The Conversation Weekly
A show for curious minds, from The Conversation. Each week, host Gemma Ware speaks to an academic expert about a topic in the news to understand how we got here.
Episodes (275)
China’s long game on Trump’s tariffs
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Trump v Leo: the war of words over a just war
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Israel’s history shapes how it wages war
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How former insider Péter Magyar ousted Hungary’s Viktor Orbán
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The pseudoscientific scale looksmaxxers use to rate each other
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The Making of One Nation: the unlikely rise of Australia’s Pauline Hanson
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Artemis II: NASA’s long road back to the Moon
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How the US cloned Iran's drones
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Mystery covid methane spike solved
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Was the Gulf blindsided on Iran?
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South Korea's birth rate is rising, but the population is still shrinking
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The 'national humiliation' behind Russia's war on Ukraine
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How Minneapolis is organising against ICE
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The Super Bowl that kickstarted prop betting in America
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How Iran shut down the internet
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A lost US military base under Greenland's ice sheet
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A new treaty to protect our oceans
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The Making of an Autocrat: co-opt the military
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The Making of an Autocrat: suppress the people
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The Making of an Autocrat: beat the courts
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The Making of an Autocrat: manufacture a crisis
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The Making of an Autocrat: recruit an architect
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The Making of an Autocrat: hijack a party
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Coming soon: The Making of an Autocrat
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Venezuela's plan to resist a US invasion
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How Timor-Leste is fighting back against Asia’s scamming gangs
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Why the US is fixated on South Africa’s white Afrikaners
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The 40 scientists who decide which flu shot you'll get
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How China cleaned up its air pollution
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How early climate models got global warming right
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How organised crime infiltrated Brazil
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Ghosts vs demons: a 16th century Halloween showdown
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Bitcoin buys: the risks and rewards of companies buying crypto
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The hidden sources of forever chemicals
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Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi on his immune system breakthrough
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The diagnosis dimension to the rise in autism
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Pressuring the Fed doesn't end well
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Palestinian statehood: the route to recognition
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The sovereign citizen movement's spread around the world
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How China is weaponising the history of WWII
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The secret ingredients for creative flow
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LSE IQ: is AI destroying the planet?
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Teaching animals irrelevant skills can reveal the secrets of cognition
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How the world got hooked on plastic
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How Rupert Murdoch helped to build brand Trump
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Israel’s secret deal to build a nuclear arsenal
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What will batteries of the future be made of?
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An enduring anti-fascist legacy in Italy
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How Europe dropped the ball on its own defence
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Autism, RFK Jr and avoiding disability surveillance
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