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The Joy of Why

66 episodes

Do Beautiful Birds Have an Evolutionary Advantage?

The Joy of Why

46:06Aug 21, 2025

How Can Math Protect Our Data?

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39:39Aug 7, 2025

Why Did The Universe Begin?

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52:08Jul 24, 2025

How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science?

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45:04Jul 10, 2025

How Does Graph Theory Shape Our World?

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34:13Jun 26, 2025

Does Form Really Shape Function?

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47:24Jun 12, 2025

Will We Ever Prove String Theory?

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48:39May 29, 2025

How Did Geometry Create Modern Physics?

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46:07May 15, 2025

Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans?

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41:47May 1, 2025

Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab?

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42:33Apr 17, 2025

What Is the True Promise of Quantum Computing?

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38:47Apr 3, 2025

How Did Multicellular Life Evolve?

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46:06Mar 20, 2025

S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches

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17:55Mar 13, 2025

How Will We Know We’re Not Alone?

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37:55Dec 19, 2024

How Is Cell Death Essential to Life?

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38:57Dec 5, 2024

What Can Birdsong Teach Us About Human Language?

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42:15Nov 21, 2024

How Is AI Changing the Science of Prediction?

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37:01Nov 7, 2024

Why Is It So Hard to Define a Species?

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30:19Oct 24, 2024

How Can Math Help Beat Cancer?

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42:58Oct 10, 2024

What Can Cave Life Tell Us About Alien Ecosystems?

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44:42Sep 26, 2024

From Sidedoor — Cosmic Journey I: "Stellar Buffoonery"

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34:37Sep 19, 2024

Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum?

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43:00Sep 12, 2024

Do We Need a New Theory of Gravity?

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42:25Aug 29, 2024

Are Robots About to Level Up?

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38:29Aug 15, 2024

How Does Math Keep Our Secrets?

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23:59Aug 1, 2024

Will AI Ever Have Common Sense?

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44:16Jul 18, 2024

What Can Tiling Patterns Teach Us?

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39:26Jul 3, 2024

How Is Science Even Possible?

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35:57Jun 20, 2024

Can Psychedelics Improve Mental Health?

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39:52Jun 6, 2024

What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression?

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33:23May 23, 2024

Will Better Superconductors Transform the World?

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28:58May 9, 2024

What Does Milk Do for Babies?

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34:42Apr 25, 2024

Can Information Escape a Black Hole?

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29:20Apr 11, 2024

How Is Flocking Like Computing?

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39:45Mar 28, 2024

What Is Quantum Teleportation?

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30:05Mar 14, 2024

What Is the Nature of Time?

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30:46Feb 29, 2024

How Did Altruism Evolve?

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34:22Feb 15, 2024

What Makes for ‘Good’ Math?

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35:41Feb 1, 2024

S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches

The Joy of Why

17:55Jan 25, 2024

Trailer: The Joy of Why Season 3

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2:10Jan 25, 2024

Does Nothingness Exist?

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44:59Jul 26, 2023

Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?

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46:11Jul 12, 2023

What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics?

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43:42Jun 28, 2023

What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?

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40:14Jun 14, 2023

What Is the Nature of Consciousness?

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52:14May 31, 2023

Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?

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48:48May 17, 2023

Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level?

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36:39May 4, 2023

How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others?

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46:11Apr 19, 2023

What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines?

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42:53Apr 5, 2023

Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign?

The Joy of Why

49:39Mar 22, 2023