Mario Livio works with the Hubble Telescope's findings on phenomena like dark energy and white dwarfs. We explore edges of discovery where scientific advance meets recurrent mystery — questions richer than any of their current answers.
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Live from the studio, we captured Brother Guy and Father George's best lines and paired it with a video from The Colbert Report.
» The Wonder of the Cosmos (Through an Upgraded Lens)
Comments from two cosmologists and NASA's images from the newly-refurbished Hubble telescope.
» White Mountain Milky Way
A minute-long time lapse film of the Milky Way taken in Mauna Kea, Hawai’i will surely spark your sense of wonder.
» Calvin and Hobbes: Math Is a Religion
A classic comic on faith in equations. "You take two numbers and when you add them, they magically become one new number!"
» The Ineluctable Modality of Numbers
Is math a basic need we intuit like hunger, thirst, and love?
» "On Truth and Beauty"
Video of a Seed salon with Janna Levin and fiction writer Jonathon Lethem.
» The Dance of the Fertile Universe
13.7 billion years scaled into one year helps makes sense of the universe's massive scale in this video + chart.
"Dust and Stars"
Krista's interview with astrophysicist Howard Smith paired with images of the cosmos.
Mario Livio
Livio is senior astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute and author of many books, including Is God a Mathematician?
Funding provided in part by the John Templeton Foundation.
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