| 1. |
Trailer: The Joy of Why |
March 17, 2022 |
| 2. |
Why Do We Die Without Sleep? |
March 23, 2022 |
| 3. |
Untangling Why Knots Are Important |
April 6, 2022 |
| 4. |
Why Is Inflammation a Dangerous Necessity? |
April 20, 2022 |
| 5. |
Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From? |
May 4, 2022 |
| 6. |
Will the James Webb Space Telescope Reveal Another Earth? |
May 18, 2022 |
| 7. |
How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide? |
June 1, 2022 |
| 8. |
What Is Life? |
June 15, 2022 |
| 9. |
Can Computers Be Mathematicians? |
June 29, 2022 |
| 10. |
How Do Mathematicians Know Their Proofs Are Correct? |
July 13, 2022 |
| 11. |
Why Do We Get Old, and Can Aging Be Reversed? |
July 27, 2022 |
| 12. |
What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete? |
Aug. 10, 2022 |
| 13. |
Why and How Do We Dream? |
Aug. 24, 2022 |
| 14. |
The Joy of Asking About Infinity, Jellyfish and the End of the Universe |
Feb. 9, 2023 |
| 15. |
How Will the Universe End? |
Feb. 22, 2023 |
| 16. |
Can We Program Our Cells? |
March 8, 2023 |
| 17. |
Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign? |
March 22, 2023 |
| 18. |
What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines? |
April 5, 2023 |
| 19. |
How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others? |
April 19, 2023 |
| 20. |
Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level? |
May 4, 2023 |
| 21. |
Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse? |
May 17, 2023 |
| 22. |
What Is the Nature of Consciousness? |
May 31, 2023 |
| 23. |
What Causes Giant Rogue Waves? |
June 14, 2023 |
| 24. |
What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics? |
June 28, 2023 |
| 25. |
Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart? |
July 12, 2023 |
| 26. |
Does Nothingness Exist? |
July 26, 2023 |
| 27. |
Trailer: The Joy of Why Season 3 |
Jan. 25, 2024 |
| 28. |
What Makes for ‘Good’ Math? |
Feb. 1, 2024 |
| 29. |
How Did Altruism Evolve? |
Feb. 15, 2024 |
| 30. |
What Is the Nature of Time? |
Feb. 29, 2024 |
| 31. |
What Is Quantum Teleportation? |
March 14, 2024 |
| 32. |
How Is Flocking Like Computing? |
March 28, 2024 |
| 33. |
Can Information Escape a Black Hole? |
April 11, 2024 |
| 34. |
What Does Milk Do for Babies? |
April 25, 2024 |
| 35. |
Will Better Superconductors Transform the World? |
May 9, 2024 |
| 36. |
What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? |
May 23, 2024 |
| 37. |
Can Psychedelics Improve Mental Health? |
June 6, 2024 |
| 38. |
How Is Science Even Possible? |
June 20, 2024 |
| 39. |
What Can Tiling Patterns Teach Us? |
July 3, 2024 |
| 40. |
Will AI Ever Have Common Sense? |
July 18, 2024 |
| 41. |
How Does Math Keep Our Secrets? |
Aug. 1, 2024 |
| 42. |
Are Robots About to Level Up? |
Aug. 15, 2024 |
| 43. |
Do We Need a New Theory of Gravity? |
Aug. 29, 2024 |
| 44. |
Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum? |
Sept. 12, 2024 |
| 45. |
From Sidedoor — Cosmic Journey I: "Stellar Buffoonery" |
Sept. 19, 2024 |
| 46. |
What Can Cave Life Tell Us About Alien Ecosystems? |
Sept. 26, 2024 |
| 47. |
How Can Math Help Beat Cancer? |
Oct. 10, 2024 |
| 48. |
Why Is It So Hard to Define a Species? |
Oct. 24, 2024 |
| 49. |
How Is AI Changing the Science of Prediction? |
Nov. 7, 2024 |
| 50. |
What Can Birdsong Teach Us About Human Language? |
Nov. 21, 2024 |
| 51. |
How Is Cell Death Essential to Life? |
Dec. 5, 2024 |
| 52. |
How Will We Know We’re Not Alone? |
Dec. 19, 2024 |
| 53. |
S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches |
Jan. 25, 2024 |
| 54. |
S4 Preview: More Big Questions and No Sasquatches |
March 13, 2025 |
| 55. |
How Did Multicellular Life Evolve? |
March 20, 2025 |
| 56. |
What Is the True Promise of Quantum Computing? |
April 3, 2025 |
| 57. |
Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab? |
April 17, 2025 |
| 58. |
Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans? |
May 1, 2025 |
| 59. |
How Did Geometry Create Modern Physics? |
May 15, 2025 |
| 60. |
Will We Ever Prove String Theory? |
May 29, 2025 |
| 61. |
Does Form Really Shape Function? |
June 12, 2025 |
| 62. |
How Does Graph Theory Shape Our World? |
June 26, 2025 |
| 63. |
How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science? |
July 10, 2025 |
| 64. |
Why Did The Universe Begin? |
July 24, 2025 |
| 65. |
How Can Math Protect Our Data? |
Aug. 7, 2025 |
| 66. |
Do Beautiful Birds Have an Evolutionary Advantage? |
Aug. 21, 2025 |
| 67. |
More Conversations, Complex Questions, and Bold Ideas in Season Five of ‘The Joy of Why’ |
June 4, 2026 |
| 68. |
What’s the Future of Gene Editing? |
June 11, 2026 |
| 69. |
What Is the Positive Grassmannian and Why Does It Show Up Everywhere? |
June 25, 2026 |
| 70. |
Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations? |
July 9, 2026 |
