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.
A Tree and Its People in a Warming Landscape
Science Couple Phages Out Superbug
Vaccine Rejection: Truth and Consequences
On the Origin of Darwin
Warming Arctic on Thin Ice
Fake Whiskeys and Octo-Ecstasy
Ultima Thule and the Apes of Earth
Meet the Real Ravenmaster
The Crusade against Dangerous Food, Part 2
The Crusade against Dangerous Food, Part 1
Bones and Stones: Cemetery Geology
Tinder for Cheetahs; and an Unusual Blindness
Better Living through Evolution: Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Laser Advances That Changed Our Lives: Nobel Prize in Physics
Unleashing Immunity against Cancer: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Where There's a Wills There's a Way to Explain the Home Run Rise
More People, but Less Hardship?
Here's Looking at Humanity, Kid
Life at the Improv: The Power of Imagination
Out with the Bad Science
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