In this episode, Anna Rose chats with Théo Madzou and Michael Elliot from ZKPassport and Obsidion about their ZK-based identity solution. Théo shares his start in ZK through ZK Hack hackathons using Noir, while Mike shares his path from Bitcoin and MakerDAO to working on zkID systems. They explain how they teamed up to build ZKPassport, a non-profit public-good ZK identity solution project,and how they plan to bring it into Obsidion, a for-profit, privacy-focused fintech-style application that

Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week:The Daily Mail says that over half of the UK population live in households that get more in benefits than they pay in tax - is it true?Do some billionaires earn more in a night than the population of Bournemouth earns in a year? New Green leader Zack Polanski seems to think so - we scrutinise the figures.Are older generations getting smarter?Have 77% of Gen-Z brought a parent along to a job interview? Really?If you’ve seen a number

In this Deep Dive episode, we explore the undeciphered Indus script of the Harappan civilization. With thousands of inscribed seals and texts—often just five signs long—and no bilingual Rosetta Stone, the question remains: is it a genuine language or a symbolic system? We dissect the leading theories—from Dravidian-linked linguistics to skeptics who see non-linguistic proto-writing—and weigh the evidence from sign inventories, direction of writing, and recent computational analyses. Join us a...

Welcome back to The Mathematicians Podcast! This episode introduces our first "John" – John Philoponus, also known as John the Grammarian or John of Alexandria. This Christian theologian, philosopher, and arguably mathematician from 6th-century Egypt is primarily known for his religious doctrine, but we look into the fascinating overlap between mathematics and religion: the nature of infinity. Join us as we explore Philoponus's arguments against the Aristotelian view of an eternal cosmos, his

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A deep dive into Weierstrass's famous construction: an infinite sum of cosines that stays continuous everywhere but has no tangent anywhere. We’ll unpack how shrinking amplitudes and rapidly increasing frequencies create endless jaggedness, trace the historical shock to 19th‑century intuition, compare with Riemann’s near-miss, and connect to fractals and modern analysis where such functions aren’t pathologies but natural in the landscape of continuous functions. Note: This podcast was AI-gene...

Send us a text In this episode of Math Chat, we dive deep into planning for Word Problem Workshop (WPW) and how to maximize your preparation time. Instead of focusing on what students will do, we’re shifting the focus to how students will engage with and solve math problems. Want to learn how to plan math lessons that encourage deep thinking and problem-solving? Keep reading! When planning math lessons, we typically spend time thinking about the activities, practice problems, and worksheets. ...

Send us a text Earlier this year the the anomalous mathematical patterns sci-art competition attracted some jaw-dropping entries. The competition was held in connection to the Stochastic systems for anomalous diffusion research programme which took place at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI) in Cambridge last year. In this episode of Living Proof, we talk to Codina Cotar, who co-organised the INI programme and helped put on the competition. Codina explains the ma...

From tallying goats to launching rockets, this episode takes you on a fast-paced, lighthearted journey through the complete history of mathematics. Inspired by D.E. Smith’s The History of Mathematics, this is the espresso version — goats, Greeks, calculus cage matches, infinity, and beyond. 3 Things Listeners Will Learn: How early humans counted goats, stars, and time with sticks, pebbles, and sky-watching. Why Newton and Leibniz’s feud over calculus was the most brutal “cage match” in math

Exploring StarCloud, the Nvidia Inception startup aiming to move high-performance computing off Earth to solve energy, cooling, and water bottlenecks. From vacuum-based space cooling to a planned 5 GW orbital data center spanning roughly 4 by 4 kilometers of solar farms, and the leap of housing H100 GPUs in orbit, we unpack what this could mean for real-time Earth observation, SAR data processing, and emergency response. We examine immediate applications like wildfire detection and rapid disa...

We explore how a 27‑billion-parameter biology foundation model from the Gemma family generated a testable, context‑dependent hypothesis that boosts MHCI antigen presentation only under a specific immune condition. Through a dual‑context virtual screen, somatassertib (CX4945) was predicted to act as a conditional amplifier and validated experimentally in human neuroendocrine cells, marking a milestone in AI‑driven biology. We discuss the implications for cancer immunotherapy, the future of AI‑...

Why a near-light-speed sphere isn’t visually squashed. We trace the Terrell–Penrose illusion—from Lampa’s early intuition to Penrose and Terrell’s geometry—and highlight a 2025 lab demonstration that uses ultra-fast imaging to recreate relativistic visuals, showing how light-travel time reshapes what you see in special relativity. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical information. Sponsored by Embersilk LLC

Discover A000377, a seemingly simple integer sequence whose average converges to π/√6. This episode unpacks how the sequence is born from Ramanujan theta functions and Dedekind eta quotients, and how these two complex definitions yield the same integers. We explain its multiplicativity (a(2n)=a(n), a(3n)=a(n)), the prime-power rules depending on p mod 24 (e+1 when p ≡ 1,5,7,11 mod 24; alternating 0/1 when p ≡ 13,17,19,23 mod 24), and why zeros appear. We’ll connect to modular forms, the modul...

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In this conversation, Quico discusses the nature of gullibility and the tactics used by charlatans to exploit people's beliefs. He provides insights into various case studies, including astrology and blood types, and highlights notable charlatans like Baba Ramdev and the impact of mega churches. The discussion also covers modern scams in the crypto space and emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and awareness in navigating a world filled with misinformation and exploitation. It's made known

The provided texts offer an overview of Fraser Raeburn's book, "Scots and the Spanish Civil War," along with critical analysis of the poetry of Sorley MacLean, demonstrating the profound impact of the Spanish Civil War on both Scottish political action and Gaelic literature. The first source details the scope of Raeburn's academic study, focusing on the demographics, political affiliations (particularly the Communist Party), and social networks of Scottish volunteers in the International Brig...

The provided sources consist primarily of an abstract for a journal article, "Ranavalona I of Madagascar: African Jezebel or Patriot?", alongside a lengthy list of related academic publications, mainly authored by Gwyn Campbell, on the history of Madagascar. The main article abstract proposes a critical re-evaluation of Queen Ranavalona I, who is conventionally portrayed as a brutal, xenophobic ruler, contrasting her with her supposedly enlightened predecessor, King Radama I; instead, the aut...

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The connection between Scottish folklorist Hamish Henderson and Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci is a powerful example of how intellectual ideas can cross borders and cultures to fuel radical social change. While separated by nationality and generation, Henderson found in Gramsci’s work a vital theoretical framework for his own cultural mission in Scotland. Antonio Gramsci, writing from Mussolini’s prisons, revolutionized Marxist thought by arguing that social change requires not just politica...

The provided text is an excerpt from a 2015 academic article titled "Media encoding in science fiction television: Battlestar Galactica as a site of critical cultural production," authored by Peter A. Chow-White, Danielle Deveau, and Philippa Adams. This article examines the production process of the television show Battlestar Galactica (BSG) through interviews with writers, actors, and producers to understand how meaning is "encoded" into the media text. The study investigates the creators' ...