Babbage from The Economist

A podcast by The Economist

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446 Episodes

  1. Babbage: The gene-therapy revolution

    Published: 11/10/2022
  2. Babbage: How snooping on sewage could save lives

    Published: 04/10/2022
  3. Babbage: How psychedelics could fix the brain

    Published: 27/09/2022
  4. Babbage: How science can save the world

    Published: 20/09/2022
  5. Babbage: Will Ethereum’s merge transform crypto?

    Published: 13/09/2022
  6. Babbage: From our archive—the James Webb Space Telescope

    Published: 06/09/2022
  7. Babbage: The open-source intelligence war

    Published: 30/08/2022
  8. Babbage: NASA’s newish rocket

    Published: 23/08/2022
  9. Babbage: Could artificial intelligence become sentient?

    Published: 16/08/2022
  10. Babbage: The child hepatitis mystery

    Published: 09/08/2022
  11. Babbage: How AI cracked biology’s biggest problem

    Published: 02/08/2022
  12. Babbage: Can technology personalise your diet?

    Published: 26/07/2022
  13. Babbage: How to keep secrets in the age of quantum computing

    Published: 19/07/2022
  14. Babbage: How did humans evolve?

    Published: 12/07/2022
  15. Babbage: How to unlock the secrets of the universe—beyond the Standard Model

    Published: 05/07/2022
  16. Babbage: How to go green amid an energy crisis

    Published: 28/06/2022
  17. Babbage: The short-sightedness epidemic

    Published: 21/06/2022
  18. Babbage: Is ketamine the next antidepressant?

    Published: 14/06/2022
  19. Babbage: Artificial intelligence enters its industrial age

    Published: 07/06/2022
  20. Babbage: Corals vs climate change

    Published: 31/05/2022

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Babbage is our weekly podcast on science and technology, named after Charles Babbage—a 19th-century polymath and grandfather of computing. Host Alok Jha talks to our correspondents about the innovations, discoveries and gadgetry shaping the world. Published every Wednesday.If you’re already a subscriber to The Economist, you’ll have full access to all our shows as part of your subscription.For more information about Economist Podcasts+, including how to get access, please visit our FAQs page here https://myaccount.economist.com/s/article/What-is-Economist-Podcasts

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