Welcome to Uncertain, a five-part podcast miniseries from Scientific American. Here we will dive head first into the possibilities of the unknowing.
Over the next five episodes, I’ll be talking with people like her: explorers who work in the realm of uncertainty. Through them, we’ll discover the ways that uncertainty can spark curiosity and scientific breakthroughs. But we’ll also find out how uncertainty can bite us in the butt and make science really hard.
We’ll see how neglecting uncertainty can lead to overconfidence and how embracing uncertainty can allow for a more nuanced and accurate understanding of the world.
We’ll finish by examining how it’s possible to have confidence in scientific findings, even with their uncertainties.
Coronavirus Hot Zone: Research and Responses in the U.S. Epicenter
Coronavirus Hot Zone: The View from the U.S. Epicenter
The New Cosmos: A Conversation with Ann Druyan
Advancing Efforts in Disease Interception
Kirk, Spock and Darwin
How to Make a Mass Extinction
Air Pollution: An Unclear and Present Danger
150 Years of the Journal Nature
Lithium-Ion Battery Creators Win Chemistry Nobel Prize
How Cells Sense Oxygen Levels: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Talking Health and Energy at U.N. Climate Action Summit
Kicking Climate Change: Wins for Health, the Economy and Security
The Mathematical Language of Nature
Jacks-of-All-Trades Make the Grade
It's Melting: Science on Ice
Joseph Lange's Campaign against HIV
Bone Up on What's Inside You
Solving Our Plastic Problem
Secrets of the Universe Revealed!
How the Black Hole Said Cheese
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