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.
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Episodes (295)
How do animals understand death?
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The story of one Amazon warehouse in the UK that pushed to unionise
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50 years since the discovery of ancient hominin fossil Lucy in Ethiopia, calls g...
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The controversy over cod fishing in Canada
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Gangsters who leave their gang behind for something new
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What is motivating Americans as they decide who to vote for
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Origins of South Australia’s mysterious pink sands revealed
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MicroRNA: Victor Ambros on the discovery that won him the Nobel prize
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Know Your Place: when did class stop predicting the way British people vote?
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What Israel and its neighbours want now
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HIV breakthrough in preventing infection via injection
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Himpathy: the psychology of why some people side with perpetrators of sexual mis...
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A lonely ancient plant needs a female partner – researchers are using drones and...
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Why mpox in Africa was ignored for too long and children are dying as a result
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The emotional toll of dating apps and why they're no longer about finding love
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Geoengineering part 2: the case against reflecting sunlight to cool the Earth
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Geoengineering part 1: the case to try modifying the climate
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A tooth that rewrites history? The discovery challenging what we knew about Nean...
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Borders and Belonging: is Japan turning into a migration state?
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Curious Kids: Why is my dog so cute?
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Fightback mounts against trade deals fossil fuel investors can use to sue countr...
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New options for managing chronic pain after the opioid crisis
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Can shared experiences bring people closer together?
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What next for the French and British right?
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Underwater soundscapes of seagrass meadows revealed in new recordings
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Don't Call Me Resilient: as war rages in Sudan, a new type of community resistan...
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3D printed guns: unmasking the designer of the FGC-9
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The Brexit roots of the UK's Rwanda asylum plan – and why other EU leaders might...
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Scientists can't agree on how fast the universe is expanding – why this matters...
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Creative flow: what's going on inside our brains when everything just clicks
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Breakthroughs and failures on the road to a universal snake bite antivenom
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Moments of hope: how Indians keep pushing back against the hollowing out of demo...
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Assisted dying: Canada grapples with plans to introduce euthanasia for mental il...
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How to spend the billions needed for climate adaptation – and make sure frontlin...
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Data poisoning: how artists are trying to sabotage generative AI
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What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa part 3: Dream deferred
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What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa part 2: Tasting the fruits of fre...
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What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa part 1: Liberation, transition an...
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Trailer: What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa?
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The Anthropocene epoch that isn't
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Don't Call Me Resilient: starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza
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Invisible lines: how unseen boundaries shape the world around us
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Climate quitting: the people leaving their fossil fuel jobs because of climate c...
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How conspiracy theories help to maintain Vladimir Putin’s grip on power in Russi...
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How North Korea is turning into a matriarchy
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Intellectual humility: the rewards of being willing to change your mind
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Israel-Gaza: how opinion polls used in Northern Ireland could pave a way to peac...
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As we dream, we can listen in on the waking world
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Deepfakes and disinformation swirl ahead of Indonesian election
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Environments can shape the differences between cultures
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