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Irina Kareva
Math can help uncover cancer's secrets
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Apr 2018
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Vittorio Loreto
Need a new idea? Start at the edge of what is known
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Mohamad Jebara
This company pays kids to do their math homework
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Feb 2018
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Mona Chalabi
3 ways to spot a bad statistic
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Mar 2017
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Alan Smith
Why you should love statistics
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Dan Bricklin
Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet
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Jan 2017
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Roger Antonsen
Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world
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Nov 2016
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Rainn Wilson
Ideas worth dating
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Oct 2016
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Cédric Villani
What's so sexy about math?
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Jun 2016
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Jim Simons
The mathematician who cracked Wall Street
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Sep 2015
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Rajiv Maheswaran
The math behind basketball's wildest moves
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Jul 2015
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4:19
Jedidah Isler
How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe
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Apr 2015
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9:41
Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón
Math is forever
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Apr 2015
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13:58
Harry Baker
A love poem for lonely prime numbers
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Mar 2015
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Hannah Fry
The mathematics of love
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Feb 2015
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9:29
Randall Munroe
Comics that ask "what if?"
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May 2014
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12:10
Gavin Schmidt
The emergent patterns of climate change
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May 2014
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11:48
Alex Wissner-Gross
A new equation for intelligence
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Feb 2014
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6:24
Arthur Benjamin
The magic of Fibonacci numbers
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Nov 2013
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17:17
Adam Spencer
Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers
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Sep 2013
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Laura Snyder
The Philosophical Breakfast Club
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Apr 2013
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Freeman Hrabowski
4 pillars of college success in science
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Max Little
A test for Parkinson's with a phone call
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Aug 2012
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Hannah Fry
Is life really that complex?
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Aug 2012
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11:07
Michael Hansmeyer
Building unimaginable shapes
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Jul 2012
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E.O. Wilson
Advice to a young scientist
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Jun 2012
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Terry Moore
Why is 'x' the unknown?
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Seth Shostak
ET is (probably) out there — get ready
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David MacKay
A reality check on renewables
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May 2012
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Jean-Baptiste Michel
The mathematics of history
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May 2012
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Brian Greene
Is our universe the only universe?
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Apr 2012
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Adam Savage
How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries
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Mar 2012
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Chris Anderson
Questions no one knows the answers to
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Mar 2012
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Danny Hillis
Back to the future (of 1994)
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Feb 2012
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9:43
Scott Rickard
The beautiful math behind the world's ugliest music
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Jan 2012
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Daniel Wolpert
The real reason for brains
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Nov 2011
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