The Conversation Weekly
A podcast by The Conversation - Thursdays
208 Episodes
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Scam Factories Ep 2: Inside the operation
Published: 24/02/2025 -
Scam Factories Ep 1: No skills required
Published: 23/02/2025 -
Tariffs: the winners and losers
Published: 20/02/2025 -
How does decentralised social media work?
Published: 13/02/2025 -
Where support for Germany’s far-right AFD is growing and why
Published: 06/02/2025 -
How close are quantum computers to being really useful?
Published: 30/01/2025 -
A wildfire warning from California's Ice Age past
Published: 23/01/2025 -
Silicon Valley’s bet on a future of AI-enabled warfare
Published: 16/01/2025 -
How the world fell in love with plastic without thinking through the consequences
Published: 09/01/2025 -
Brain implants, agentic AI and answers on dark matter: what to expect from science in 2025
Published: 02/01/2025 -
How Zimbabwe reached the point of abolishing the death penalty
Published: 19/12/2024 -
Why distrust in powerful politicians is part of a functioning democracy
Published: 12/12/2024 -
How do animals understand death?
Published: 05/12/2024 -
The story of one Amazon warehouse in the UK that pushed to unionise
Published: 28/11/2024 -
50 years since the discovery of ancient hominin fossil Lucy in Ethiopia, calls grow to decolonize paleoanthropology
Published: 21/11/2024 -
The controversy over cod fishing in Canada
Published: 14/11/2024 -
Gangsters who leave their gang behind for something new
Published: 07/11/2024 -
What is motivating Americans as they decide who to vote for
Published: 31/10/2024 -
Origins of South Australia’s mysterious pink sands revealed
Published: 24/10/2024 -
MicroRNA: Victor Ambros on the discovery that won him the Nobel prize
Published: 17/10/2024
A show for curious minds. Join us each week as academic experts tell us about the fascinating discoveries they're making to understand the world, and the big questions they’re still trying to answer. A podcast from The Conversation, hosted by Gemma Ware.