Steve Strogatz appears in the following:
Growth
Friday, March 14, 2025
The mysterious, awe-inspiring and sometimes uncontrollable forces that make things get big.
Why Do I Love the Fly That’s Eating My Brain?
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Today’s episode asks how scientists see the world. We bring you two stories: one about a math guy and one about a bug guy.
Zeroworld
Friday, December 29, 2023
In mathematics you’re allowed to do everything, for the most part, except for this.
Numbers
Friday, December 22, 2023
Love 'em or hate 'em, you rely on numbers every day. We ask how they confuse us, connect us, and even reveal secrets about us.
The Middle of Everything Ever
Friday, December 09, 2022
We all have moments when, facing the future or staring into the vastness of space, we feel small. But are we small? One listener asked us to find out.
Breaking Benford
Friday, November 13, 2020
The internet says an obscure mathematical law can tell us something about the 2020 US election. It can't. But it can tell us about us.
For the Love of Numbers
Friday, March 27, 2020
From favorite numbers to numbers that we’re suspicious of, from 501 jeans to Oxy 10, our feelings for these digits may all come down to some serious, subconscious inner-math.
Tit for Tat
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Do we really live in a selfish, dog-eat-dog world? Or has evolution carved out a hidden code that rewards genuine cooperation?
Infective Heredity
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Today, a fast moving, sidestepping, gene-swapping free-for-all that would’ve made Darwin’s head spin.
For the Love of Numbers
Friday, May 02, 2014
In this short, writer Alex Bellos tells Robert how, from the very first time humans ever used numbers, we couldn’t help but give them human-like qualities.
What a Slinky Knows
Monday, September 10, 2012
If you've played with a Slinky for more than five minutes, you've probably mastered all the classic moves
(In)completely Loopy
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
In the late 1800s, mathematicians fantasized about a machine that could answer any math question at all.
Loops
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
The surprising ways that loops steer… and sometimes derail… our lives.
The Good Show
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
If natural selection boils down to survival of the fittest, how do you explain why one creature might stick its neck out for another?
Limits
Monday, April 05, 2010
A journey to the edge of human limits -- from a bike race that makes the Tour de France look like child’s play, to a mind-stretching memory competition.
Numbers
Monday, November 30, 2009
Love 'em or hate 'em, you rely on numbers every day. We ask how they confuse us, connect us, and even reveal secrets about us.
Calculove
Monday, November 30, 2009
Producer Soren Wheeler brings us a story about a friendship between Steve Strogatz and his high school math teacher, Don Joffray.
From Benford to Erdös
Monday, November 30, 2009
Mark Nigrini shares the story of physicist Frank Benford, a man whose curiosity about a book inspired a bizarre discovery.
Are We Coins?
Monday, June 29, 2009
We follow up on our Stochasticity show with an exploration pf whether the little choices we make every day are predictable or not.
Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters
Monday, January 12, 2009
Stories of love and loss in the name of science.
