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The Computer Scientist Who Shrinks Big Data
...everybody’s Black. It was never like, “Oh, you’re a Black kid who’s succeeding in math and science.” It was like, well, of course I’m a Black kid, everyone’s a Black...
Our Favorite Comments of the Year
...to any sufficiently specific development in pure mathematics: River Creature As a non-mathematician person, what are the practical applications of this proof? The math is interesting to see but for...
How to Make the Universe Think for Us
...image, and the “learning” needed to classify such images correctly. A system that mastered both tasks would leverage the universe’s ability to act mathematically without actually doing math. “We never...
How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?
...the biggest unanswered questions in science and math today. In this episode, we’re going to be looking at our best current understanding of the origin of life. How did life...
What Is Life?
...into some of the biggest unanswered questions in math and science today. In this episode, we’re going to be talking about what it means to be alive. What is life?...
An Immunologist Fights Covid with Tweets and a Nasal Spray
...that I met a math teacher who instilled this interest and excitement for math in me. I started taking more math classes and decided that maybe I’ll go into science...
Why Do We Get Old, and Can Aging Be Reversed?
...and this is The Joy of Why podcast from Quanta Magazine that takes you into some of the biggest unanswered questions in science and math today. In this episode, we’re...
The AI Researcher Giving Her Field Its Bitter Medicine
...would point it out and say, “No, don’t accept this.” That really helped. Did anything else get you excited about math and science? Before high school all the math that...
Teenager Solves Stubborn Riddle About Prime Number Look-Alikes
...about a certain math problem. It had roots in a broader question, one that the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss considered to be among the most important in mathematics: how to...