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Finding Math’s Beauty and Power with Drag Queen Kyne Santos - Science Quickly

Finding Math’s Beauty and Power with Drag Queen Kyne Santos - Science Quickly

Update: 2024-09-20
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Mathematics communicator and drag queen Kyne Santos will help you discover the beauty and power of math in this three-part Friday miniseries. Kyne takes us back to ancient Greece to illustrate the elegance of mathematics. We meet mathematician Tom Crawford, who combines fieldwork and modeling to predict the impacts of pollution, as well as philosopher and logician Mark Jago. 

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Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman and Kyne Santos. Our show is edited by Madison Goldberg with fact-checking by Shayna Posses, Emily Makowski and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith.

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Finding Math’s Beauty and Power with Drag Queen Kyne Santos - Science Quickly

Finding Math’s Beauty and Power with Drag Queen Kyne Santos - Science Quickly