About this podcast
“The Joy of Why” is a Quanta Magazine podcast about curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge. The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the cosmologist and author Janna Levin take turns interviewing leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time. New episodes are released every other Wednesday. Quanta Magazine is a Pulitzer Prize–winning, editorially independent online publication launched and supported by the Simons Foundation to illuminate big…
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The Joy of Why
About this podcast
“The Joy of Why” is a Quanta Magazine podcast about curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge. The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the cosmologist and author Janna Levin take turns interviewing leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time. New episodes are released every other Wednesday. Quanta Magazine is a Pulitzer Prize–winning, editorially independent online publication launched and supported by the Simons Foundation to illuminate big…
Recent episodes
- Are We Thinking Correctly about AI Intelligence?20 Aug · 52 min
- How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure?6 Aug · 55 min
- How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding?23 Jul · 1 h 05 min
- Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations?9 Jul · 54 min
- What Is the Positive Grassmannian and Why Does It Show Up Everywhere?25 Jun · 52 min
- What’s the Future of Gene Editing?11 Jun · 51 min
- More Conversations, Complex Questions, and Bold Ideas in Season Five of ‘The Joy of Why’4 Jun · 1 min
- Do Beautiful Birds Have an Evolutionary Advantage?21 Aug 2025 · 46 min
- How Can Math Protect Our Data?7 Aug 2025 · 40 min
- Why Did The Universe Begin?24 Jul 2025 · 52 min
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