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Episode | Date |
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The inside story of the CIA v Russia
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Dec 09, 2022 |
The 12 best ways to get cars out of cities
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Jun 22, 2022 |
How the future of shopping was shaped by its past
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Apr 01, 2022 |
The discovery of insulin: a story of monstrous egos and toxic rivalries
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Jan 14, 2022 |
Climate crisis: how science fiction can inspire humanity’s response
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Oct 08, 2021 |
Wireheading: the AI version of drug addiction, and why experts are worried about it
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Oct 01, 2021 |
Why there aren’t enough trees to offset society’s carbon emissions – and there never will be
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Aug 10, 2021 |
How a Soviet miner from the 1930s helped create today’s intense corporate workplace culture
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Jun 30, 2021 |
Why the concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
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May 10, 2021 |
Durex condoms: how their teenage immigrant inventor was forgotten by history
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Feb 12, 2021 |
Two doctors on the frontline of Liverpool's second wave
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Dec 14, 2020 |
Charles Dickens: the truth about his death and burial
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Jun 08, 2020 |
Lockdown lessons from the history of solitude
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May 20, 2020 |
What will the world be like after coronavirus? Four possible futures
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Apr 29, 2020 |
How to model a pandemic
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Apr 03, 2020 |
Ritalin: a biography
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Feb 21, 2020 |
How a Frenchman born 150 years ago inspired the extreme nationalism behind Brexit and Donald Trump
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Feb 04, 2020 |
Infertility through the ages, and how IVF helped change the way we think about it – podcast
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Jul 25, 2018 |
Decolonise science: time to end another imperial era – podcast
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Jun 27, 2018 |
How the humble potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism – podcast
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May 30, 2018 |
How transhumanism’s faithful follow it blindly into a future for the elite – podcast
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May 02, 2018 |
Antisemitism: how the origins of history’s oldest hatred still hold sway today – podcast
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Apr 19, 2018 |
The story of the Novichok nerve agents – podcast
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Mar 20, 2018 |
The heartbreaking story of the flying mathematicians of World War I – podcast
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Mar 08, 2018 |
Africa’s missing Ebola outbreaks – podcast
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Feb 21, 2018 |
Why life expectancy in Britain has fallen so much that a million years of life could disappear by 2058 – podcast
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Feb 07, 2018 |
The IQ test wars: why screening for intelligence is still so controversial – podcast
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Jan 24, 2018 |
How slimming became an obsession with women in post-war Britain – podcast
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Jan 10, 2018 |
Buggery, bribery and a committee: the story of how gay sex was decriminalised in Britain – podcast
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Dec 20, 2017 |
Twenty years on from Deep Blue vs Kasparov: how a chess match started the big data revolution – podcast
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Dec 06, 2017 |
A visit to Pyongyang: the Kim dynasty’s homage to Stalinism – podcast
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Nov 22, 2017 |