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If you’re a curious person, and eager to understand how the world around beyond us works, you should try the podcasts our team chose each week.
Abakcus is the collection of perfect podcasts about mathematics and science.
The Joy of x Podcast
The acclaimed mathematician Steven Strogatz hosts some of the world’s leading scientists about their lives and work for the Joy of x podcast.
Science Diction
A weekly podcast about words and the science stories behind them. Science Diction is about words—and the science stories within them.
Surprisingly Brilliant
A science history podcast uncovering the little-known stories and less-talked-about people behind well-known science & tech.
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
Stuff To Blow Your Mind is a beautiful podcast about neurological quandaries, cosmic mysteries, evolutionary marvels and our future.
The Story Collider
The Story Collider helps people of all walks of life -- from scientists to doctors to patients to engineers to teachers to firefighters -- tell their true, personal stories about…
Data Skeptic
Data Skeptic is a podcast centered on machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Tune in for the latest interviews with leading experts.
My Favorite Theorem
Evelyn Lamb and Kevin Knudson talk with mathematicians about theorems! Of course, the podcast is also about who those mathematicians are as people, the interesting things that they do, and…
Ologies
Humorist and science correspondent Alie Ward asks smart people stupid questions and the answers might change your life.
Flash Forward
Flash Forward is a critically acclaimed podcast about the future. In each episode, host Rose Eveleth takes on a possible (or not so possible) future scenario — everything from the…
Mathematical Objects
Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett chat about some aspect of mathematics using a mathematical object as inspiration.
Women in Math: The limit does not exist
This podcast is an effort to promote the visibility of women in mathematics. Inspired by the fact that women are vast minority in higher mathematics, Women in Math: The Limit…
Science Vs
Science Vs takes on fads, trends, and the opinionated mob to find out what’s fact, what’s not, and what’s somewhere in between. Science Vs is your team of friendly fact…
A Brief History of Mathematics
Professor of Mathematics Marcus du Sautoy reveals the personalities behind the calculations and argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science.
Saving Apollo 13 ??
Saving Apollo 13 is the incredible story of NASA's Apollo 13 mission, told by Forensic Engineer Sean Brady. It’s the story of the spacecraft that failed en route to the…
The Numberphile
Interviews with people who love numbers and mathematics. Hosted by Brady Haran, maker of the Numberphile series on YouTube.
Speaking Tangentially
A series of talks and lectures from Oxford Mathematicians exploring the power and beauty of their subject. These talks would appeal to anyone interested in mathematics and its ever-growing range…
The Universe Speaks in Numbers
In The Universe Speaks in Numbers award-winning science writer Graham Farmelo is in conversation with some of the great names in modern physics and mathematics.
The Secrets of Mathematics
A series of talks and lectures from Oxford Mathematicians exploring the power and beauty of their subject. These talks would appeal to anyone interested in mathematics and its ever-growing range…
Relatively Prime: Stories from the Mathematical Domain
Relatively Prime features stories and interviews from the mathematical world. Featuring math stories from people like Fields Medalists to indie rockers to linguists on topics ranging as wide as the…
New Books in Mathematics
Interviews with Mathematicians about their New Books.
Opinionated History of Mathematics
Cracking tales of historical mathematics and its interplay with science, philosophy, and culture. Revisionist history is galore. Contrarian takes on received wisdom. Implications for teaching. Informed by current scholarship. By…
