Air date: 2017-01-05

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

Air date: 2017-02-03

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

Air date: 2017-02-04

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

Air date: 2017-02-21

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

Air date: 2017-03-08

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

Air date: 2017-04-20

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

Air date: 2017-05-19

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A Defense of the Reality of Time

Air date: 2017-05-25

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

Air date: 2017-06-07

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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.

Air date: 2017-07-10

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

Air date: 2017-08-10

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

Air date: 2017-08-21

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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.

Air date: 2017-08-22

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

Air date: 2017-08-23

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Neil Johnson on the physics of collective human behavior.

Air date: 2017-08-31

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

Air date: 2017-09-11

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Rebecca Goldin explains why quantitative literacy is so important.

Air date: 2017-10-31

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

Air date: 2017-11-20

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A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery

Air date: 2017-12-01

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

Air date: 2017-12-20

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