank Wilczek on the Strong Force, Quarks and Dark Matter


The theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek explained what holds atomic nuclei together, and he is still pushing at the limits of what the standard model can tell us.

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 March 15, 2021  48m
 
 
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