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Can Math Make You Win? Gambler's Ruin, & Bingo Paradoxes with Arthur Benjamin

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Math Trauma vs. Math Anxiety: What's Actually Holding You Back?

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Forecasting Explained: How Prediction Markets Beat Experts

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What Actually Makes Something Alive? with Melanie Challenger

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Why Uncertainty Is Science's Greatest Strength with Stuart Firestein

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Robot Proof: Why Better AI Starts With Better People with Vivienne Ming

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Why Nothing Works: Robber Barons, Algorithms & Governing AI

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Can Math Save Journalism?: Julia Angwin on Proof, Power, and Amazon's Algorithm

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The Proof in the Code: How Lean Is Quietly Rewriting Trust in Math (w/ Kevin Hartnett)

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How Data Science Exposes Injustice: Chad Topaz on Unlocking Justice

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Rise of the Robots: Is AI Coming for Your Job?

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The Echoing Universe: How Radio Waves, AI, and Math Could Help Us Find Aliens with Emma Chapman

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AI Solves 80-Year-Old Math Conjecture: What It Means for the Future of Mathematics

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The Science of Addiction: Dopamine, Social Media, and the Myth of Willpower with Maia Szalavitz

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Are We Being Misled by Data? Ron Wasserstein on AI, Bias, and Statistical Truth

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How Ransomware Became a Global Industry with Anja Shortland on Dark Screens

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Explaining Huge Numbers with Richard Elwes

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AI Isn’t Replacing You—It’s Changing the Rules with Sheamus McGovern

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Math and Magic with Matt Baker

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Credibility Crisis in Science with Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer

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Denied, Then Unstoppable: The Story of Mary T. Washington Wylie

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The Power of Connection in Math: Insights from Hortensia Soto

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Florence Nightingale: Data-Driven Reformer of Medicine

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The Math Behind Gerrymandering, Fair Representation, and Politics with Karen Saxe

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Anna Schwartz: The Economist Who Changed How We Study Economies

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Disappearing Grants, Genius Grants, and the AI Proofs with Lauren K. Williams

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Priscilla Wakefield: Empowering Women Through Financial Literacy

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Why Mathematicians Must Speak Up with Bryna Kra

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Reaching for the Extreme with Ian Stewart

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Rethinking Mathematical Value in the Age of AI with Ravi Vakil

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AI, Pi, Dynamic Pricing, and Math History Lessons

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A New Chapter of Breaking Math: Get to Know Your Hosts

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The Elements of Power: Supply Chains, Technology, and Energy with Nicolas Niarchos

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The Score: Gamifying the Nature of Metrics with Thi Nguyen

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The Art of Physics: Bridging Science and Creativity with Ronald Gamble

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Intelligent Systems: Digital Culture Shock

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Who is Francis Crick?

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Mathematics and Humanity: The Untold Stories of the Great Math War

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The Future of Physics: Portals to a New Reality

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AI vs Human Intelligence: The Emergent Mind

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The Giant Leap

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Dinosaurs with Rachel Ignotofsky

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Charlatans with Quico Toro

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Economica with Victoria Bateman

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Blueprints with Marcus du Sautoy

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Unequal with Eugenia Cheng

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Breaking Math: When Math Meets a Technology Glitch

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Hate the Game

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Dots and Lines: Hidden Networks

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Robin Hood Math

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What are Swim Training Patterns?

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AI Ethics: Algorithms Go To College

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Random Shuffle Isn't Random At All

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Algorithms & AI Simplified - The Not So Mathy Version

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What is Cryptography?

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We Live in a Radioactive World: What is Dosimetry?

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What is Life?

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Fire Science: What are Photoacoustic Measurements?

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What is Time?

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What is Measurement?

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How Analytics Can Revolutionize Affordable Energy

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What is Chaos Theory?

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AI in the Lab: How GPT-4 is Changing Molecules and Models

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The Fluid Dynamics of Sheep

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The Discovery of the Largest Prime Number: M136279841

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Exploring GFlowNets and AI-Driven Material Discovery for Carbon Capture

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Victorian Era Spooky Scientists & Paranormal Activity

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Is AI Conscious?

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Molecular dynamics simulation with GFlowNets: machine learning the importance of energy estimators in computational chemistry and drug discovery

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Do Plants Know Math?

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Mapmatics: A Mathematician's Guide to Navigating the World with Maps with Paulina Rowinska

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The Intentional Engineer (with Jeff Perry)

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Math for English Majors with Ben Orlin

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What is Data Visualization? From the Expert Behind PolicyViz

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Love Triangle and Other Maths (with Matt Parker)

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The Black Hole Heist

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Black Holes: The Abyss Part 3

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Black Holes: The Abyss Part 2

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Black Holes: The Abyss Part 1

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What are Journal Rankings? The basics: a minisode.

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Why Machines Learn: The Math Behind AI

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The Intersection of Mathematics and Democracy

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Math Lounge: Celebrating 101 Episodes

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Minisode: Absolutely Nothing

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Can We Survive on Mars? Hot Tips with Zach Weinersmith (Part 2)

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Can We Survive on Mars? Hot Tips with Zach Weinersmith

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What's the Use? Interview with Professor Ian Stewart

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Bayes' Theorem Explains It All: An Interview with Tom Chivers

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Interview with Steve Nadis, Co-author of 'Gravity of Math'

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The 10,000 Year Problem (feat. David Gibson of Ray Kitty Creation Workship)

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The Mathematical Heart of Games Explored with Prof. du Sautoy

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Brain Organelles, AI, and Other Scary Science - An Interview with GT (Part 2)

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LEAN Theorem Provers used to model Physics and Chemistry

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Brain Organelles, AI, and the Other Scary Science - An Interview with GT (Part 1)

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Can OpenAi's SORA learn and model real-world physics? (Part 1 of n)

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OpenAi SORA, Physics-Informed ML, and a.i. Fraud- Oh My!

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Math, Music, and Artificial Intelligence - Levi McClain Interview (Final Part)

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Math, Music, Neuroscience, and Fear - an Interview with Musician Levi McClain

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Intelligence in Nature v. Machine Learning - an Interview with Brit Cruise(Part 2)

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Intelligence in Nature v. Machine Learning-An Interview with Brit Cruise - Part 1 of 2