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332 | Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music

October 20, 2025 | 4
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AMA | October 2025

October 13, 2025 | 1
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331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse

October 6, 2025 | 4
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330 | Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information

September 29, 2025 | 6
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329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge

September 22, 2025 | 3
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328 | Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies

September 15, 2025 | 2
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AMA | September 2025

September 8, 2025 | 2
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327 | Cass Sunstein on Liberalism

September 1, 2025 | 6
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326 | Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets

August 25, 2025 | 0
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325 | Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixels, and the Great Digital Convergence

August 18, 2025 | 3
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324 | Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research

August 11, 2025 | 1
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AMA | August 2025

August 4, 2025 | 1
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323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics

July 28, 2025 | 9
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322 | Philip Pettit on Language, Agency, Politics, and Freedom

July 21, 2025 | 5
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321 | David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory

July 14, 2025 | 10
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AMA | July 2025

July 7, 2025 | 5
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320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe

June 30, 2025 | 4
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319 | Bryan Van Norden on Philosophy From the Rest of the World

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318 | Edward Miguel on the Developing Practice of Development Economics

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317 | Nicole Rust on Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders

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AMA | June 2025

June 2, 2025 | 2
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316 | Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper on the Big Bang and Before

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315 | Branden Fitelson on the Logic and Use of Probability

May 19, 2025 | 1
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314 | Karen Lloyd on the Deep Underground Biosphere

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313 | Eric Topol on the Changing Face of Medicine and Aging

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AMA | May 2025

April 28, 2025 | 2
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312 | Thomas Levenson on The Mutual History of Humans and Germs

April 21, 2025 | 2
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311 | Annaka Harris on Whether Consciousness Is Fundamental

April 14, 2025 | 26
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AMA | April 2025

April 7, 2025 | 7
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310 | Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies

March 31, 2025 | 7
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309 | Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information

March 24, 2025 | 11
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308 | Alison Gopnik on Children, AI, and Modes of Thinking

March 17, 2025 | 4
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AMA | March 2025

March 10, 2025 | 1
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307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails

March 3, 2025 | 5
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306 | Helen Czerski on Our Energetic Oceans

February 24, 2025 | 1
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305 | Lilliana Mason on Polarization and Political Psychology

February 17, 2025 | 7
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Bonus | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter

February 12, 2025 | 11
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304 | James Evans on Innovation, Consolidation, and the Science of Science

February 10, 2025 | 3
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AMA | February 2025

February 3, 2025 | 3
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303 | James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System

January 27, 2025 | 3
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