The Conversation Weekly
A podcast by The Conversation - Thursdays
185 Episodes
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Planet pharma: what the industry got out of COVID
Published: 02/12/2021 -
How abortion access is changing around the world
Published: 25/11/2021 -
Glasgow Climate Pact: what happened at COP26 and what it means for the world
Published: 18/11/2021 -
Ten years to 1.5°C: how climate anxiety is affecting young people around the world
Published: 11/11/2021 -
Tigray: the devastating toll of Ethiopia's vicious year of war
Published: 04/11/2021 -
Degrowth: why some economists think abandoning growth is the only way to save the planet
Published: 28/10/2021 -
Taiwan: what is China's long-term strategy?
Published: 21/10/2021 -
Explaining the 2021 Nobel Prizes: how touch works, a better way to make medicine and the fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah
Published: 14/10/2021 -
New clues to consciousness + AI helps finish Beethoven's 10th symphony
Published: 07/10/2021 -
Germany election winners, losers, and how the Greens emerged as kingmakers + the benefits of saunas
Published: 30/09/2021 -
Have climate change predictions matched reality?
Published: 23/09/2021 -
Why is Justin Trudeau more popular abroad than in Canada? + Clues on why mosquitoes bite some of us more than others
Published: 16/09/2021 -
Haiti's history of cascading crises and political fragility
Published: 09/09/2021 -
Back to school with COVID: how to keep children safe
Published: 02/09/2021 -
The origins of the Taliban
Published: 26/08/2021 -
The biological switch that could turn neuroplasticity on and off in the brain
Published: 19/08/2021 -
Al-Shabaab: why women join the Islamist militant group
Published: 12/08/2021 -
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
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