The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [October 1, 2021]

Sep 23, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Foraging Techniques for Flying Cockroaches
02:04 • 2min
3
How Does a Fly Make Its Randomness?
04:07 • 2min
4
How Randomness Is Generated in the Brain of the Fly
06:36 • 2min
5
What's the Difference Between Walking, Trot, Canter, Gallop?
08:09 • 2min
6
How Do We Know Why the Fish Made That Pattern?
10:14 • 2min
7
The Purpose of the Fish
12:22 • 3min
8
How to Make a Plastic Elephant
15:30 • 1min
9
How Do Threedy Printers Work?
16:59 • 4min
10
Architecture From Science
20:42 • 4min
11
Building a Building From Rules
25:11 • 2min
12
Does the Roof Leak?
27:22 • 2min
13
Can You Build a Suspension Bridge?
29:31 • 3min
14
Traffic Light Systems - How Do They Work?
32:23 • 2min
15
How Do You Avoid Gridlock?
34:02 • 4min
16
Is There a Time Delay in Road Traffic?
38:00 • 2min
17
Traffic Flow Modelling Is a Multiscale Thing
40:29 • 4min
18
Is It Red and Yellow at the Same Time?
44:25 • 2min
19
How Are the Magnetic North and Geographical North Poles Related?
46:24 • 2min
20
How Does a Bar Magnet Work?
48:46 • 2min
21
How Does the Earth End Up Having a Magnetic Field?
50:58 • 2min
22
The Magnetic Field of the Earth Changes With Time
53:18 • 4min
23
What Is Carboniferous Carbon Bearing?
57:40 • 4min
24
How Much Oil Is There?
01:01:52 • 3min
25
The Problem of Oil and Water Mixing in Porous Rock
01:05:00 • 2min
26
How This Series Might Evolve?
01:06:46 • 3min
27
Is This a Good Idea?
01:09:58 • 2min
28
Is There a Neural Network?
01:11:48 • 3min
29
What Are Matrixes?
01:14:51 • 2min
30
How Do You Transform a Point in Three Dimensional Space?
01:16:22 • 2min
31
Is There a Matrix Product Operation That Produces a Constant?
01:18:44 • 3min
32
The Big Picture of Igen Vectors
01:21:44 • 1min
33
A, Am, and a Look Forward to a Talking With You Another Time.
01:23:12 • 2min