Episode 1
Marcus Feldman: In Search of Actions That Alter Evolution
2017-01-05
Marcus Feldman explains how he models the effects of a cultural preference — in this case, a preference for sons over daughters in China.
TV season
2017-01-05
Episode 1
2017-01-05
Marcus Feldman explains how he models the effects of a cultural preference — in this case, a preference for sons over daughters in China.
Episode 2
2017-02-03
Francis Su explains how mathematics can help a person to live well.
Episode 3
2017-02-04
Francis Su discusses how the community of mathematicians tends to exclude certain people.
Episode 4
2017-02-21
Sylvia Serfaty explains why you don’t have to be a genius to become a mathematician.
Episode 5
2017-03-08
Sharon Glotzer explains how emergence, entropy and order can all fit together.
Episode 6
2017-04-20
John Novembre explains how he uses genomic data to map human history.
Episode 7
2017-05-19
A Defense of the Reality of Time
Episode 8
2017-05-25
Join David Kaplan on a virtual-reality tour showing how the sun, the Earth and the other planets came to be.
Episode 9
2017-06-07
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 10
2017-07-10
Jessica Flack describes the special challenges of applying collective computation to the understanding of complex biological systems.
Episode 11
2017-08-10
Jay Pasachoff explains what scientists can learn during a total solar eclipse.
Episode 12
2017-08-21
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 13
2017-08-22
Svitlana Mayboroda describes how the landscape function helps solve the mystery of wave localization.
Episode 14
2017-08-23
Neil Johnson on the physics of collective human behavior.
Episode 15
2017-08-31
Nigel Goldenfeld explains how condensed matter physics provides insights into the collective state of early life on Earth.
Episode 16
2017-09-11
Rebecca Goldin explains why quantitative literacy is so important.
Episode 17
2017-10-31
Michael Assis demonstrates how defects can be used to tune the properties of Miura-ori origami.
Episode 18
2017-11-20
A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery
Episode 19
2017-12-01
Minhyong Kim wanted to make sure he had concrete results in number theory before he admitted that his ideas were inspired by physics.
Episode 20
2017-12-20
Corina Tarnita argues that to fully appreciate nature, you must first understand its rules.