Interviews with Mathematicians about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/mathematics
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Host Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine at Stanford, is your guide to the latest science and engineering breakthroughs. Join Russ and his guests as they explore cutting-edge advances that are shaping the future of everything from AI to health and renewable energy. Along the way, “The Future of Everything” delves into ethical implications to give listeners a well-rounded understanding of how new technologies and discoveries will impact society. Whether you’re a ...
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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) welcomes you to Adding It All Up —a podcast created by and for mathematics educators and teachers. Join us each month as we explore current topics, insights, and emerging trends with thought leaders in the math community.
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History of mathematics research with iconoclastic madcap twists
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Periodic audiocasts from American Scientist, a publication of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Honor Society.
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Philosophy in the real world. Interviewing intellectuals across the globe. Grappling with the biggest ideas. stevepatterson.substack.com
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Conversations, explorations, conjectures solved and unsolved, mathematicians and beautiful mathematics. No math background required.
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Maths is often dreaded as a subject by most of the students. Here is an attempt to simplify various topics in Mathematics and help reduce Maths Phobia.
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NCSM Leadership in Mathematics Education Learning with Leaders
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NCSM's Leadership in Mathematics Education Podcasts are published as part of the educational services NCSM provides members and visitors to the NCSM website -- http://mathedleadership.org NCSM - Where Mathematics Leaders Go To Learn
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Interviews with mathematics education researchers about recent studies. Hosted by Samuel Otten, University of Missouri. www.mathedpodcast.com Produced by Fibre Studios
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'Will my bacon sandwich kill me?', 'Is vaping better than smoking?', 'How do you become an astronaut?' - just some of the Big Questions we ask some of the brightest minds behind Oxford science. Join us in each podcast as we explore a different area of science.
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Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.
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Welcome to Science Sessions, the PNAS podcast program. Listen to brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in PNAS, plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us.
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This podcast is about Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Culture, Graduate life and much more.
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Intellectually Curious is a podcast by Mike Breault featuring over 1,400 AI-powered explorations across science, mathematics, philosophy, and personal growth. Each short-form episode is generated, refined, and published with the help of large language models—turning curiosity into an ongoing audio encyclopedia. Designed for anyone who loves learning, it offers quick dives into everything from combinatorics and cryptography to systems thinking and psychology. Inspiration for this podcast: "Mu ...
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Mathematically Uncensored
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Talk that is real and complex, but never discrete.
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Podcasts from the Mathematical Institute, part of the Maths, Physical and Life Sciences Division
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NonTrivial is a podcast about the patterns that exist at the intersection of science, philosophy and complexity, and how these speak to universal principles related to skills, growth and life. The longer you listen, the more you’ll internalize these universal principles and see how they inform your work, your ideas, and the way you shape the world around you. Become a Member at nontrivialpodcast.com or patreon.com/8431143/join Premium members get access to Techniques and Mindsets videos, whe ...
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The following podcasts look at linear systems and the equation of a line
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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net
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Join mathematician Professor Hannah Fry and science creator Michael Stevens (Vsauce) as they dig into the weird scientific questions that often go unexplored. Welcome to The Rest Is Science, a show that sits in the fascinating space between what we think we know, and what we actually know. Why do we assume we understand things like time, randomness, or even gravity? Once you start questioning these familiar ideas, reality becomes astonishingly strange and completely fragile. Whether you're a ...
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The TODOS: Mathematics for ALL Podcast explores the intersection of mathematics education, social justice, and identity. Season 4 brings in new hosts, Theodore Chao and Shari Kaku, to amplify the voices of educators, activists, and community leaders who challenge traditional norms and reimagining math education as an inclusive and humanizing practice. Season 4 focuses Invisibility & Hypervisibility in Mathematics Education: An Exploration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Mathematics Id ...
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The story of technological progress is one of drama and intrigue, sudden insight and plain hard work. Let’s explore technology’s spectacular failures and many magnificent success stories. This content is in service of Houston Public Media’s education mission and is sponsored by the University of Houston. It is not a product of our news team.
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We believe that when people think historically, they are engaging in a disciplined way of thinking about the world and its past. We believe it gives thinkers a knack for recognizing nonsense; and that it cultivates not only intellectual curiosity and rigor, but also intellectual humility. Join Al Zambone, author of Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life, as he talks with historians and other professionals who cultivate the craft of historical thinking.
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Room to Grow is the math podcast that brings you discussions on trending topics in math education in short segments. We’re not here to talk at people. We’re here to think and learn with others — because when it comes to mathematics there’s always room to grow!
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This podcast features interviews with educators, leaders and even students in relation to maths education.
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Exploring strategies and tool moving towards metis-rich instruction, successfully guiding students as they struggle to achieve understanding of the complexities of mathematics.
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This is Mathematical basis for reality; a podcast to fill the void.
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Professor of Mathematics Marcus du Sautoy reveals the personalities behind the calculations and argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science.
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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black holes work? Do you wonder why you get emotional each time you see a certain movie, or how on earth video games are designed? Then you’ve come to the right place. Each week, Sean Carroll will host conversations with some of the most interesting thinkers in the world. From neuroscientists and engineers to authors and television producers, Sean and his guests talk about the biggest ideas in science, ...
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Mathematics - in a great school close to home!
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Hello!! My podcast will be about mathematics. The math that I will talk about is math 2 with the integrated mathematics textbook and work book. I will go over chapters 1-11 in this podcast.
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Why is mathematics so hard? Here, we talk about the foundations for whole numbers and fractions and suggest that math can be natural and fun to us! Cover art photo provided by naomi tamar on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@naomitamar
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Today, we will answer the life long question... "When will I ever use this math when I grow up?"
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Insights and interviews from the Mathematics Faculty, University of Cambridge. Voices of Mathematics takes you inside the University of Cambridge's Mathematics Faculty, the home of the Cambridge Mathematics departments. From number theory and geometry to cosmology and quantum physics, the Faculty's work explores fundamental and exciting questions to extend the boundaries of discovery. In conversations with researchers from both departments, we explore topics across pure and applied mathemati ...
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Lesson by lesson podcasts for teachers of Illustrative Mathematics®. (Based on IM 9-12 Math™ by Illustrative Mathematics®, available at www.illustrativemathematics.org.)
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This podcast explores mathematics, mathematical philosophy and how that relates to the real world and our lives through the history of math. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mathematically-speaking/support
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A mathematics podcast from ACMEScience featuring the best math stories from the world of maths
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Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences at the Department for Continuing Education
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How did pages of mysterious “gibberish” sent from Madras find their way to one of Cambridge University’s most respected mathematicians? Were the strange formulas the work of a deluded mind - or breakthrough insights of an unknown genius? The author of that letter was Srinivasa Ramanujan. His story inspired two Hollywood blockbusters (Goodwill Hunti…
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Reverse Mathematics: The Foundational Price of Theorems
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What if the truth of a theorem reveals the exact axioms needed to prove it? In this episode we explore reverse mathematics, a program that starts from a theorem and asks: what is the minimal axiom system required in second-order arithmetic? We'll meet RCA0 as the computable baseline, see how many theorems align with WKL0, ACA0, ATR0, or Pi11-CA0, a…
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Vector: Robyn Arianrohd on the Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation
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On October 16, 1843, William Rowan Hamilton was taking a walk with his wife Helen. He was on his way to preside over a meeting of the Royal Irish Academy. As Hamilton came to Broome Bridge, over the Royal Canal, the solution to a vexing problem finally emerged in front of him. He was so excited, and perhaps so afraid that he might forget, that he p…
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Andrew H. Jaffe, "The Random Universe: How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos" (Yale UP, 2025)
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An award-winning astrophysicist looks at how the understanding of uncertainty and randomness has led to breakthroughs in our knowledge of the cosmos All of us understand the world around us by constructing models, comparing them to observations, and drawing conclusions. Scientists create, test, and replace these models by applying the twinned conce…
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336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI
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Machine learning using neural networks has led to a remarkable leap forward in artificial intelligence, and the technological and social ramifications have been discussed at great length. To understand the origin and nature of this progress, it is useful to dig at least a little bit into the mathematical and algorithmic structures underlying these …
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Episode 2: S5E2: Enacting Antiracist Teaching Practices through Mathematical Modeling with Will Tidwell
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In this episode of the TODOS Podcast, Theodore Chao and Shari Kaku engage in a profound discussion with Dr. Will Tidwell about the intersection of mathematical modeling and social justice. Dr. Tidwell was part of the authorship team of Drs. Cynthia O. Anhalt, Ricardo Cortez, and Brynja Kohler who wrote Chapter 4, “Enacting Antiracist Teaching Pract…
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Episode115-Yvonne Daniels and Sean Nank, "Be Loud and Listen"
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Episode115-Yvonne Daniels and Sean Nank, "Be Loud and Listen"By NCSM Leadership in Mathematics Education
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What happened to the birds in 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'?
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We all know it. We've all sung it. Perhaps we've even answered a quiz question about it*. The Twelve Days of Christmas has become as quintessentially festive as a figgy pudding, or the bad joke in your Christmas cracker. But why exactly is your 'true love' gifting all these birds? And importantly, how are they faring nowadays? Prof Andy Gosler (fro…
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Untangling Knots: The Unknotting Number and a 2025 Breakthrough
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A friendly dive into knot theory and the unknotting number—the minimum number of crossing switches needed to untie a knot. We ride from simple knots like the trefoil and the figure-eight to complex families like twist and torus knots, explain why the unknotting number gives a deep glimpse into a knot's structure, and celebrate the 2025 result showi…
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Tit for Tat: How a Simple Rule Forges Cooperation
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We unpack the iterated prisoner's dilemma, why 'tit for tat'—start cooperative and copy your opponent's last move—proved stunningly effective in Axelrod’s tournaments, and how generosity (GTFT) prevents spirals from miscommunication. From World War I trenches to AI diplomacy and business, we explore how a little forgiveness can stabilize complex sy…
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The Mersenne Twister: Engine of Modern Randomness
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From the limits of early pseudorandom generators to the MT powerhouse, we unravel how Matsumoto and Nishimura engineered a long-lasting, high-quality RNG. Explore its astronomical period, 623-dimensional equidistribution, and the tempering polish that eliminates hidden patterns, plus why it’s become the backbone of Python, MATLAB, R, and Excel. We …
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2617: Facebooking
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Episode: 2617 Facebook, social networking website, or new medium? Today, Facebooking.By Roger Kaza
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Four Phases of Bumblebee Defense: The Choreography of Bombus terrestris
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We unpack how Bombus terrestris nests mount a four-phase defense—from a rapid worker-led onset with alarm buzzing and leg-raising to a prolonged 'abdominal pumping' warm-up, followed by a delayed response with pulse buzzing and grooming. The colony's defense adapts to threat type, and a hidden layer—social immunity via transgenerational immune prim…
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MTBR: The Two-Step Memory That Transformed Cooperation in AI
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We explore how memory-two bilateral reciprocity (MTBR) emerged from multi-agent Q-learning, revealing a dominant social strategy that combines forgiveness with a cycle-breaker. Learn about the dual objective—maximize your relative advantage to deter exploitation while also maximizing your own total payoff to encourage cooperation—and how these rule…
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Mars's Hidden Rivers: Hydrogen, Mega Basins, and the Quest for Ancient Life
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Join us as we connect climate and chemistry models to Mars' faint young Sun paradox, where crustal hydrogen release and episodic volcanism could have produced bursts of warmth long enough for rivers to carve vast networks. A new map identifies 16 mega basins—each over 100,000 square kilometers—that cover only about 5% of the ancient terrain but con…
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Queen Mab and the Dust Engine: A Tiny Moon That Powers Uranus’ Rings
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A humbling deep dive into MAB (formerly S2003-U1), the faint Uranian moon that evades easy measurement and even Voyager 2’s flyby. We trace its Hubble discovery in 2003, the mystery of its size, and how a chaotic, Goldilocks-sized moon acts as a self-sustaining dust factory that feeds Uranus’ ring system. This episode explores how a small world can…
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2829: Cesare Lombroso
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Episode: 2829 Cesare Lombroso and his Museum. Today, a head in a jar.By Richard H. Armstrong
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Has music really been getting worse… or is it just shifting in ways we don’t always notice? And why does the soundtrack to your teenage years feel like the single greatest playlist ever made? Hannah and Michael explore music’s strange grip on our minds. They trace why certain lyrics feel simpler than they used to, and what gives our formative songs…
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Kostensuchus atrox: Patagonia's Broad-Snout Apex Predator
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We reveal a near-complete 70-million-year-old crocodile relative from Argentina—Kostensuchus atrox —and what its broad snout, giant jaw muscles, and serrated teeth tell us about Cretaceous land predation. The episode compares its ecology with coeval predators like Chaetotrox and Baryosuchids, explores locomotor clues from its limbs, and explains wh…
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Cassiopeia A: The Ghost Supernova and the Cosmic Time Capsule
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A deep-dive into Cassiopeia A, the brightest extra-solar radio source, and a centuries-old explosion that went unnoticed in the 1600s. We explore how radio, X-ray, and light-echo observations stitched together the event, revealing an asymmetric Type I explosion and the creation of life’s building blocks—like phosphorus. It’s a cosmic detective stor…
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Genetic history of dog domestication Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), plus a broad range…
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The All-Brain Sea Urchin: A Juvenile Cell Atlas Rewrites Nervous System Design
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In this deep dive, we explore the first detailed single-nucleus atlas of Paracentrotus lividus at two weeks old. SnRNA-seq maps every active gene in every cell and reveals a surprisingly complex nervous system: 48 cell clusters, 29 neuronal families, and a full suite of signaling—dopaminergic, serotonergic, cholinergic, GABAergic—distributed across…
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338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos
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The story goes that Wolfgang Pauli, who first proposed the existence of neutrinos, was embarrassed to have done so, as it was considered uncouth to hypothesize new particles that could not be detected. Modern physicists have no such scruples, of course, but more importantly neutrinos turn out to be very detectable, given sufficient resources and ex…
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1485: Ship of Gold
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Episode: 1485 Ship of gold in the Deep Blue Sea: an impossible treasure recovery. Today, we hunt treasure.By Dr. John Lienhard
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Original article here, from 2023: Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribeBy Steve Patterson
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Join us as we dive into blue holes—giant, oxygen-starved caverns carved from carbonate bedrock. We explore their Ice Age origins, the halocline that preserves climate records and fossils, and the unique chemosynthetic life that thrives there. We’ll also look at how scientists map these underwater time capsules and why they’re powerful analogs for l…
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Stellar Populations: Reading the Galaxy’s Time Capsule
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A deep dive into how astronomers map cosmic history with the ages and metals of stars. We trace Walter Baade’s Population I, II, and III framework, explain why metallicity acts as a cosmic clock, and show how Pop I (like the Sun) are metal-rich, Pop II are older and alpha-enhanced, and Pop III are the universe’s first stars. Explore how metal conte…
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The Hadamard Edge: Why Entrywise Multiplication Powers AI
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We unpack the Hadamard (Schur) product: simple A ∘ B, equal-shaped matrices multiplied entrywise. It’s commutative and, crucially, why PSD matrices stay PSD thanks to the Schur product theorem—giving a stability guarantee for big systems. See how this tiny operation shows up in image masking, JPEG-like processing, and the gate-driven memory of LSTM…
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1484: Georg Cantor
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Episode: 1484 Georg Cantor, the man who counted beyond infinity. Today, we wonder about counting to infinity.By Dr. John Lienhard
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In this episode I discuss why strict scheduling goes against the way nature and human creativity actually function. Real progress often appears in spontaneous gaps throughout the day, much like discoveries and insights in science and art that arise unexpectedly rather than through planning. I explain that people struggle with this approach because …
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A deep dive into Mount Zao’s awe-inspiring juhyo—giant, feathery ice formations sculpted by the perfect storm of geography, biology, and brutal weather. We break down ice-snow accretion, the role of the hardy Maris fir, and how supercooled droplets and wind angle create the feathered, low-density “soft rime” that gives these giants their surreal sh…
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Chewbacca Coral: The Shaggy Giant of the Deep Sea
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Dive into the discovery of Iridogorgia chewbacca, a shimmering deep-sea bamboo coral whose thousands of active polyps cloak its stalk in a fuzzy, iridescent halo. We unpack what a monopodial spiral axis means, how this species survives at 400–1,000 meters in the western Pacific, and why archival ROV footage led scientists to formally describe it as…
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Frobenius Normal Form: The Unique Fingerprint of Matrix Similarity
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Dive into the Frobenius (Rational) Canonical Form and discover how it gives each square matrix a unique fingerprint that survives changes of basis. We’ll see why this form avoids eigenvalue factoring, using invariant factors and companion blocks to build a canonical block-diagonal picture. Compare it with diagonalization and Jordan form, and learn …
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1483: Gibbs and Visualization
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Episode: 1483 In which J. Willard Gibbs pictures gear teeth. Today, a glimpse into the mind of J. Willard Gibbs.By Dr. John Lienhard
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A tour of the darkest materials, from nanotube forests like Vantablack to nanofibril fabrics and melanin-based layers inspired by deep-sea organisms. We explore how nanoscale structures trap nearly all light, why durability and scalability matter, and how nature’s blueprints could power robust ultra-black coatings for science, industry, and everyda…
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Maria Barna is an authority on ribosomes – “life’s most ancient and spectacular molecular machines.” Ribosomes make proteins in the body. There can be a thousand different types of ribosomes in a single cell, she says, each with a specific job to do. But sometimes things go awry and ribosomes get “hijacked,” leading to disease. Barna studies these …
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Newcomb’s Paradox in the Age of AI: One Box, Two Boxes, and Free Will
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We unpack the classic predictor dilemma—two boxes, a near-perfect forecaster, and a choice that seems to predefine your fate. We compare the one-box and two-box strategies, dive into the idea of character formation, and discuss what ultra-accurate predictions mean for decision-making in an AI-enabled world. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and …
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Prompt Architecture: Mastering Strategic AI Prompting
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A practical deep-dive into turning AI prompts into repeatable, high-impact results. We unpack four input types (simple questions, tasks, entity/classification prompts, and completions), the value of few-shot examples, and the power of positive guardrails. Learn how to shape context, use explicit structure with delimiters, and tune creativity with t…
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1481: Photography: The Salad Days
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Episode: 1481 A revealing view of photography's early days. Today, where was photography headed in 1854?By Dr. John Lienhard
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The Codex Unfolded: Anatomy, History, and Craft of the Book
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A voyage from Roman wax tablets to the codex, exploring its binding, text block, endpapers, paste-downs, fly leaves, and the art of bookmaking—from accordion folds to ebru paper marbling—celebrating the craftsmanship behind the everyday book. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical i…
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Radio Armor: Detecting a Magnetic Shield on YZ Ceti b
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Scientists using the VLA detected strongly polarized, repeating radio bursts synchronized with the 2-day orbit of rocky YZ Ceti b, revealing a planetary magnetic field via star-planet interactions. This first direct hint of a magnetosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet 12 light-years away offers a powerful tool to assess atmospheric retention and …
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SBOA: The Secretary Bird’s Blueprint for Edge AI and Drone Scheduling
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A nature-inspired deep dive into the Secretary Bird Optimization Algorithm (SBOA): how a raptor’s two-stage hunt—general search with Brownian motion and precision strikes via Levy flights—translates into robust, dynamic scheduling for edge-enabled drone networks. We explore enhancements like MSESBOA+RL, golden sinusoidal guidance, and cooperative c…
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2542: Hippodamus of Miletus
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Episode: 2542 Hippodamus of Miletus and Urban Design. Today, a grid for the ages.By Dr. Andy Boyd
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The Art Gallery Problem: Why floor(n/3) Guards Are Enough
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Join us as we dissect the art gallery problem for simple polygons: triangulate the shape, color the vertices with three colors, and pick guards from the smallest color class to cover every spot. We trace the logic from the floor(n/3) bound to efficient algorithms like Jarvis's march and Chan's O(n log H), and explore trapezoidal maps and randomized…
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108 Sun Salutations: The Yoga Mala and the Art of Transformation
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Join us as we explore the yoga mala—108 Surya Namaskar sequences designed to purify, build tapas, and reset the mind. We break down the symbolism of 108, the breath-movement synchronization, and how to maintain precision with safe modifications. From the mental wall around rep 70 to the restorative savasana that closes the practice, learn practical…
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Mamenchisaurus: The 41% Neck and the Engineering of Gigantism
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We dive into the biology of Mamenchisaurus youngii, whose neck accounted for about 41% of its body length. Learn how pneumatic bones filled with air pockets lightened the mass to roughly 0.5 g/cm^3, how overlapping ossified tendons acted as tension cables to stiffen a long neck, and how an avian-style respiratory system kept the animal breathing ef…
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Plato's Letters: Ariel Helfer on the Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life
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The Greek philosopher Plato is famous for writing his teachings in the form of dialogues. But there are additionally a series of seven letters attributed to Plato. Over the centuries much ink has been spilt in arguments over their authenticity. My guest today argues that these letters are actually epistolary philosophical novel which are if nothing…
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