NaN/100 votes#1 - Leslie Valiant: Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life
Season 2016 Episode 1 - Aired 1/29/2016
Leslie Valiant explains the term "ecorithm."
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#2 - Are We Alone in the Universe?
Season 2016 Episode 2 - Aired 2/4/2016
David Kaplan explores the best ways to search for alien life on distant planets.
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#3 - Michael Atiyah's Imaginative State of Mind
Season 2016 Episode 3 - Aired 3/4/2016
Michael Atiyah discusses beauty in mathematics.
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#4 - David Deamer: How We’re Studying the Origins of Life
Season 2016 Episode 4 - Aired 3/17/2016
David Deamer explains how his laboratory mimics the extreme conditions found on volcanoes in the early Earth.
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#5 - Is That 'Bump' a New Particle?
Season 2016 Episode 5 - Aired 4/14/2016
David Kaplan explains how a curious signal in the Large Hadron Collider's latest data could upset the Standard Model of physics — or mean nothing at all.
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#6 - Tiny Tests Seek the Universe's Big Mysteries
Season 2016 Episode 6 - Aired 5/4/2016
David Moore explains why we might expect to find strange things when we study gravity at small scales.
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#7 - David Moore: Tabletop Physics
Season 2016 Episode 7 - Aired 5/5/2016
Stanford University physicist David Moore explains how his team’s tabletop experiment uses lasers and tiny glass spheres to test gravity.
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#8 - Janna Levin on Science and Culture
Season 2016 Episode 8 - Aired 5/6/2016
Janna Levin talks about her roles as scientific director at a “center for art and innovation” in Brooklyn and as a physicist and writer.
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#9 - Ken Ono: A Life Inspired by an Unexpected Genius
Season 2016 Episode 9 - Aired 5/23/2016
Ken Ono explains how Ramanujan has served as his “guardian angel” throughout his life and career.
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#10 - Suchitra Sebastian: An Explorer of Quantum Borderlands
Season 2016 Episode 10 - Aired 6/10/2016
Suchitra Sebastian talks about how extreme conditions can create unexpected quantum behavior.
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#11 - How Does Life Come From Randomness?
Season 2016 Episode 11 - Aired 6/30/2016
David Kaplan explains how the law of increasing entropy could drive random bits of matter into the stable, orderly structures of life.
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#12 - Miranda Cheng: A Moonshine Master Toys with String Theory
Season 2016 Episode 12 - Aired 8/4/2016
Miranda Cheng explains what umbral moonshine is and how it might illuminate string theory.
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#13 - Tracy Slatyer: A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light
Season 2016 Episode 13 - Aired 9/1/2016
Tracy Slatyer explains why she’s not disappointed when a mysterious cosmic signal turns out to be something other than dark matter.
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#14 - Peter and Rosemary Grant
Season 2016 Episode 14 - Aired 9/22/2016
Peter and Rosemary Grant explain how our understanding of evolution has changed in their lifetimes.
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#15 - Pencils Down: The Art of Teaching Math and Science
Season 2016 Episode 15 - Aired 10/11/2016
What can we learn from the best teachers on the front lines? To shine a spotlight on this linchpin of our education system, Quanta Magazine followed four master science and math teachers into their classrooms.
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#16 - Pencils Down: Channa Comer of Baychester Middle School
Season 2016 Episode 16 - Aired 10/11/2016
Channa Comer teaches 6th-grade science. She focuses on engagement so kids will want to keep learning.
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#17 - Pencils Down: Mike Zitolo of School of the Future
Season 2016 Episode 17 - Aired 10/11/2016
Michael Zitolo is turning the way science is approached in the classroom upside down.
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#18 - Pencils Down: Soni Midha of East Side Community High School
Season 2016 Episode 18 - Aired 10/11/2016
In school or in life, Soni Midha wants her math students to be able to prove why something is correct.
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#19 - Pencils Down: Aaron Mathieu of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Season 2016 Episode 19 - Aired 10/11/2016
Students need a chance to fail at science to learn about its process, says Aaron Mathieu.
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#20 - Pencils Down: Channa Comer Teaching About Scientific Controls
Season 2016 Episode 20 - Aired 10/11/2016
What's a control? Channa Comer challenges her students to explain and work things out for themselves.
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#21 - Helen Quinn: A Wormhole Between Physics and Education
Season 2016 Episode 21 - Aired 10/18/2016
A Wormhole Between Physics and Education
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#22 - Michael Costanzo: Giant Genetic Map Reveals Life’s Hidden Links
Season 2016 Episode 22 - Aired 10/26/2016
Michael Costanzo, a biologist at the University of Toronto and a lead author on the new study, explains why it’s important to understand how genes interact.
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#23 - Richard Lenski: A Conductor of Evolution’s Subtle Symphony
Season 2016 Episode 23 - Aired 11/3/2016
Richard Lenski discusses how he has been surprised by evolution.
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#24 - Cynthia Dwork: How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair
Season 2016 Episode 24 - Aired 11/23/2016
Cynthia Dwork explains how to conduct a survey that asks people if they do embarrassing — or even illicit — things.
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#25 - Erik Verlinde: The Case Against Dark Matter
Season 2016 Episode 25 - Aired 11/29/2016
Erik Verlinde describes how emergent gravity and dark energy can explain away dark matter.
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Season 2016 Ratings Summary
"Leslie Valiant: Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life" is the best rated episode of "Quanta Magazine" season 2016. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/29/2016. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Are We Alone in the Universe?".