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.
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Fightback mounts against trade deals fossil fuel investors can use to sue countr...
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New options for managing chronic pain after the opioid crisis
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Can shared experiences bring people closer together?
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What next for the French and British right?
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Underwater soundscapes of seagrass meadows revealed in new recordings
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Don't Call Me Resilient: as war rages in Sudan, a new type of community resistan...
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3D printed guns: unmasking the designer of the FGC-9
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The Brexit roots of the UK's Rwanda asylum plan – and why other EU leaders might...
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Scientists can't agree on how fast the universe is expanding – why this matters...
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Creative flow: what's going on inside our brains when everything just clicks
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Breakthroughs and failures on the road to a universal snake bite antivenom
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Moments of hope: how Indians keep pushing back against the hollowing out of demo...
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Assisted dying: Canada grapples with plans to introduce euthanasia for mental il...
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How to spend the billions needed for climate adaptation – and make sure frontlin...
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Data poisoning: how artists are trying to sabotage generative AI
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What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa part 3: Dream deferred
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What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa part 2: Tasting the fruits of fre...
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What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa part 1: Liberation, transition an...
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Trailer: What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa?
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The Anthropocene epoch that isn't
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Don't Call Me Resilient: starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza
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Invisible lines: how unseen boundaries shape the world around us
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Climate quitting: the people leaving their fossil fuel jobs because of climate c...
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How conspiracy theories help to maintain Vladimir Putin’s grip on power in Russi...
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How North Korea is turning into a matriarchy
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Intellectual humility: the rewards of being willing to change your mind
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Israel-Gaza: how opinion polls used in Northern Ireland could pave a way to peac...
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As we dream, we can listen in on the waking world
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Deepfakes and disinformation swirl ahead of Indonesian election
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Environments can shape the differences between cultures
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The complicated journey toward a list of all life on Earth
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Descendants of Holocaust survivors explain why they are replicating Auschwitz ta...
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Women lifestyle influencers are changing the face of the far right
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Interoception: the sixth sense we use to read hidden signals from our body
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Wolves return to Europe: what to do about them is a people problem
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Social media drains our brains and impacts our decision making
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Israel-Gaza war on campus part 2: a chilling effect on academic freedom
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Israel-Gaza war on campus part 1: American universities in the spotlight
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Kenya at 60: the patriotic choral music used to present one version of history
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Why unprecedented drought in the Amazon is so dangerous for the planet
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Genocide: the history of the term and what it means under international law
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Brandalism: the environmental activists using spoof adverts to critique rampant...
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Antibiotic resistance: microbiologists turn to new technologies in the hunt for...
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After Morocco's earthquake, artisans in Marrakech’s old medina face an uncertain...
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The wildfires that led to mass extinction. A warning from California's Ice Age h...
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When domicide razed my city: a view from Homs in Syria
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Don't Call Me Resilient: why are brown and Black people supporting the far right...
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Quantum dots: Louis Brus on the discovery that won him the Nobel prize
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Neanderthals: what their extinction could tell us about Homo Sapiens
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Why Australia is putting a First Nations Voice to Parliament to a referendum
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