Quanta Magazine Season 2017, Episode 11: Jay Pasachoff: Eclipse Hunter Reveals the Science That Can Only Be Done in the Dark

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Marcus Feldman: In Search of Actions That Alter Evolution

Marcus Feldman explains how he models the effects of a cultural preference — in this case, a preference for sons over daughters in China.

2

Francis Su: Math and the Good Life

Francis Su explains how mathematics can help a person to live well.

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Francis Su: Math Is for Everybody

Francis Su discusses how the community of mathematicians tends to exclude certain people.

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Sylvia Serfaty: In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’

Sylvia Serfaty explains why you don’t have to be a genius to become a mathematician.

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Sharon Glotzer: ‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence

Sharon Glotzer explains how emergence, entropy and order can all fit together.

6

John Novembre: A Map of Human History, Hidden in DNA

John Novembre explains how he uses genomic data to map human history.

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Tim Maudlin: A Defense of the Reality of Time

A Defense of the Reality of Time

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Journey to the Birth of the Solar System 360 VR

Join David Kaplan on a virtual-reality tour showing how the sun, the Earth and the other planets came to be.

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Purvesh Khatri: More Data — the Dirtier the Better

Khatri learned that by working with 'messy' clinical data sets, he could find genes that the human body expresses in response to diverse forms of a disease.

10

Jessica Flack: How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation

Jessica Flack describes the special challenges of applying collective computation to the understanding of complex biological systems.

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Jay Pasachoff: Eclipse Hunter Reveals the Science That Can Only Be Done in the Dark

Jay Pasachoff explains what scientists can learn during a total solar eclipse.

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How Andrea Ghez Found a Supermassive Black Hole

The UCLA astrophysicist explains how tracking the movement of stars revealed the existence of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

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Svitlana Mayboroda: Taming Rogue Waves

Svitlana Mayboroda describes how the landscape function helps solve the mystery of wave localization.

14

Neil Johnson: A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right

Neil Johnson on the physics of collective human behavior.

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Nigel Goldenfeld: Seeing Emergent Physics Behind Evolution

Nigel Goldenfeld explains how condensed matter physics provides insights into the collective state of early life on Earth.

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Rebecca Goldin: Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World

Rebecca Goldin explains why quantitative literacy is so important.

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Michael Assis: Atomic Origami

Michael Assis demonstrates how defects can be used to tune the properties of Miura-ori origami.

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Federico Ardila: A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery

A Mathematician Who Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery

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Minhyong Kim: Connecting Number Theory to Physics

Minhyong Kim wanted to make sure he had concrete results in number theory before he admitted that his ideas were inspired by physics.

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Corina Tarnita: First Understand Nature’s Rules

Corina Tarnita argues that to fully appreciate nature, you must first understand its rules.