Theoretical physicist and astronomer Marcelo Glesier offers compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science...
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While evolution is how life on earth came to be, where does the evolution occur? At what level of the hierarchy of life—from genes to individuals to groups to...
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Two big ideas in biology: the evolution of species via mutation, fitness and natural selection; and the embryological development of individuals, from fertilized egg to whole...
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Season 23
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Nothing means anything without our brains: not science, not theology, not politics, not love. Everything we know and do-all the sense of human thought, all the feelings of...
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Season 05
Time seems natural and absolute: the flow of moments one following another from the unknown past to the knife’s edge present to the unknowable future. But this is not...
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Is the natural, physical world all-there-is? Or is there something more-a supernatural, nonphysical existence? I was trained in science, so I should be a naturalist....
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Season 08
Perhaps we cannot know the reason for the universe, if there is any. But is it even possible for the universe to have a reason? If yes, how would natural regularities and...
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Season 15
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The astonishing effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences, especially in physics, borders on the mysterious—and there seems no rational explanation. Our...
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Season 22
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Why do abstract mathematical equations produce exquisitely accurate descriptions of the world? The physicist Eugene Wigner called math’s usefulness “uncanny”—and he...
Art delights us, but how so, and why? Can art be modes of discovery and creation that enhance understanding? Explore art’s relationship with cognitive science,...
Season 20
Sean Carroll talks about about his terrific new book, The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion. He also dives into the importance of equations in popular...
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Freeman Dyson, visionary extraordinaire and creatively disruptive: realities inaccessible to science, independent mental, mind in the cosmos, science and theology, even...
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