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Who Is the Smartest Person in the Room?
Season 1 Episode 131
Tests and quick solutions make intelligence easy to rank, but speed is not the same as deep thinking. A flourishing mathematical community needs peop…
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Making Room at the Table
Season 1 Episode 130
What would it mean to practice hospitality in mathematics? It begins by remembering what it feels like to be new—and creating a space where people ar…
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The Aha Moment We Found Together
Season 1 Episode 129
A decades-old problem about football goalposts led to months of exploration—and an insight I never would have found alone. Sometimes another person b…
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I’m Struggling Too
Season 1 Episode 128
Struggling with mathematics can make us question whether we belong. But when someone else admits, “I don’t understand either,” community transforms t…
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The Myth of the Lone Mathematician
Season 1 Episode 127
Mathematics may look like solitary work, but no mathematician truly works alone. Our symbols, methods, questions, and insights come from teachers, st…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Whose Voice Can You Trust?
Season 1 Episode 126
Isolation can make one fearful voice sound like the whole truth. Trusted friends, wise mentors, and the experiences of those who came before us can h…
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What Does Your History Say?
Season 1 Episode 125
Actuaries study the past to better understand the future. When today feels uncertain, our own history can also provide perspective. What does your li…
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Following the Footprints
Season 1 Episode 124
The most important truths rarely arrive with a laboratory report or a sign in the sky. Love, purpose, and faith often reveal themselves through a ser…
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What If the Outlier Matters?
Season 1 Episode 123
An outlier can disrupt a clean set of data, but it can also reveal something the current model has missed. The unexpected parts of our lives may not …
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Are You Only Seeing What You Expect?
Season 1 Episode 122
Confirmation bias causes us to favor evidence that supports what we already believe. If we expect disappointment, we’ll find it everywhere. What migh…
1 month, 2 weeks ago