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by The Guardian
300 EPISODES
Jan 2021
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‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI
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‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI
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From the archive: Battle of the botanic garden: the horticulture war roiling the Isle of Wight
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‘Navigating the unknown together’: me and my idiot AI boyfriend
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‘He liked that people were scared of him’: my year unpicking fantasy and reality with a veteran of Italy’s football ultras
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From the archive: Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online
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How did Mexico’s president become the world’s most popular leftwing leader?
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I launched Cuba’s first independent magazine. And that’s when my troubles began
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From the archive: Flour power: meet the bread heads baking a better loaf
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‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings
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Ping-pong sponges, ‘black smokers’ and floating somethings: the secrets of the deep sea
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From the archive: No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of cliff diving’
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‘Seriously the best boss ever’: inside the world of Jeffrey Epstein’s assistant
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‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza
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From the archive: Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK
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As a Ukrainian journalist, I’ve covered the US for 20 years. I find it increasingly shocking
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‘Should we leave them to die?’ The battle over how to save orangutans from the curse of palm oil
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From the archive: Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean
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Prisoner number 804: the plot to erase Imran Khan
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‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed
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From the archive: Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery
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After a hard-fought victory to legalise medical cannabis in the UK, why is it still so hard to access?
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Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype
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From the archive:‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus
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‘I had poked the bear right in the eye’: my fight to renounce my Russian citizenship
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On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa’s wildlife
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From the archive: Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times
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How to survive the information crisis: ‘We once talked about fake news – now reality itself feels fake’
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Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’
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‘Lawrence is karma’: the gangster who became an icon of Modi’s India
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From the archive: How western travel influencers got tangled up in Pakistan’s politics
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The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism?
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‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK
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From the archive: No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video game world
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Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother
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‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab
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From the archive: the impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees
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Inside China’s robotics revolution
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Endo dreams of sushi: a trip around Japan with one of the world’s greatest chefs
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From the archive: The high cost of living in a disabling world
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Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI
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35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped?
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From the archive: Foreign mothers, foreign tongues: ‘In another universe, she could have been my friend’
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How the US far right bought into the myth of white South Africa’s persecution
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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
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From the archive: Freedom without constraints: how the US squandered its cold war victory
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My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my worst days, it feels almost demonic’
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Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
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From the archive: the butcher’s shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)
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‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story?
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What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government
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