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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Inside Brazil’s divisive gun debate
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Secretive lawsuits by fossil fuel companies could hold back climate action
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Psychedelic research: balancing trippyness with a new scientific rigor
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Thwaites Glacier: the melting, Antarctic monster of sea level rise
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Keeping buildings cool as it gets hotter
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The cold war double agent abandoned by the spy agencies he risked his life for
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What did dinosaurs actually look like?
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A brief update
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India and Pakistan heatwave is a sign of worse to come
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Australian election: how the country’s political landscape is shifting
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What is adult ADHD and how to treat it
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Neutrality: why countries choose not to join a war – and what responsibilities c...
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Ukraine invasion threatens international collaboration in space – is current spa...
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How your culture informs your emotional reaction to music
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Why Indonesia plans to relocate its capital from Jakarta to a new forest city on...
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Could lead makeup really have killed an 18th century socialite? A scientist inve...
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The Aboriginal Tent Embassy – 50 years of ongoing protest for Indigenous soverei...
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How has Emmanuel Macron changed France?
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The history and evolution of Ukrainian national identity
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The trauma of life in limbo for refugees and asylum seekers in immigration deten...
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Climate change: IPCC scientists on the narrowing window of opportunity to adapt
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Nuclear fusion record broken – what will it take to start generating electricity...
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Sahel security: what a wave of military coups means for the fight against jihadi...
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If Russia invades Ukraine, what could happen to natural gas supplies to Europe?
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The inside story of discovering omicron: South African scientists on the lessons...
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China's plans for Xinjiang, and what it means for the region's persecuted Uyghur...
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The science of sugar – why we're hardwired to love it and what eating too much d...
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Crypto countries: Nigeria and El Salvador's opposing journeys into digital curre...
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2022 science preview: mRNA vaccines, asteroid missions and collaborative robots
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How the arts can help us come back together again
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Peering into the history of the universe: astronomers explain why the James Webb...
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Planet pharma: what the industry got out of COVID
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How abortion access is changing around the world
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Glasgow Climate Pact: what happened at COP26 and what it means for the world
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Ten years to 1.5°C: how climate anxiety is affecting young people around the wor...
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Tigray: the devastating toll of Ethiopia's vicious year of war
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Degrowth: why some economists think abandoning growth is the only way to save th...
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Taiwan: what is China's long-term strategy?
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Explaining the 2021 Nobel Prizes: how touch works, a better way to make medicine...
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New clues to consciousness + AI helps finish Beethoven's 10th symphony
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Germany election winners, losers, and how the Greens emerged as kingmakers + the...
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Have climate change predictions matched reality?
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Why is Justin Trudeau more popular abroad than in Canada? + Clues on why mosquit...
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Haiti's history of cascading crises and political fragility
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Back to school with COVID: how to keep children safe
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The origins of the Taliban
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The biological switch that could turn neuroplasticity on and off in the brain
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Al-Shabaab: why women join the Islamist militant group
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How we created fake smells to trick predators and save endangered birds
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Four-day week: has its moment arrived? + How Nairobi’s informal settlements got...
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