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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New malaria vaccine: a step closer to eradication
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Spain's egg donation boom
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Inside the Oslo Accords part 3: the legacy
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Inside the Oslo Accords part 2: after the handshake
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Inside the Oslo Accords part 1: why Norway was in the Middle East
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Fear and Wonder: how species are responding to climate change
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Discovery: Thirty years after Jurassic Park hit movie screens, its impact on sci...
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The bacteria and microbes in your gut can affect your body and mental health, an...
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How fine dining in Europe and the US came to exclude immigrant cuisine
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Debunking migration myths: the real reasons people move, and why most migration...
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How protest movements use feminine images and social media to fight sexist ideol...
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Crowdsourcing new constitutions: how 2 Latin American countries increased partic...
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Beauty procedures from manicures to cosmetic surgery carry risk and the potentia...
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Governments and environmental groups are turning to international courts to comb...
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Improving how the IMF does business could help billions of people worldwide
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The solutions needed to address climate change already exist – Fear and Wonder p...
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Fast Fashion: Why garment workers’ lives are still in danger 10 years after Rana...
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Cloud seeding can increase rain and snow, and new techniques may make it a lot m...
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Dangerous and dirty – but cheap – used cars exported from the US and Europe are...
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Fear and Wonder podcast: how scientists attribute extreme weather events to clim...
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How recognising cultural practices in environmental regulation can help protect...
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Do glitzy awards like the Earthshot Prize actually help fight climate change?
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Too many digital distractions are eroding our ability to read deeply
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Back to the Moon
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Iraq 20 years on: researchers assess how US invasion shapes lives today
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Is time an illusion?
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Three AI experts on how access to ChatGPT-style tech is about to change our worl...
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Discovery: Biologists discovered a new species of tiny owl on the forested islan...
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After oil: the challenge and promise of getting the world off fossil fuels
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Loneliness is making us physically sick, but social prescribing can treat it
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Lack of diversity in clinical trials is leaving minority patients behind and har...
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Influencers are getting hired by smaller cities to attract new residents and gen...
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Beavers and oysters are helping restore lost ecosystems with their engineering s...
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Discovery: Secretly documenting starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto
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Social welfare services are being cut across the world – but providing them is a...
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Discovery: Reindeer's fascinating color-changing eyes
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James Webb Telescope reveals unexpectedly busy early universe
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Changing a nation's diet
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Discovery: how celebrity footballers can help reduce prejudice against minoritie...
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Young people’s shifting relationship with alcohol
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Treating mental illness with electricity
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Uncharted Brain 3: the role viruses may play in Alzheimer’s
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Uncharted Brain 2: the family trauma of dementia from sports injuries
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Uncharted Brain 1: a lifelong study unlocks clues to Alzheimer’s
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Africa's stolen objects: what happens after they return
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How to depolarize deeply divided societies
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Discovery: celibacy's surprising evolutionary advantages
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Radiation, pollution and urbanization are taking over natural selection
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When digital nomads come to town
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