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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [May 22, 2026]
28/05/2026 | 52 mins.
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Topics: Why perpetual motion machines fail - What might be driving the universe's expansion - How particles emerge from the structure of space - Entropy and the Big Bang theory - How temperature can become negative
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (May 15, 2026)
28/05/2026 | 1h 26 mins.
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlhZURSQIs8&list=PLxn-kpJHbPx2vIchOwIBRkDeKjuJDYTOQ

Topics discussed: How human understanding evolves - The future of the scientific method - Restoring movement after paralysis - Using physics to look back at Earth's history - Life in virtual worlds - Space-based data centers - AI for verifying code
Business, Innovation and Managing Life (May 13, 2026)
28/05/2026 | 1h 22 mins.
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-704PZz0Uo&list=PLxn-kpJHbPx0UJceDNIMUAcjYGYFnW8yo

Topics discussed: Open source in the age of AI - Making AI useful without being fooled by it - Accountability for ownerless AI - Deploying AI in the real world
History of Science & Technology Q&A (May 6, 2026)
27/05/2026 | 1h 13 mins.
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE03Z481PVg&list=PLxn-kpJHbPx3IO8b1yvkNyASj9i_Tw4n8&pp=0gcJCdAEOCosWNin

Topics: Lessons from the history of science - Why scientific progress isn't linear - Ancient inefficiencies and bad inventions - AI, automation and human motivation - Why humans started doing math
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [May 1, 2026]
14/05/2026 | 1h 21 mins.
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Topics: Why brains matter in biology - Evolution beyond biology - Why evolution builds life the way it does

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About The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Over the course of nearly four decades, he has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking—and has been responsible for many discoveries, inventions and innovations in science, technology and business. On his podcast, Stephen discusses topics ranging from the history of science to the future of civilization and ethics of AI.

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