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 pro...

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...

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...

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/youtub...

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about physics and astronomy as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Do all objects, including living things, emit radio waves? What is plasma? What's the likelihood there's another universe exactly like ours out there? What is a hypersphere? Is there a limit to how many dimensions you can have? Why do you have to acquire a certain s...

Stephen Wolfram continues the kick-off of the new Wolfram Physics Project, this time specifically for kids (and adults). See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp

Stephen Wolfram & Jonathan Gorard & Max Piskunov continue answering questions about the new Wolfram Physics Project, this time specifically for highly technical Computer Science implications. See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp

Stephen Wolfram & Jonathan Gorard continue answering questions about the new Wolfram Physics Project, this time specifically for Philosophy implications. See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp

Stephen Wolfram & Jonathan Gorard continue answering questions about the new Wolfram Physics Project, this time specifically for highly technical Math and Physics implications. See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp

Stephen Wolfram publicly kicks off an ambitious new project to find the Fundamental Theory of Physics, this time specifically for general questions about the project. See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp

Stephen Wolfram publicly kicks off an ambitious new project to find the Fundamental Theory of Physics. See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about physics and astronomy as part of an ongoing livestream Q&A series for kids (and others). Questions include: Why is there a speed limit (the speed of light)? - What is spin? - Is there maximum temperature? - Is there a maximum location accuracy for a GPS system? See the full Q&A video playlist on YouTube:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about physics and astronomy as part of an ongoing livestream Q&A series for kids (and others). Questions include: Is it possible to communicate with worlds outside our solar system? - Is it possible to make a suit that can make you grow and shrink at will like in Ant-Man? - How does a satellite stay in orbit around the earth (or a planet stay in orbit...

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about physics and astronomy as part of an ongoing livestream Q&A series for kids (and others). Questions include: How do windmills generate energy? - Why can't we see all light? - Why does space never end? - How did earth evolve? - What is heat? - Do magnets work in space? See the full Q&A video playlist on YouTube:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-...

In this third episode in a 3-part series, Stephen Wolfram details the backstory of the Wolfram Physics Project.

In this second episode in a 3-part series, Stephen Wolfram details the backstory of the Wolfram Physics Project.

In this first episode in a 3-part series, Stephen Wolfram details the backstory of the Wolfram Physics Project.

Stephen Wolfram gives a brief history of physics from Aristotle to Newton to Einstein and beyond---including simple conceptual explanations, historical footnotes and a few ideas about the future of the field.

In this episode, Stephen Wolfram, founder and CEO of Wolfram Research and creator of Wolfram|Alpha, celebrates his 60th Birthday by addressing the "what's next" question followed by an AMA.