Recent Episodes
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The 15% solution part 2: can a global tax make the world fairer?
Jun 6, 2025 – 21:38 -
The 15% solution part 1: why global tax reform is long overdue
Jun 5, 2025 – 26:10 -
The trafficked American guns fuelling Mexico’s cartel violence
May 29, 2025 – 41:38 -
New theories of Alzheimer's taking the search for a cure in a different direction
May 22, 2025 – 33:00 -
After USAID: the future of foreign aid
May 15, 2025 – 36:15 -
The 'Mo Salah effect' on reducing prejudice
May 8, 2025 – 18:15 -
Three scientists on what it's like to have research funding cut by the Trump administration
May 1, 2025 – 40:21 -
Brazil’s anti-vax disinformation economy
Apr 24, 2025 – 28:25 -
The Birkin bag game
Apr 17, 2025 – 26:32 -
How AI could influence the evolution of humanity
Apr 9, 2025 – 28:09 -
Ancient cities had hidden disease protections
Apr 3, 2025 – 22:34 -
Shipping produces 3% of global emissions. How to get that down, quickly
Mar 27, 2025 – 23:15 -
Prospects of lasting peace between Turkey and the Kurds
Mar 20, 2025 – 27:13 -
The surreal story of how COVID took over a remote city in the Amazon
Mar 13, 2025 – 33:27 -
The fossil that proved humanity's common origins in Africa
Mar 6, 2025 – 25:58 -
Scam Factories Ep 3: Great Escapes
Feb 25, 2025 – 43:36 -
Scam Factories Ep 2: Inside the operation
Feb 24, 2025 – 38:13 -
Scam Factories Ep 1: No skills required
Feb 23, 2025 – 32:55 -
Tariffs: the winners and losers
Feb 20, 2025 – 30:37 -
How does decentralised social media work?
Feb 13, 2025 – 28:31 -
Where support for Germany’s far-right AFD is growing and why
Feb 6, 2025 – 38:03 -
How close are quantum computers to being really useful?
Jan 30, 2025 – 31:23 -
A wildfire warning from California's Ice Age past
Jan 23, 2025 – 25:11 -
Silicon Valley’s bet on a future of AI-enabled warfare
Jan 16, 2025 – 33:39 -
How the world fell in love with plastic without thinking through the consequences
Jan 9, 2025 – 30:26 -
Brain implants, agentic AI and answers on dark matter: what to expect from science in 2025
Jan 2, 2025 – 37:56 -
How Zimbabwe reached the point of abolishing the death penalty
Dec 19, 2024 – 26:06 -
Why distrust in powerful politicians is part of a functioning democracy
Dec 12, 2024 – 27:41 -
How do animals understand death?
Dec 5, 2024 – 26:43 -
The story of one Amazon warehouse in the UK that pushed to unionise
Nov 28, 2024 – 32:58 -
50 years since the discovery of ancient hominin fossil Lucy in Ethiopia, calls grow to decolonize paleoanthropology
Nov 21, 2024 – 27:39 -
The controversy over cod fishing in Canada
Nov 14, 2024 – 25:35 -
Gangsters who leave their gang behind for something new
Nov 7, 2024 – 31:50 -
What is motivating Americans as they decide who to vote for
Oct 31, 2024 – 32:27 -
Origins of South Australia’s mysterious pink sands revealed
Oct 24, 2024 – 21:48 -
MicroRNA: Victor Ambros on the discovery that won him the Nobel prize
Oct 17, 2024 – 24:34 -
Know Your Place: when did class stop predicting the way British people vote?
Oct 14, 2024 – 32:59 -
What Israel and its neighbours want now
Oct 10, 2024 – 36:12 -
HIV breakthrough in preventing infection via injection
Oct 3, 2024 – 27:13 -
Himpathy: the psychology of why some people side with perpetrators of sexual misconduct
Sep 26, 2024 – 23:41 -
A lonely ancient plant needs a female partner – researchers are using drones and AI to find it
Sep 19, 2024 – 20:27 -
Why mpox in Africa was ignored for too long and children are dying as a result
Sep 12, 2024 – 30:18 -
The emotional toll of dating apps and why they're no longer about finding love
Sep 5, 2024 – 29:19 -
Geoengineering part 2: the case against reflecting sunlight to cool the Earth
Aug 30, 2024 – 31:30 -
Geoengineering part 1: the case to try modifying the climate
Aug 29, 2024 – 28:32 -
A tooth that rewrites history? The discovery challenging what we knew about Neanderthals
Aug 22, 2024 – 27:08 -
Borders and Belonging: is Japan turning into a migration state?
Aug 15, 2024 – 40:38 -
Curious Kids: Why is my dog so cute?
Aug 8, 2024 – 20:05 -
Fightback mounts against trade deals fossil fuel investors can use to sue countries over climate action
Aug 1, 2024 – 28:02 -
New options for managing chronic pain after the opioid crisis
Jul 25, 2024 – 24:25
Recent Reviews
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BlabopteraPlease do not overdub music-like sounds or sound-effectsThe background music is distracting or worse. This is not the only podcast with this flaw. The implication for a presumed need for imposed sounds, such as for shifts in spoken content (paragraphs), is that neither the speaker nor the listener is gifted enough to have the experience plainly, naturally.
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PalunargarGreat to hear academic information in a very approachable mannerIt’s great to hear information from people from the academy that it’s easy to understand. I have learned a lot about different topics which are not published in the everyday news cycle.
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Mr.DWeissThe Conversation WeeklyThis is a great new addition to the podcast world. Relevant, well produced, informative, and interesting with knowledgeable guests and charismatic hosts. I highly recommend joining in on ”The Conversation Weekly.”
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_methodGreat ShowExcellent Podcast, great flow and mix of guests.
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RWxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxWonderful addition to my pod cast libraryLove having these interesting and insightful stories to listen to. Thank you Daniel and Gemma.
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