The Conversation Weekly

By The Conversation

Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.


Category: News Commentary

Open in Apple Podcasts


Open RSS feed


Open Website


Rate for this podcast

Subscribers: 238
Reviews: 1
Episodes: 160

Dennis
 Oct 28, 2021
A very interesting podcast that takes a deep dive into a wide range of "in the news" topics. The hosts talk with genuine experts in the subject and engage with them in a lively fashion that leads to some great insights.

Description

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.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.


Episode Date
What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa part 2: Tasting the fruits of freedom
Apr 18, 2024
What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa part 1: Liberation, transition and reconciliation
Apr 11, 2024
Trailer: What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa?
Apr 10, 2024
The Anthropocene epoch that isn't
Apr 04, 2024
Don't Call Me Resilient: starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza
Apr 01, 2024
Invisible lines: how unseen boundaries shape the world around us
Mar 28, 2024
Climate quitting: the people leaving their fossil fuel jobs because of climate change
Mar 21, 2024
How conspiracy theories help to maintain Vladimir Putin’s grip on power in Russia
Mar 14, 2024
How North Korea is turning into a matriarchy
Mar 07, 2024
Intellectual humility: the rewards of being willing to change your mind
Feb 29, 2024
Israel-Gaza: how opinion polls used in Northern Ireland could pave a way to peace
Feb 22, 2024
As we dream, we can listen in on the waking world
Feb 15, 2024
Deepfakes and disinformation swirl ahead of Indonesian election
Feb 12, 2024
Environments can shape the differences between cultures
Feb 08, 2024
The complicated journey toward a list of all life on Earth
Feb 01, 2024
Descendants of Holocaust survivors explain why they are replicating Auschwitz tattoos on their own bodies
Jan 25, 2024
Women lifestyle influencers are changing the face of the far right
Jan 18, 2024
Interoception: the sixth sense we use to read hidden signals from our body
Jan 11, 2024
Wolves return to Europe: what to do about them is a people problem
Jan 04, 2024
Social media drains our brains and impacts our decision making
Dec 21, 2023
Israel-Gaza war on campus part 2: a chilling effect on academic freedom
Dec 18, 2023
Israel-Gaza war on campus part 1: American universities in the spotlight
Dec 14, 2023
Kenya at 60: the patriotic choral music used to present one version of history
Dec 11, 2023
Why unprecedented drought in the Amazon is so dangerous for the planet
Dec 07, 2023
Genocide: the history of the term and what it means under international law
Nov 30, 2023
Brandalism: the environmental activists using spoof adverts to critique rampant consumerism
Nov 23, 2023
Antibiotic resistance: microbiologists turn to new technologies in the hunt for solutions
Nov 16, 2023
After Morocco's earthquake, artisans in Marrakech’s old medina face an uncertain future
Nov 09, 2023
The wildfires that led to mass extinction. A warning from California's Ice Age history
Nov 02, 2023
When domicide razed my city: a view from Homs in Syria
Oct 26, 2023
Don't Call Me Resilient: why are brown and Black people supporting the far right?
Oct 24, 2023
Quantum dots: Louis Brus on the discovery that won him the Nobel prize
Oct 19, 2023
Neanderthals: what their extinction could tell us about Homo Sapiens
Oct 12, 2023
Why Australia is putting a First Nations Voice to Parliament to a referendum
Oct 05, 2023
New malaria vaccine: a step closer to eradication
Oct 03, 2023
Spain's egg donation boom
Sep 28, 2023
Inside the Oslo Accords part 3: the legacy
Sep 26, 2023
Inside the Oslo Accords part 2: after the handshake
Sep 19, 2023
Inside the Oslo Accords part 1: why Norway was in the Middle East
Sep 12, 2023
Fear and Wonder: how species are responding to climate change
Aug 31, 2023
Production break
Jul 27, 2023
Discovery: Thirty years after Jurassic Park hit movie screens, its impact on science and culture remains as strong as ever
Jul 20, 2023
The bacteria and microbes in your gut can affect your body and mental health, and engineering them promises new forms of treatment
Jul 13, 2023
How fine dining in Europe and the US came to exclude immigrant cuisine
Jul 06, 2023
Debunking migration myths: the real reasons people move, and why most migration happens in the Global South
Jun 29, 2023
How protest movements use feminine images and social media to fight sexist ideologies of authoritarian regimes
Jun 22, 2023
Crowdsourcing new constitutions: how 2 Latin American countries increased participation and empowered groups excluded from politics
Jun 15, 2023
Beauty procedures from manicures to cosmetic surgery carry risk and the potential reward of a better life
Jun 08, 2023
Governments and environmental groups are turning to international courts to combat the impacts of climate change
Jun 01, 2023
Improving how the IMF does business could help billions of people worldwide
May 25, 2023
The solutions needed to address climate change already exist – Fear and Wonder podcast
May 18, 2023
Fast Fashion: Why garment workers’ lives are still in danger 10 years after Rana Plaza
May 11, 2023
Cloud seeding can increase rain and snow, and new techniques may make it a lot more effective
May 04, 2023
Dangerous and dirty – but cheap – used cars exported from the US and Europe are filling roads in Africa
Apr 27, 2023
Fear and Wonder podcast: how scientists attribute extreme weather events to climate change
Apr 20, 2023
How recognising cultural practices in environmental regulation can help protect natural resources like sandalwood
Apr 13, 2023
Do glitzy awards like the Earthshot Prize actually help fight climate change?
Apr 06, 2023
Too many digital distractions are eroding our ability to read deeply
Mar 30, 2023
Back to the Moon
Mar 23, 2023
Iraq 20 years on: researchers assess how US invasion shapes lives today
Mar 16, 2023
Is time an illusion?
Mar 09, 2023
Three AI experts on how access to ChatGPT-style tech is about to change our world
Mar 02, 2023
Discovery: Biologists discovered a new species of tiny owl on the forested island of Príncipe, and it's already under threat
Feb 27, 2023
After oil: the challenge and promise of getting the world off fossil fuels
Feb 23, 2023
Loneliness is making us physically sick, but social prescribing can treat it
Feb 16, 2023
Lack of diversity in clinical trials is leaving minority patients behind and harming the future of medicine
Feb 09, 2023
Influencers are getting hired by smaller cities to attract new residents and generate revenue
Feb 02, 2023
Beavers and oysters are helping restore lost ecosystems with their engineering skills
Jan 26, 2023
Discovery: Secretly documenting starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto
Jan 23, 2023
Social welfare services are being cut across the world – but providing them is about more than just money
Jan 19, 2023
Discovery: Reindeer's fascinating color-changing eyes
Dec 21, 2022
James Webb Telescope reveals unexpectedly busy early universe
Dec 15, 2022
Changing a nation's diet
Dec 08, 2022
Discovery: how celebrity footballers can help reduce prejudice against minorities
Dec 05, 2022
Young people’s shifting relationship with alcohol
Dec 01, 2022
Treating mental illness with electricity
Nov 24, 2022
Uncharted Brain 3: the role viruses may play in Alzheimer’s
Nov 19, 2022
Uncharted Brain 2: the family trauma of dementia from sports injuries
Nov 18, 2022
Uncharted Brain 1: a lifelong study unlocks clues to Alzheimer’s
Nov 17, 2022
Africa's stolen objects: what happens after they return
Nov 10, 2022
How to depolarize deeply divided societies
Nov 03, 2022
Discovery: celibacy's surprising evolutionary advantages
Oct 31, 2022
Radiation, pollution and urbanization are taking over natural selection
Oct 27, 2022
When digital nomads come to town
Oct 20, 2022
Inside Brazil’s divisive gun debate
Oct 13, 2022
Secretive lawsuits by fossil fuel companies could hold back climate action
Oct 06, 2022
Psychedelic research: balancing trippyness with a new scientific rigor
Sep 29, 2022
Thwaites Glacier: the melting, Antarctic monster of sea level rise
Sep 22, 2022
Keeping buildings cool as it gets hotter
Sep 15, 2022
The cold war double agent abandoned by the spy agencies he risked his life for
Jul 27, 2022
What did dinosaurs actually look like?
Jun 16, 2022
A brief update
Jun 01, 2022
India and Pakistan heatwave is a sign of worse to come
May 26, 2022
Australian election: how the country’s political landscape is shifting
May 18, 2022
What is adult ADHD and how to treat it
May 12, 2022
Neutrality: why countries choose not to join a war – and what responsibilities come with it
May 05, 2022
Ukraine invasion threatens international collaboration in space – is current space law equipped to handle a new era of shifting power structures?
Apr 28, 2022
How your culture informs your emotional reaction to music
Apr 21, 2022
Why Indonesia plans to relocate its capital from Jakarta to a new forest city on the island of Borneo
Apr 14, 2022
Could lead makeup really have killed an 18th century socialite? A scientist investigated
Apr 07, 2022
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy – 50 years of ongoing protest for Indigenous sovereignty in Australia
Mar 31, 2022
How has Emmanuel Macron changed France?
Mar 24, 2022
The history and evolution of Ukrainian national identity
Mar 17, 2022
The trauma of life in limbo for refugees and asylum seekers in immigration detention
Mar 10, 2022
Climate change: IPCC scientists on the narrowing window of opportunity to adapt
Mar 03, 2022
Nuclear fusion record broken – what will it take to start generating electricity?
Feb 24, 2022
Sahel security: what a wave of military coups means for the fight against jihadi groups in West Africa
Feb 17, 2022
If Russia invades Ukraine, what could happen to natural gas supplies to Europe?
Feb 10, 2022
The inside story of discovering omicron: South African scientists on the lessons their experience offers the rest of the world
Feb 03, 2022
China's plans for Xinjiang, and what it means for the region's persecuted Uyghurs
Jan 27, 2022
The science of sugar – why we're hardwired to love it and what eating too much does to your brain
Jan 20, 2022
Crypto countries: Nigeria and El Salvador's opposing journeys into digital currencies
Jan 13, 2022
2022 science preview: mRNA vaccines, asteroid missions and collaborative robots
Jan 05, 2022
How the arts can help us come back together again
Dec 16, 2021
Peering into the history of the universe: astronomers explain why the James Webb Space Telescope is such a big deal
Dec 09, 2021
Planet pharma: what the industry got out of COVID
Dec 02, 2021
How abortion access is changing around the world
Nov 25, 2021
Glasgow Climate Pact: what happened at COP26 and what it means for the world
Nov 18, 2021
Ten years to 1.5°C: how climate anxiety is affecting young people around the world
Nov 11, 2021
Tigray: the devastating toll of Ethiopia's vicious year of war
Nov 04, 2021
Degrowth: why some economists think abandoning growth is the only way to save the planet
Oct 28, 2021
Taiwan: what is China's long-term strategy?
Oct 21, 2021
Explaining the 2021 Nobel Prizes: how touch works, a better way to make medicine and the fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah
Oct 14, 2021
New clues to consciousness + AI helps finish Beethoven's 10th symphony
Oct 07, 2021
Germany election winners, losers, and how the Greens emerged as kingmakers + the benefits of saunas
Sep 30, 2021
Have climate change predictions matched reality?
Sep 23, 2021
Why is Justin Trudeau more popular abroad than in Canada? + Clues on why mosquitoes bite some of us more than others
Sep 16, 2021
Haiti's history of cascading crises and political fragility
Sep 09, 2021
Back to school with COVID: how to keep children safe
Sep 02, 2021
The origins of the Taliban
Aug 26, 2021
The biological switch that could turn neuroplasticity on and off in the brain
Aug 19, 2021
Al-Shabaab: why women join the Islamist militant group
Aug 12, 2021
How we created fake smells to trick predators and save endangered birds
Aug 05, 2021
Four-day week: has its moment arrived? + How Nairobi’s informal settlements got their names
Jul 29, 2021
Olympics: the ultimate limits of human performance + lessons from 1920 Antwerp games
Jul 22, 2021
Science of lab-grown and plant-based meat + Indonesia's child smoking problem
Jul 15, 2021
Tough justice for international war crimes + why sarcasm is tricky for kids
Jul 08, 2021
UFO report: from shrouded history to a data-driven future – podcast
Jul 01, 2021
Fire, tsunami, pandemic: how to ensure societies learn lessons from disaster
Jun 24, 2021
How Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro brought the military back to the centre of politics + archaeological garbage investigators
Jun 17, 2021
Why so many Iranians plan not to vote this month + fireflies need the dark for love
Jun 10, 2021
The race to make money from our oceans: who is winning? + Brazilian women avoid getting pregnant
Jun 03, 2021
Lab-grown human embryos just got a new set of rules + Johannesburg's romcom revolution
May 27, 2021
The racial hunger gap in American cities and what to do about it
May 20, 2021
Why India's COVID-19 vaccine rollout is faltering
May 13, 2021
Cuba's race for a coronavirus vaccine + making life's big decisions
May 06, 2021
Why Scotland's May election is crucial to independence movement, and the UK + an on/off switch for neuroplasticity
Apr 29, 2021
Why children keep getting kidnapped in Nigeria + the Kenyan women who join Al-Shabaab
Apr 22, 2021
The colourful feathered world of what dinosaurs really looked like + Israel’s post-election foreign policy
Apr 15, 2021
The zombie company problem and what it means for our economies
Apr 08, 2021
A new force of nature? The inside story of fresh evidence from Cern that's exciting physicists
Apr 01, 2021
The great remote work experiment – what happens next?
Mar 25, 2021
COVID-19 caused the biggest drop in carbon emissions ever – how do we make it last?
Mar 18, 2021
COVID-19: where does the WHO go from here?
Mar 11, 2021
How climate change is flooding the Arctic Ocean with light
Mar 04, 2021
Leaving Hong Kong after China's clampdown: where people are going and why
Feb 25, 2021
Coronavirus vaccines: what’s getting in the way of the global rollout
Feb 18, 2021
Myanmar's collective fury
Feb 11, 2021
Why it's a big month for Mars
Feb 04, 2021
Trailer: The Conversation Weekly
Jan 25, 2021