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The Most Unorthodox Mathematician Of Our Times (opens the original)
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In this episode, we step into the aggressively multidimensional world of Dr. Emily Riehl, a Professor of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. To the academic establishment, she is a world-class visionary shaping fields like higher category theory and homotopy type theory, authoring advanced textbooks, and speaking at the prestigious International Congress of Mathematicians. But away from her university blackboard, Riehl completely upends the traditional mathematician stereotype: she is an in
Biggest Injustice & Eventual Justice in Nobel Prize History (opens the original)
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In 1967, in a muddy field outside Cambridge, a telescope made of wood and wire was listening to the sky. It wasn't a gleaming dish, but a massive "agricultural frame" covering the space of 57 tennis courts, designed to hear the faint whispers of radio waves from the edges of creation. The person responsible for making sense of this noise was 24-year-old graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell . While scanning miles of paper tape, she noticed a "scruff" that didn't fit—a pulse so regular it seemed
The Dark Lady of DNA (opens the original)
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"Our dark lady is leaving us next week." With those chilly words, written in a private letter in 1953, the race for the secret of life reached its bittersweet end. While Watson and Crick are household names for the discovery of the double helix, the woman whose data made it possible— Rosalind Franklin —was long relegated to a footnote, caricatured as a "difficult" obstacle in the path of progress. In this episode of Mavericks of Science, we look beyond the myth of the "Dark Lady" to meet the rea
Fastest Rising Star of Astro-Physics (opens the original)
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In the summer of 2018, inside a small, hot room at Harvard University, an image began to form on a computer screen that would change our understanding of the cosmos. It was a bright, fiery ring surrounding a dark central void—the first-ever image of a black hole. At the heart of this milestone was Katie Bouman , a computer scientist who helped translate petabytes of noisy, incomplete data from a global network of telescopes into a legible picture. In this episode of Mavericks of Science , we exp
Musician who Went on to become a Leading AI Researcher (opens the original)
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Before she was a professor investigating the hidden costs of algorithms, Kate Crawford was a central figure in Australia’s electronic music scene. Today, she is a Research Professor at USC and a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, but she hasn't lost the artist's ability to see the "grain" of the machines we use. Her work reveals a startling truth: artificial intelligence is not "artificial" at all—it is a deeply physical, extractive, and political industry. In this episode of Mav
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