<p>“The Joy of Why” is a <em>Quanta Magazine</em> 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.</p> <p>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.”</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| What Does Milk Do for Babies? | 2024-04-25 | ||
| Can Information Escape a Black Hole? | 2024-04-11 | ||
| How Is Flocking Like Computing? | 2024-03-28 | ||
| What Is Quantum Teleportation? | 2024-03-14 | ||
| What Is the Nature of Time? | 2024-02-29 | ||
| How Did Altruism Evolve? | 2024-02-15 | ||
| What Makes for ‘Good’ Math? | 2024-02-01 | ||
| Trailer: The Joy of Why Season 3 | 2024-01-25 | ||
| Does Nothingness Exist? | 2023-07-26 | ||
| Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart? | 2023-07-12 | ||
| What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics? | 2023-06-28 | ||
| What Causes Giant Rogue Waves? | 2023-06-14 | ||
| What Is the Nature of Consciousness? | 2023-05-31 | ||
| Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse? | 2023-05-17 | ||
| Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level? | 2023-05-04 | ||
| How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others? | 2023-04-19 | ||
| What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines? | 2023-04-05 | ||
| Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign? | 2023-03-22 | ||
| Can We Program Our Cells? | 2023-03-08 | ||
| How Will the Universe End? | 2023-02-22 |