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“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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Episode Playlist

50 Episodes
Do Beautiful Birds Have an Evolutionary Advantage?
Aug 21, 2025•—

Do Beautiful Birds Have an Evolutionary Advantage?

How Can Math Protect Our Data?
Aug 7, 2025•—

How Can Math Protect Our Data?

Why Did The Universe Begin?
Jul 24, 2025•—

Why Did The Universe Begin?

How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science?
Jul 10, 2025•—

How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science?

How Does Graph Theory Shape Our World?
Jun 26, 2025•—

How Does Graph Theory Shape Our World?

Does Form Really Shape Function?
Jun 12, 2025•—

Does Form Really Shape Function?

Will We Ever Prove String Theory?
May 29, 2025•—

Will We Ever Prove String Theory?

How Did Geometry Create Modern Physics?
May 15, 2025•—

How Did Geometry Create Modern Physics?

Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans?
May 1, 2025•—

Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans?

Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab?
Apr 17, 2025•—

Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab?

What Is the True Promise of Quantum Computing?
Apr 3, 2025•—

What Is the True Promise of Quantum Computing?

How Did Multicellular Life Evolve?
Mar 20, 2025•—

How Did Multicellular Life Evolve?

S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches
Mar 13, 2025•—

S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches

How Will We Know We’re Not Alone?
Dec 19, 2024•—

How Will We Know We’re Not Alone?

How Is Cell Death Essential to Life?
Dec 5, 2024•—

How Is Cell Death Essential to Life?

What Can Birdsong Teach Us About Human Language?
Nov 21, 2024•—

What Can Birdsong Teach Us About Human Language?

How Is AI Changing the Science of Prediction?
Nov 7, 2024•—

How Is AI Changing the Science of Prediction?

Why Is It So Hard to Define a Species?
Oct 24, 2024•—

Why Is It So Hard to Define a Species?

How Can Math Help Beat Cancer?
Oct 10, 2024•—

How Can Math Help Beat Cancer?

What Can Cave Life Tell Us About Alien Ecosystems?
Sep 26, 2024•—

What Can Cave Life Tell Us About Alien Ecosystems?

From Sidedoor — Cosmic Journey I: "Stellar Buffoonery"
Sep 19, 2024•—

From Sidedoor — Cosmic Journey I: "Stellar Buffoonery"

Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum?
Sep 12, 2024•—

Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum?

Do We Need a New Theory of Gravity?
Aug 29, 2024•—

Do We Need a New Theory of Gravity?

Are Robots About to Level Up?
Aug 15, 2024•—

Are Robots About to Level Up?

How Does Math Keep Our Secrets?
Aug 1, 2024•—

How Does Math Keep Our Secrets?

Will AI Ever Have Common Sense?
Jul 18, 2024•—

Will AI Ever Have Common Sense?

What Can Tiling Patterns Teach Us?
Jul 3, 2024•—

What Can Tiling Patterns Teach Us?

How Is Science Even Possible?
Jun 20, 2024•—

How Is Science Even Possible?

Can Psychedelics Improve Mental Health?
Jun 6, 2024•—

Can Psychedelics Improve Mental Health?

What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression?
May 23, 2024•—

What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression?

Will Better Superconductors Transform the World?
May 9, 2024•—

Will Better Superconductors Transform the World?

What Does Milk Do for Babies?
Apr 25, 2024•—

What Does Milk Do for Babies?

Can Information Escape a Black Hole?
Apr 11, 2024•—

Can Information Escape a Black Hole?

How Is Flocking Like Computing?
Mar 28, 2024•—

How Is Flocking Like Computing?

What Is Quantum Teleportation?
Mar 14, 2024•—

What Is Quantum Teleportation?

What Is the Nature of Time?
Feb 29, 2024•—

What Is the Nature of Time?

How Did Altruism Evolve?
Feb 15, 2024•—

How Did Altruism Evolve?

What Makes for ‘Good’ Math?
Feb 1, 2024•—

What Makes for ‘Good’ Math?

S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches
Jan 25, 2024•—

S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches

Trailer: The Joy of Why Season 3
Jan 25, 2024•—

Trailer: The Joy of Why Season 3

Does Nothingness Exist?
Jul 26, 2023•—

Does Nothingness Exist?

Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?
Jul 12, 2023•—

Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?

What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics?
Jun 28, 2023•—

What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics?

What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?
Jun 14, 2023•—

What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?

What Is the Nature of Consciousness?
May 31, 2023•—

What Is the Nature of Consciousness?

Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?
May 17, 2023•—

Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?

Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level?
May 3, 2023•—

Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level?

How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others?
Apr 19, 2023•—

How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others?

What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines?
Apr 5, 2023•—

What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines?

Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign?
Mar 22, 2023•—

Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign?

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