Coming Soon: 'Uncertain' - A New Short Series on the Thrill of Not Knowing

Science Talk

Does the word "uncertainty" make you nervous? Does it rule your life? Would you say it kinda describes the state of the world these days?

Enter Uncertain, a new limited podcast series from Scientific American.

In this series, host Christie Aschwanden will help to demystify uncertainty. She's going to take away its scariness–or, rather, a cast of scientific dreamers that she talked to, will.

As you’ll see, uncertainty drives scientific discovery. Throughout scientific history, uncertainty has spurred our collective imagination and our need to know the things we don’t.

To be clear, uncertainty makes science very difficult. So in this mini-series we’ll both learn how scientists push through those difficulties; and how they also avoid the bias, logical fallacies, and blindspots that can lurk behind uncertainty.

She'll get them to share their own habits of mind and techniques for facing, and embracing, the unknown.

And even if you’re not a scientist, UNCERTAIN provides a practical way to think through what we don’t know in our lives—to face that uncertainty, and, hopefully, live better, more informed lives because of it.

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