The Conversation Weekly
A show for curious minds, from The Conversation. Each week, host Gemma Ware speaks to an academic expert about a topic in the news to understand how we got here.
Episodes (275)
Self-censorship and what drives it
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Cash for releasing sharks has a catch
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The 15% solution part 2: can a global tax make the world fairer?
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The 15% solution part 1: why global tax reform is long overdue
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The trafficked American guns fuelling Mexico’s cartel violence
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New theories of Alzheimer's taking the search for a cure in a different directio...
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After USAID: the future of foreign aid
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The 'Mo Salah effect' on reducing prejudice
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Three scientists on what it's like to have research funding cut by the Trump adm...
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Brazil’s anti-vax disinformation economy
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The Birkin bag game
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How AI could influence the evolution of humanity
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Ancient cities had hidden disease protections
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Shipping produces 3% of global emissions. How to get that down, quickly
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Prospects of lasting peace between Turkey and the Kurds
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The surreal story of how COVID took over a remote city in the Amazon
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The fossil that proved humanity's common origins in Africa
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Scam Factories Ep 3: Great Escapes
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Scam Factories Ep 2: Inside the operation
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Scam Factories Ep 1: No skills required
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Tariffs: the winners and losers
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How does decentralised social media work?
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Where support for Germany’s far-right AFD is growing and why
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How close are quantum computers to being really useful?
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A wildfire warning from California's Ice Age past
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Silicon Valley’s bet on a future of AI-enabled warfare
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How the world fell in love with plastic without thinking through the consequence...
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Brain implants, agentic AI and answers on dark matter: what to expect from scien...
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How Zimbabwe reached the point of abolishing the death penalty
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Why distrust in powerful politicians is part of a functioning democracy
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How do animals understand death?
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The story of one Amazon warehouse in the UK that pushed to unionise
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50 years since the discovery of ancient hominin fossil Lucy in Ethiopia, calls g...
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The controversy over cod fishing in Canada
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Gangsters who leave their gang behind for something new
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What is motivating Americans as they decide who to vote for
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Origins of South Australia’s mysterious pink sands revealed
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MicroRNA: Victor Ambros on the discovery that won him the Nobel prize
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Know Your Place: when did class stop predicting the way British people vote?
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What Israel and its neighbours want now
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HIV breakthrough in preventing infection via injection
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Himpathy: the psychology of why some people side with perpetrators of sexual mis...
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A lonely ancient plant needs a female partner – researchers are using drones and...
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Why mpox in Africa was ignored for too long and children are dying as a result
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The emotional toll of dating apps and why they're no longer about finding love
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Geoengineering part 2: the case against reflecting sunlight to cool the Earth
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Geoengineering part 1: the case to try modifying the climate
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A tooth that rewrites history? The discovery challenging what we knew about Nean...
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Borders and Belonging: is Japan turning into a migration state?
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Curious Kids: Why is my dog so cute?
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