The Joy of Why: transcripts

How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? 2026-10-29 · 60m

How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy? 2026-10-15 · 57m

What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like? 2026-10-01 · 53m

Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin? 2026-09-17 · 47m

Live from ICM 2026: What Is Math For in the Age of AI? 2026-09-03 · 53m

Are We Thinking Correctly about AI Intelligence? 2026-08-20 · 52m

How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure? 2026-08-06 · 55m

How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding? 2026-07-23 · 65m

Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations? 2026-07-09 · 54m

What Is the Positive Grassmannian and Why Does It Show Up Everywhere? 2026-06-25 · 52m

What’s the Future of Gene Editing? 2026-06-11 · 51m

More Conversations, Complex Questions, and Bold Ideas in Season Five of ‘The Joy of Why’ 2026-06-04 · 1m

Do Beautiful Birds Have an Evolutionary Advantage? 2025-08-21 · 46m

How Can Math Protect Our Data? 2025-08-07 · 40m

Why Did The Universe Begin? 2025-07-24 · 52m

How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science? 2025-07-10 · 45m

How Does Graph Theory Shape Our World? 2025-06-26 · 34m

Does Form Really Shape Function? 2025-06-12 · 47m

Will We Ever Prove String Theory? 2025-05-29 · 49m

How Did Geometry Create Modern Physics? 2025-05-15 · 46m

Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans? 2025-05-01 · 42m

Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab? 2025-04-17 · 43m

What Is the True Promise of Quantum Computing? 2025-04-03 · 39m

How Did Multicellular Life Evolve? 2025-03-20 · 46m

S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches 2025-03-13 · 18m

How Will We Know We’re Not Alone? 2024-12-19 · 38m

How Is Cell Death Essential to Life? 2024-12-05 · 39m

What Can Birdsong Teach Us About Human Language? 2024-11-21 · 42m

How Is AI Changing the Science of Prediction? 2024-11-07 · 37m

Why Is It So Hard to Define a Species? 2024-10-24 · 30m

How Can Math Help Beat Cancer? 2024-10-10 · 43m

What Can Cave Life Tell Us About Alien Ecosystems? 2024-09-26 · 45m

From Sidedoor — Cosmic Journey I: "Stellar Buffoonery" 2024-09-19 · 35m

Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum? 2024-09-12 · 43m

Do We Need a New Theory of Gravity? 2024-08-29 · 42m

Are Robots About to Level Up? 2024-08-15 · 38m

How Does Math Keep Secrets? 2024-08-01 · 37m

How Does Math Keep Our Secrets? 2024-08-01 · 24m

Will AI Ever Have Common Sense? 2024-07-18 · 44m

How Is Tiling Without Repetition Possible? 2024-07-03 · 39m

What Can Tiling Patterns Teach Us? 2024-07-03 · 39m

How Is Science Even Possible? 2024-06-20 · 36m

Can Psychedelics Improve Mental Health? 2024-06-06 · 13m

Can Psychedelics Improve Mental Health? 2024-06-06 · 40m

What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? 2024-05-23 · 33m

Will Better Superconductors Transform the World? 2024-05-09 · 29m

What Does Milk Do for Babies? 2024-04-25 · 35m

Can Information Escape a Black Hole? 2024-04-11 · 29m

How Is Flocking Like Computing? 2024-03-28 · 40m

What Is Quantum Teleportation? 2024-03-14 · 30m

What Is the Nature of Time? 2024-02-29 · 31m

How Did Altruism Evolve? 2024-02-15 · 34m

What Makes for 'Good' Math? 2024-02-01 · 36m

What Makes for ‘Good’ Math? 2024-02-01 · 36m

S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches 2024-01-25 · 18m

Why Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches On 2024-01-25 · 2m

Trailer: The Joy of Why Season 3 2024-01-25 · 2m

Does Nothingness Exist? 2023-07-26 · 45m

Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart? 2023-07-12 · 46m

What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics? 2023-06-28 · 44m

What Causes Giant Rogue Waves? 2023-06-14 · 40m

What Is the Nature of Consciousness? 2023-05-31 · 52m

Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse? 2023-05-17 · 49m

Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level? 2023-05-04 · 37m

How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others? 2023-04-19 · 46m

What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines? 2023-04-05 · 43m

Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign? 2023-03-22 · 50m

Can We Program Our Cells? 2023-03-08 · 45m

How Will the Universe End? 2023-02-22 · 44m

The Joy of Asking About Infinity, Jellyfish and the End of the Universe 2023-02-09 · 3m

Why and How Do We Dream? 2022-08-24 · 45m

What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete? 2022-08-10 · 42m

Why Do We Get Old, and Can Aging Be Reversed? 2022-07-27 · 38m

How Do Mathematicians Know Their Proofs Are Correct? 2022-07-13 · 28m

Can Computers Be Mathematicians? 2022-06-29 · 33m

What Is Life? 2022-06-15 · 42m

How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide? 2022-06-01 · 39m

Will the James Webb Space Telescope Reveal Another Earth? 2022-05-18 · 50m

Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From? 2022-05-04 · 42m

Why Is Inflammation a Dangerous Necessity? 2022-04-20 · 40m

Untangling Why Knots Are Important 2022-04-06 · 44m

Why Do We Die Without Sleep? 2022-03-23 · 44m

Trailer: The Joy of Why 2022-03-17 · 3m

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