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Quanta Magazine Season 2016

January. 29,2016

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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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Quanta Magazine Season 2016 Full Episode Guide

Episode 27 - Elena Aprile: In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter

First Aired: December. 20,2016

Elena Aprile explains how she hunts for dark matter in the world’s largest underground laboratory.

Episode 26 - Janet Conrad: On a Hunt for a Ghost of a Particle

First Aired: December. 08,2016

Janet Conrad explains how sterile neutrinos might help physicists move past the Standard Model.

Episode 25 - Erik Verlinde: The Case Against Dark Matter

First Aired: November. 29,2016

Erik Verlinde describes how emergent gravity and dark energy can explain away dark matter.

Episode 24 - Cynthia Dwork: How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair

First Aired: November. 23,2016

Cynthia Dwork explains how to conduct a survey that asks people if they do embarrassing — or even illicit — things.

Episode 23 - Richard Lenski: A Conductor of Evolution’s Subtle Symphony

First Aired: November. 03,2016

Richard Lenski discusses how he has been surprised by evolution.

Episode 22 - Michael Costanzo: Giant Genetic Map Reveals Life’s Hidden Links

First Aired: October. 26,2016

Michael Costanzo, a biologist at the University of Toronto and a lead author on the new study, explains why it’s important to understand how genes interact.

Episode 21 - Helen Quinn: A Wormhole Between Physics and Education

First Aired: October. 18,2016

A Wormhole Between Physics and Education

Episode 20 - Pencils Down: Channa Comer Teaching About Scientific Controls

First Aired: October. 11,2016

What's a control? Channa Comer challenges her students to explain and work things out for themselves.

Episode 19 - Pencils Down: Aaron Mathieu of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School

First Aired: October. 11,2016

Students need a chance to fail at science to learn about its process, says Aaron Mathieu.

Episode 18 - Pencils Down: Soni Midha of East Side Community High School

First Aired: October. 11,2016

In school or in life, Soni Midha wants her math students to be able to prove why something is correct.

Episode 17 - Pencils Down: Mike Zitolo of School of the Future

First Aired: October. 11,2016

Michael Zitolo is turning the way science is approached in the classroom upside down.

Episode 16 - Pencils Down: Channa Comer of Baychester Middle School

First Aired: October. 11,2016

Channa Comer teaches 6th-grade science. She focuses on engagement so kids will want to keep learning.

Episode 15 - Pencils Down: The Art of Teaching Math and Science

First Aired: October. 11,2016

What can we learn from the best teachers on the front lines? To shine a spotlight on this linchpin of our education system, Quanta Magazine followed four master science and math teachers into their classrooms.

Episode 14 - Peter and Rosemary Grant

First Aired: September. 22,2016

Peter and Rosemary Grant explain how our understanding of evolution has changed in their lifetimes.

Episode 13 - Tracy Slatyer: A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light

First Aired: September. 01,2016

Tracy Slatyer explains why she’s not disappointed when a mysterious cosmic signal turns out to be something other than dark matter.

Episode 12 - Miranda Cheng: A Moonshine Master Toys with String Theory

First Aired: August. 04,2016

Miranda Cheng explains what umbral moonshine is and how it might illuminate string theory.

Episode 11 - How Does Life Come From Randomness?

First Aired: June. 30,2016

David Kaplan explains how the law of increasing entropy could drive random bits of matter into the stable, orderly structures of life.

Episode 10 - Suchitra Sebastian: An Explorer of Quantum Borderlands

First Aired: June. 10,2016

Suchitra Sebastian talks about how extreme conditions can create unexpected quantum behavior.

Episode 9 - Ken Ono: A Life Inspired by an Unexpected Genius

First Aired: May. 23,2016

Ken Ono explains how Ramanujan has served as his “guardian angel” throughout his life and career.

Episode 8 - Janna Levin on Science and Culture

First Aired: May. 06,2016

Janna Levin talks about her roles as scientific director at a “center for art and innovation” in Brooklyn and as a physicist and writer.

Episode 7 - David Moore: Tabletop Physics

First Aired: May. 05,2016

Stanford University physicist David Moore explains how his team’s tabletop experiment uses lasers and tiny glass spheres to test gravity.

Episode 6 - Tiny Tests Seek the Universe's Big Mysteries

First Aired: May. 04,2016

David Moore explains why we might expect to find strange things when we study gravity at small scales.

Episode 5 - Is That 'Bump' a New Particle?

First Aired: April. 14,2016

David Kaplan explains how a curious signal in the Large Hadron Collider's latest data could upset the Standard Model of physics — or mean nothing at all.

Episode 4 - David Deamer: How We’re Studying the Origins of Life

First Aired: March. 17,2016

David Deamer explains how his laboratory mimics the extreme conditions found on volcanoes in the early Earth.

Episode 3 - Michael Atiyah's Imaginative State of Mind

First Aired: March. 04,2016

Michael Atiyah discusses beauty in mathematics.

Episode 2 - Are We Alone in the Universe?

First Aired: February. 04,2016

David Kaplan explores the best ways to search for alien life on distant planets.

Episode 1 - Leslie Valiant: Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life

First Aired: January. 29,2016

Leslie Valiant explains the term "ecorithm."

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