The Ignorance Podcast
The Ignorance Podcast
Podcast Description
Each episode, Mayla will interview a researcher or scientist about what questions excite them, what questions they’re currently pondering or working on, and the broader impact of these questions. The guests’ specific job and field will not be revealed until the end of the episode, as the point is for listeners to get a picture of the guest based solely on the questions they are asking.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes around scientific inquiry, personal reflections, and the broader implications of research. Episodes focus on the guests' curiosity-driven questions, as seen in the debut episode featuring James Wilson discussing energy costs in computation and the importance of small victories in academia.
The Ignorance Podcast presents a new way to communicate science and research that emphasizes questions and curiosity. It immerses listeners in a researcher’s way of thinking: how they grew to become who they are, why they think what they think, how their research shapes them, and their vision for the world.
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Join Mayla Boguslav as she discusses the place of Jargon in science communication with James Wilson!
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Website: https://www.math.colostate.edu/~jwilson/wilson.html
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-wilson-9909b4134/
People, places, and/or citations mentioned in this episode with links to learn more:
PEMDAS, Math order of operations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations#Mnemonics
Leonhard Euler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler
SCUBA etymology: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scuba
Cardiac Arrest: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/handbook/2023-physicians-mcod-handbook.pdf
Paul Dirac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac
Euclidian Geometry: https://farside.ph.utexas.edu/Books/Euclid/Elements.pdf
Hilbert Controversy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer%E2%80%93Hilbert_controversy
Turtles all the way down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
BICEP study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BICEP_and_Keck_Array
Bear etymology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear#Etymology
Different names for God in Judaism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism
Natural language processing: https://www.nnlm.gov/resources/data/data-glossary/natural-language-processing
A brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5n_UsmeEdI (opening)
Planet Word Museum, Washington DC, https://planetwordmuseum.org/
Producer & editor:
Joshua Mendel
Bluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.social
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