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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Olympics: the ultimate limits of human performance + lessons from 1920 Antwerp g...
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Science of lab-grown and plant-based meat + Indonesia's child smoking problem
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Tough justice for international war crimes + why sarcasm is tricky for kids
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UFO report: from shrouded history to a data-driven future – podcast
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Fire, tsunami, pandemic: how to ensure societies learn lessons from disaster
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How Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro brought the military back to the centre of politics...
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Why so many Iranians plan not to vote this month + fireflies need the dark for l...
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The race to make money from our oceans: who is winning? + Brazilian women avoid...
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Lab-grown human embryos just got a new set of rules + Johannesburg's romcom revo...
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The racial hunger gap in American cities and what to do about it
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Why India's COVID-19 vaccine rollout is faltering
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Cuba's race for a coronavirus vaccine + making life's big decisions
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Why Scotland's May election is crucial to independence movement, and the UK + an...
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Why children keep getting kidnapped in Nigeria + the Kenyan women who join Al-Sh...
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The colourful feathered world of what dinosaurs really looked like + Israel’s po...
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The zombie company problem and what it means for our economies
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A new force of nature? The inside story of fresh evidence from Cern that's excit...
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The great remote work experiment – what happens next?
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COVID-19 caused the biggest drop in carbon emissions ever – how do we make it la...
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COVID-19: where does the WHO go from here?
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How climate change is flooding the Arctic Ocean with light
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Leaving Hong Kong after China's clampdown: where people are going and why
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Coronavirus vaccines: what’s getting in the way of the global rollout
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Myanmar's collective fury
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Why it's a big month for Mars
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