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146 Episodes

  1. The complicated journey toward a list of all life on Earth

    Published: 2/1/2024
  2. Descendants of Holocaust survivors explain why they are replicating Auschwitz tattoos on their own bodies

    Published: 1/25/2024
  3. Women lifestyle influencers are changing the face of the far right

    Published: 1/18/2024
  4. Interoception: the sixth sense we use to read hidden signals from our body

    Published: 1/11/2024
  5. Wolves return to Europe: what to do about them is a people problem

    Published: 1/4/2024
  6. Social media drains our brains and impacts our decision making

    Published: 12/21/2023
  7. Israel-Gaza war on campus part 2: a chilling effect on academic freedom

    Published: 12/18/2023
  8. Israel-Gaza war on campus part 1: American universities in the spotlight

    Published: 12/14/2023
  9. Kenya at 60: the patriotic choral music used to present one version of history

    Published: 12/11/2023
  10. Why unprecedented drought in the Amazon is so dangerous for the planet

    Published: 12/7/2023
  11. Genocide: the history of the term and what it means under international law

    Published: 11/30/2023
  12. Brandalism: the environmental activists using spoof adverts to critique rampant consumerism

    Published: 11/23/2023
  13. Antibiotic resistance: microbiologists turn to new technologies in the hunt for solutions

    Published: 11/16/2023
  14. After Morocco's earthquake, artisans in Marrakech’s old medina face an uncertain future

    Published: 11/9/2023
  15. The wildfires that led to mass extinction. A warning from California's Ice Age history

    Published: 11/2/2023
  16. When domicide razed my city: a view from Homs in Syria

    Published: 10/26/2023
  17. Don't Call Me Resilient: why are brown and Black people supporting the far right?

    Published: 10/24/2023
  18. Quantum dots: Louis Brus on the discovery that won him the Nobel prize

    Published: 10/19/2023
  19. Neanderthals: what their extinction could tell us about Homo Sapiens

    Published: 10/12/2023
  20. Why Australia is putting a First Nations Voice to Parliament to a referendum

    Published: 10/5/2023

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