The Conversation Weekly
A podcast by The Conversation - Thursdays
208 Episodes
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How we created fake smells to trick predators and save endangered birds
Published: 05/08/2021 -
Four-day week: has its moment arrived? + How Nairobi’s informal settlements got their names
Published: 29/07/2021 -
Olympics: the ultimate limits of human performance + lessons from 1920 Antwerp games
Published: 22/07/2021 -
Science of lab-grown and plant-based meat + Indonesia's child smoking problem
Published: 15/07/2021 -
Tough justice for international war crimes + why sarcasm is tricky for kids
Published: 08/07/2021 -
UFO report: from shrouded history to a data-driven future – podcast
Published: 01/07/2021 -
Fire, tsunami, pandemic: how to ensure societies learn lessons from disaster
Published: 24/06/2021 -
How Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro brought the military back to the centre of politics + archaeological garbage investigators
Published: 17/06/2021 -
Why so many Iranians plan not to vote this month + fireflies need the dark for love
Published: 10/06/2021 -
The race to make money from our oceans: who is winning? + Brazilian women avoid getting pregnant
Published: 03/06/2021 -
Lab-grown human embryos just got a new set of rules + Johannesburg's romcom revolution
Published: 27/05/2021 -
The racial hunger gap in American cities and what to do about it
Published: 20/05/2021 -
Why India's COVID-19 vaccine rollout is faltering
Published: 13/05/2021 -
Cuba's race for a coronavirus vaccine + making life's big decisions
Published: 06/05/2021 -
Why Scotland's May election is crucial to independence movement, and the UK + an on/off switch for neuroplasticity
Published: 29/04/2021 -
Why children keep getting kidnapped in Nigeria + the Kenyan women who join Al-Shabaab
Published: 22/04/2021 -
The colourful feathered world of what dinosaurs really looked like + Israel’s post-election foreign policy
Published: 15/04/2021 -
The zombie company problem and what it means for our economies
Published: 08/04/2021 -
A new force of nature? The inside story of fresh evidence from Cern that's exciting physicists
Published: 01/04/2021 -
The great remote work experiment – what happens next?
Published: 25/03/2021
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.
