The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine 77 - Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin?

“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 ideas in science and math through public service journalism. Quanta’s reporters and editors focus on developments in mathematics, theoretical physics, theoretical computer science and the basic life sciences, emphasizing timely, accurate, in-depth and well-crafted articles for its broad discerning audience. In 2023, Steven Strogatz received a National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications partly for his work on “The Joy of Why.”

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The Joy of Why

Episodios

Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin?

Live from ICM 2026: What Is Math For in the Age of AI?

Are We Thinking Correctly about AI Intelligence?

How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure?

How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding?

Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations?

What Is the Positive Grassmannian and Why Does It Show Up Everywhere?

What’s the Future of Gene Editing?

More Conversations, Complex Questions, and Bold Ideas in Season Five of ‘The Joy of Why’

Do Beautiful Birds Have an Evolutionary Advantage?

How Can Math Protect Our Data?

Why Did The Universe Begin?

How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science?

How Does Graph Theory Shape Our World?

Does Form Really Shape Function?

Will We Ever Prove String Theory?

How Did Geometry Create Modern Physics?

Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans?

Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab?

What Is the True Promise of Quantum Computing?

How Did Multicellular Life Evolve?

S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches

S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches

What Makes for ‘Good’ Math?

Trailer: The Joy of Why Season 3

How Will We Know We’re Not Alone?

How Is Cell Death Essential to Life?

What Can Birdsong Teach Us About Human Language?

How Is AI Changing the Science of Prediction?

Why Is It So Hard to Define a Species?

How Can Math Help Beat Cancer?

What Can Cave Life Tell Us About Alien Ecosystems?

From Sidedoor — Cosmic Journey I: "Stellar Buffoonery"

Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum?

Do We Need a New Theory of Gravity?

Are Robots About to Level Up?

How Does Math Keep Our Secrets?

Will AI Ever Have Common Sense?

What Can Tiling Patterns Teach Us?

How Is Science Even Possible?

Can Psychedelics Improve Mental Health?

What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression?

Will Better Superconductors Transform the World?

What Does Milk Do for Babies?

Can Information Escape a Black Hole?

How Is Flocking Like Computing?

What Is Quantum Teleportation?

What Is the Nature of Time?

How Did Altruism Evolve?

Does Nothingness Exist?