The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: How can you connect to the internet without wifi? How does 5G technology work? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Should we teach kids how computers work? How does a computer work inside? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Can intelligence be quantified? What is the correspondence between intelligence and comprehension? How effectively can we communicate with animals? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about education and careers as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: What careers would you recommend for an engineer? - What's your take on specialization vs generalization? - What physical experiments do you recommend for kids? - What role did you play in your kids' education? - Can you recommend any fun projects for a starting programmer? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about education and careers as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Does the increased use of computational languages make us forget the basics of math? - How do you recommend students with a solid calculus background to learn physics and mathematics? - Why do many old technical institutions use manual calculation rather than modern computational tools? - What book behind you has had the most impact on you and your peers? - How can one improve their mathematical and scientific thinking? - Do you have a suggestion for someone who finds math fascinating but has difficulty with homework and tests? - How can someone be good at one kind of math/programming and bad at another? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about mathematics and computation as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: What is the most curious property of prime numbers? How far are we from building self-replicating Von Neumann machines? How do online advertisers know what I want? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about mathematics and computation as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Is there anything you'd add to or subtract from A New Kind of Science? How feasible is it to create a computational model of a biological organism? Why do many old technical institutions use manual calculation rather than modern computational tools? How do you prove that 1+1=2? Can we do computation not based on silicon technology? What really is computation? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about physics and astronomy as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: What happens when you sneeze in space? - Do scientists always use metric units? - What's the relationship between electricity and magnetism? - Why is the sky blue? - How does a space station work? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about life sciences as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Is a single virus enough to get you? - How will pandemic treatment look in ten years? - How do antibodies work? - How can Mathematica reduce the time needed to make new vaccines? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about life sciences as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: What happened to the dinosaurs? - What is a virus? - Why we don't have medicine for a virus-only vaccines? - Are viruses alive? - Why is the human brain so mushy? - Did people evolve from monkeys? See the full Q&A video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa