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Quanta Magazine Season 2015

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Quanta Magazine

Explore mind-bending developments in basic science and math research. Quanta Magazine is an award-winning, editorially independent magazine published by the Simons Foundation.

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Explore mind-bending developments in basic science and math research. Quanta Magazine is an award-winning, editorially independent magazine published by the Simons Foundation.

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Quanta Magazine Season 2015 Full Episode Guide

Episode 18 - Nima Arkani-Hamed's Visions of Future Physics
Episode 17 - Nancy Moran: An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships
Episode 16 - James Bullock: The Case for Complex Dark Matter
Episode 15 - How Symmetry Shapes Nature’s Laws
Episode 14 - Why Do Flies Walk This Way?
First Aired: July. 22,2015

In a device in Benjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University, a fly wanders through a tiny Y-shaped maze, choosing at the Y’s vertex whether to walk left or right. This array of Y-mazes allows researchers to track individual behavior in many flies simultaneously.

Episode 13 - Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies
First Aired: July. 21,2015

Benjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University developed a device called the fly-vac to study individual behavior. Upon entering a chamber, the fly must choose to walk toward the light or dark end. A vacuum then sucks it back to the starting point, and it makes the choice again.

Episode 11 - Hiranya Peiris: How to Test If We Live in a Multiverse
Episode 10 - Alan Guth: How Many Two-Headed Cows in a Multiverse?
First Aired: July. 02,2015

In an infinitely branching multiverse, says MIT cosmologist Alan Guth, “there are an infinite number of one-headed cows and an infinite number of two-headed cows. What happens to the ratio?”

Episode 9 - Subhash Khot: A Grand Vision for the Impossible
Episode 8 - Maryam Mirzakhani: A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces
Episode 7 - Martin Hairer: In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
Episode 6 - Yitang Zhang: An Unlikely Math Star Rises
First Aired: June. 17,2015

The opening scene from George Csicsery’s film "Counting From Infinity," about Yitang Zhang, a previously unknown mathematician who two years ago solved a major problem in number theory that catapulted him to mathematical stardom.

Episode 4 - Manjul Bhargava: The Musical, Magical Number Theorist
First Aired: June. 15,2015

A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Manjul Bhargava, whose search for artistic truth and beauty has led to some of the most profound recent discoveries in number theory.

Episode 3 - Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos
Episode 2 - Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
First Aired: June. 11,2015

A wide-ranging interview with the legendary mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson in which he discusses his work with Richard Feynman, his attempts to build a spaceship propelled by nuclear bombs and his controversial views on climate change.

Episode 1 - What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole?

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