Minisode 5: Scary Math

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Sep 29, 201711:42Religion & Spirituality

In a scary time, in a scary world, in a scary universe, NASA astronomer Andrew Booth says one of the things that frightens him most is math. Specifically, the power of mathematics to describe the universe. That’s because...

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