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In Depth, Out Loud

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