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Eve Marder on the Crucial Resilience of Neurons
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Charlie Marcus Knows That Quantum Facts Aren’t Complicated
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Amie Wilkinson Sees the Dynamic Chaos in Puff Pastry
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Emery Brown and the Truth About Anesthesia
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Melanie Mitchell Takes AI Research Back to Its Roots
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Trachette Jackson Fights Cancer With Math
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Rediet Abebe on Using Algorithms for Social Justice
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Federico Ardila on Math, Music and the Space of Possibilities
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Sharon Glotzer’s Deep Curiosity About Order From Chaos
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Frank Wilczek on the Strong Force, Quarks and Dark Matter
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Bonnie Bassler on Talkative Bacteria and Eavesdropping Viruses
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Neil Shubin on Tiktaalik, Ballistic Tongues and Evolution
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Podcast Preview: The Joy of x, Season Two
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Moon Duchin on Fair Voting and Random Walks
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Brian Keating’s Quest for the Origin of the Universe
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Rebecca Goldin and Brian Nosek on Hard Truths in Math and Psychology
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Cori Bargmann on the Genetics of Transparent Worms, Supertasters and Cancer
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Tadashi Tokieda’s Special Kind of Magic
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Janna Levin on Seeing and Hearing Black Holes
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John Urschel: From NFL Player to Mathematician
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Corina Tarnita and the Deep Mathematics of Social Insects
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Robbert Dijkgraaf on Exploring Quantum Reality
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Leslie Vosshall on Designer Mosquitoes and Dude Walls
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Alex Kontorovich on the Absolute Truth of Pure Math
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Priya Natarajan on Black Holes and Mapping the Universe
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Podcast Preview: Introducing The Joy of x
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