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Latest Podcast from Scientific  American       We waited until a fantastic podcast was out today that we would love to feature. Here are our top three favorites from this month: Listen Now Top Trending Podcast Episodes Cleo, The Mysterious Math Menace: In 2013, a secret user named "Cleo" took an online math forum by storm, popping in quickly to solve extremely complex integration problems — all without showing any of her work. Then, she would disappear into the ether. Cleo called to mind Srinivasa Ramanujan — a famed Indian mathematician who had almost no formal training but who made substantial contributions to the world of mathematics. So, who was Cleo? To this day, people are still trying to figure out the story behind the legend. Listen Now   The Science of Swing: What That Jazz Beat Tells Us About Hearing And The Brain Have you ever wondered what a 35-millisecond moment in swing jazz tell us about our sense of hearing, our capacity for music, and even human consciousness? Scientists have made a breakthrough discovery in what makes swing jazz swing. It's a phenomenon that's so fleeting, even professional musicians can't point to it—but we can feel it. Listen Now   Should we be worried about Emergent AI? AI is learning fast. Really fast. So fast — that it's figuring out how to do things that no one taught it, like figure out how to play the board game Othello. How's this possible? Contributing editor George Musser delves into the world of LLMs — or Large Language Models. What are they, how do they do what they do, and what ghosts lie in the machine? Listen Now

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