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Quanta Magazine Season 2017

January. 05,2017

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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 2017 Full Episode Guide

Episode 20 - Corina Tarnita: First Understand Nature’s Rules

First Aired: December. 20,2017

Corina Tarnita argues that to fully appreciate nature, you must first understand its rules.

Episode 19 - Minhyong Kim: Connecting Number Theory to Physics

First Aired: December. 01,2017

Minhyong Kim wanted to make sure he had concrete results in number theory before he admitted that his ideas were inspired by physics.

Episode 18 - Federico Ardila: A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery

First Aired: November. 20,2017

A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery

Episode 17 - Michael Assis: Atomic Origami

First Aired: October. 31,2017

Michael Assis demonstrates how defects can be used to tune the properties of Miura-ori origami.

Episode 16 - Rebecca Goldin: Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World

First Aired: September. 11,2017

Rebecca Goldin explains why quantitative literacy is so important.

Episode 15 - Nigel Goldenfeld: Seeing Emergent Physics Behind Evolution

First Aired: August. 31,2017

Nigel Goldenfeld explains how condensed matter physics provides insights into the collective state of early life on Earth.

Episode 14 - Neil Johnson: A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right

First Aired: August. 23,2017

Neil Johnson on the physics of collective human behavior.

Episode 13 - Svitlana Mayboroda: Taming Rogue Waves

First Aired: August. 22,2017

Svitlana Mayboroda describes how the landscape function helps solve the mystery of wave localization.

Episode 12 - How Andrea Ghez Found a Supermassive Black Hole

First Aired: August. 21,2017

The UCLA astrophysicist explains how tracking the movement of stars revealed the existence of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Episode 11 - Jay Pasachoff: Eclipse Hunter Reveals the Science That Can Only Be Done in the Dark

First Aired: August. 10,2017

Jay Pasachoff explains what scientists can learn during a total solar eclipse.

Episode 10 - Jessica Flack: How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation

First Aired: July. 10,2017

Jessica Flack describes the special challenges of applying collective computation to the understanding of complex biological systems.

Episode 9 - Purvesh Khatri: More Data — the Dirtier the Better

First Aired: June. 07,2017

Khatri learned that by working with 'messy' clinical data sets, he could find genes that the human body expresses in response to diverse forms of a disease.

Episode 8 - Journey to the Birth of the Solar System 360 VR

First Aired: May. 25,2017

Join David Kaplan on a virtual-reality tour showing how the sun, the Earth and the other planets came to be.

Episode 7 - Tim Maudlin: A Defense of the Reality of Time

First Aired: May. 19,2017

A Defense of the Reality of Time

Episode 6 - John Novembre: A Map of Human History, Hidden in DNA

First Aired: April. 20,2017

John Novembre explains how he uses genomic data to map human history.

Episode 5 - Sharon Glotzer: ‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence

First Aired: March. 08,2017

Sharon Glotzer explains how emergence, entropy and order can all fit together.

Episode 4 - Sylvia Serfaty: In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’

First Aired: February. 21,2017

Sylvia Serfaty explains why you don’t have to be a genius to become a mathematician.

Episode 3 - Francis Su: Math Is for Everybody

First Aired: February. 04,2017

Francis Su discusses how the community of mathematicians tends to exclude certain people.

Episode 2 - Francis Su: Math and the Good Life

First Aired: February. 03,2017

Francis Su explains how mathematics can help a person to live well.

Episode 1 - Marcus Feldman: In Search of Actions That Alter Evolution

First Aired: January. 05,2017

Marcus Feldman explains how he models the effects of a cultural preference — in this case, a preference for sons over daughters in China.

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