Bedste Tom Chivers-podcasts (2024)

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Everything Is Predictable - Tom Chivers | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations 20:31

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Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World is a book about an 18th century mathematical rule for working out probability, which shapes many aspects of our modern world. Written by science journalist Tom Chivers, the book has made it onto the shortlist for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize. In the lead up …

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Weekly: Climate overshoot - when we go past 1.5 degrees there is no going back 21:01

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Episode 271 If we overshoot 1.5 degrees of global warming, there is no going back. The hope has long been that if - and when - we blow past our climate goals, we can later reverse the damage. But there’s no guarantee we can bring temperatures back down, according to a paper published in Nature this week. The report suggests it would take decades to…

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102: Soledad Gonzalo Cogno: Sloooow oscillations in entorhinal cortex, mentoring, and the physics approach to neuroscience 1:37:51

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Soledad Gonzalo Cogno is a group leader at the Kavli Institute for Science Neuroscience in Trondheim. We talk about how she went from studying physics in Argentina to working on the brain in Norway, the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to neuroscience, why researchers should give their research animals a nice life, mentorship, and discuss…

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Ep 29: Lost in the Garden: Folk Horror, Hauntology & Misremembered Nostalgia ft. Adam S. Leslie 1:23:10

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‘Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one questioned or even thought about too hard. Like folklore. It was just something everyone knew, a rule to be followed. Don’t go to Almanby’. In today’s episode I chat to author and screenwriter Adam S. Leslie about his debut novel, Lost in the Garden which …

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Gareth Gore | Unveiling The Conspiracy Of Opus Dei 1:44:34

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Opus Dei are a predatory catholic cult that started in Spain in the early 20th century and grew and grew over the years into a global organisation that set out with the singular vision to re-christianise the entire world. Gareth Gore stumbled into this story when researching and writing the collapse of one of Spains largest financial institutions, …

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Episode 52: Very old people and "Blue Zones"

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What’s the secret of living to 100? Well, it might be living in a “Blue Zone”: one of the handful of places around the world where there are apparently loads of centenarians. Except, as has been argued recently, Blue Zones might be a load of nonsense. In this epside of The Studies Show, relative spring chickens Tom and Stuart look at some of the re…

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Jon Michaels & David Noll - Democracy Under Siege: The Rise of Legalized Extremism in the US | STM Podcast #222 1:05:07

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On episode 222, we welcome Jon Michaels and David Noll to discuss the alliance between vigilante groups and governments in the US, the four types of vigilantism and how they affect our lives, how vigilante groups utilize state laws to limit freedom of movement, the roots of vigilantism in the slavery era, the argument of individual liberty as a vei…

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The Last of Its Kind - Gísli Pálsson | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations 15:23

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The great auk was a flightless bird which was last spotted in Iceland in 1844. It is the subject of the book The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction. Written by Gísli Pálsson, an Icelandic anthropologist and academic, the book offers vital insights into the extinction of the species through accounts from t…

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Weekly: Hope for the world’s coral; the first drone vs drone war 23:32

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Episode 270 There may be hope for the survival of coral reefs, a vital part of the global underwater ecosystem that is under massive threat from climate change. At 1.5 C degrees of warming we’re at risk of losing 70-90 per cent of coral - and more than 99 per cent is estimated to die off at 2 degrees. But new research suggests corals may be more ad…

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101. Julie Old: Wombats, saving endangered species, and the difficulties of studying wild animals 1:14:18

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Julie Old is as Associate Professor at Western Sydney University. We talk about her experiences and research with wombats, various aspects of wombat behavior, conservation efforts, challenges such as sarcoptic mange and roadkill, the Northern hairy-nosed wombat's critically endangered status and efforts to translocate them safely, and much more. BJ…

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Eve - Cat Bohannon | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations 14:21

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Women have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to have more sensitive noses, sharper hearing at high frequencies, and longer life expectancy than men. But why have women's bodies been so under-researched? It’s one of the many questions Cat Bohannon raises in her book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution. Short…

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Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations 17:12

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Why We Die is a book about ageing and death, written by Nobel Prize-winning biologist and former president of the Royal Society, Venki Ramakrishnan. Venki is on the shortlist for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize. In the lead up to the winner’s announcement, New Scientist books editor Alison Flood meets all six of the shortlisted authors…

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Rory Sutherland | Talebian Thinking Applied To Marketing 57:12

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The Curious Worldview Podcast Spotify The Curious Worldview Podcast Apple ✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... I am stoked to welcome back one of the most out there and interesting writers, thinkers and speakers, Rory Sutherland. He founded the behavioural science team at the Ogilvy group, he is one of Eu…

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Johan Norberg | Does Capitalism Fail To Price In Negative Externality? Author Of 'The Capitalist Manifesto' 1:34:18

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Youtube - https://youtu.be/iCNiZfMASNs Subscribe To The Curious Worldview Newsletter ---- Johan Norberg is a prolific author and academic, he’s one of the most notable members of the Cato Institute and as well someone who has recently bronzed in the blinding spotlight of both Javier Milei and Elon Musk. Johan is a staunch defender of globalisation …

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Episode 51: Antimicrobial resistance

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There are an awful lot of things to worry about in the world. Are “superbugs” among them? That is, how worried should we be that bacteria will develop resistance to our best antibiotics, meaning infections will run rampant and even basic surgery is out of the question? In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart wash their hands and then di…

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A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations 14:10

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As the heated race to settle humans on Mars continues, is it really a good idea? And what are the biggest challenges to making interplanetary life a reality? These are the questions Kelly and Zach Weinersmith explore in their book, A City on Mars. The pair have been shortlisted for the prestigious Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, and ahead…

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Your Face Belongs To Us - Kashmir Hill | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations 13:03

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How often do you upload a picture of yourself online? And what happens to that photo long after it's been posted? The truth may shock you, as we find out in this episode. In Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy, New York Times journalist Kashmir Hill investigates the world of facial recognition technolo…

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Randy Fertel - The Power and Peril of Improvisation in Politics and Culture | STM Podcast #221 1:09:30

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On episode 221, we welcome Randy Fertel to discuss the rich history of improv, hot cognition and cold cognition, the importance of a liberal arts education for creativity, Trump’s charisma and use of off the cuff comments to charm his audience, the neuroscience of creativity, Saturday Night Live and how those comedians embodied the dark side of imp…

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Weekly: The case for Arctic geoengineering; world’s oldest cheese 25:05

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Episode 269 Could we re-freeze the Arctic… and should we? The Arctic is losing ice at an alarming rate and it’s too late to save it by cutting emissions alone. Geoengineering may be our only hope. A company called Real Ice has successfully tested a plan to artificially keep the region cold - but what are the consequences and will it work on the sca…

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Episode 50: Toxoplasma

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Been feeling a little strange lately? A bit impulsive, maybe? Feeling a sudden urge to get a pet cat? Sorry to say it, but maybe you’re infected with a scary mind control parasite: specifically, the paraside Toxoplasma gondii. Or… maybe not. It turns out that, despite popular belief, the supposed behavioural effects of T. gondii are supported by ve…

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Jason Stanley - How Fascists Rewrite History to Control the Future | STM Podcast #220 1:04:52

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On episode 220, we welcome Jason Stanley to discuss the rising tide of fascism among Republicans, the pivotal role education plays in cultivating it, the divided US and how winning came to override all other values, the authoritarian war on intellectualism, fascist historical revisionism and why the history written by fascists is based on fear and …

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Weekly: Does loneliness really cause ill health?; A time-travelling photon; The supermassive mystery of early black holes 23:19

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Episode 268 Research has long linked loneliness to surprising health conditions, including diabetes and some cancers. The assumption has been that loneliness in some way causes these issues, perhaps through increased stress or inflammation. But in a study of tens of thousands of people’s biomedical data, that link has gotten more complicated. Where…

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Paid-only Episode 12: Jonathan Haidt vs. social media

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A while back, The Studies Show covered the question of whether smartphones and social media cause mental health problems. Amazingly, that podcast didn’t settle the issue, and the debate has continued—and continued rather acrimoniously. Psychologists—most notably Jonathan Haidt—are currently laying into each other, analysing, re-analysing, and meta-…

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Weekly: Thorin and the lost Neanderthals; Fish that use mirrors; SpaceX’s spacewalk 27:23

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Episode 267 The remains of an ancient Neanderthal man discovered in France may be one of the last members of a lost line. Researchers analysing the DNA of the fossil nicknamed “Thorin” (named after the dwarven king in the Hobbit) made the surprising discovery that he’s possibly one of the last of his line. He may have been part of a group that live…

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John Christensen | How Offshore Finance Corrodes Culture, Politics & A Globalised World 2:29:32

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Subscribe To The Curious Worldview Newsletter Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Offshore Finance Starter Pack 'Curious Worldview Podcast' Episodes Follow me on Instagram – @ryanfhogg ---- Just how cancerous and pernicious to culture, politics and a globalised world is offshore finance and financial opacity? Few if any people in the world …

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Episode 49: Scientific publishing

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It’s in a peer-reviewed paper, so it must be true. Right? Alas, you can only really hold this belief if you don’t know about the peer-review system, and scientific publishing more generally. That’s why, in this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart break down the traditional scientific publishing process, discuss how it leads science astray, …

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CultureLab: Amorina Kingdon on the grunting, growling and singing world underwater 46:42

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Have you ever heard a haddock knock? What about a cusk eel’s chatter? Sound travels four-and-a-half times faster through water than air and can be heard across huge distances. It’s how whales are able to communicate hundreds of kilometres apart. Yet, for all its wonder, much of the underwater acoustic world remains a mystery to scientists. Although…

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Weekly: First living transparent mouse; lab-grown stem cells; Spy balloons 22:47

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🎧 Episode 266 ⚡️ The first human blood stem cells have been created in a lab and successfully turned into functioning bone marrow. This research could revolutionise the treatment of blood cancers like leukaemia and lymphoma. So far it’s only been tested on mice, but researchers are hopeful it could work in humans too. ⚡️ In other mouse news, we are…

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Episode 48: Alcohol

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Okay, it’s time to finally answer the question: is drinking booze good or bad? Is there really a “J-curve”, such that it’s bad to drink zero alcohol, good to drink a little, and then bad to drink any more than that? What exactly is the “safe level” of alcohol consumption, and why do the meta-analyses on this topic all seem to tell us entirely diffe…

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Alice Driver - On Worker Exploitation: The Hidden Costs of Your Chicken Nuggets | STM Podcast #219 58:40

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On episode 219, we welcome Alice Driver to discuss the widespread labor violations of the meatpacking industry, Tyson’s treatment of its workforce, how the company is able to employ undocumented immigrants, the Arkansas law that allows child labor, how prison labor is used to keep company costs low, the political power of the industry and how gover…

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Weekly: Could mpox be the next covid-19?; Science of beat drops; Clothes made from potatoes 27:15

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🎧 Episode 265 ⚡️ The latest mpox variant has infected a record number of people in central Africa, has been found in travellers in Sweden and Thailand, and the World Health Organization has now declared it a public health emergency of international concern – just 15 months after the previous such declaration for mpox expired in 2023. But is this vi…

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Episode 47: The 25 year old brain

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Everyone knows your brain hasn’t finished maturing until you’re 25. That’s so well-known, in fact, that some countries (like Scotland) have built it into their criminal justice system, giving lower sentences to under-25s—even very violent ones—on account of their immature brains. But in this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart discuss what …

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CultureLab: Lucy Foulkes on how adolescence shapes us 37:31

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Ever wondered how your teenage years shaped the person you are today? Or why certain rebellious behaviours, like underage drinking, seem almost inevitable, no matter which generation you look at? Adolescence is a crucial, yet often misunderstood, phase of life. Adolescent psychologist Lucy Foulkes’s new book ‘Coming of Age: How Adolescence Shapes U…

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Weekly: 1 in 5 coma patients have awareness; How to end the opioid crisis; ‘Wow’ space signal…is lasers? 24:56

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#264 Some people in comas can understand what’s happening around them. Previously estimated to be 1 in 10, that figure has now shot up to 1 in 5 – meaning this hidden awareness is much more common than we realised. Another new drug has been approved to reverse opioid overdoses. Zurnai is more powerful than previous medications, which may be useful …

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Paid-only Episode 11: Sex education

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Did your schoolteacher also do the thing with the banana and the condom? It might’ve been cringe and awkward, but just ask the experts: the evidence is “clear and compelling” that sex education classes reduce the likelihood of teenage pregnancy, the transmission of STIs, and even the prevalence of sexual abuse. In this paid-subscriber-only episode …

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100. Tom Chivers: Thomas Bayes, Bayesian statistics, and science journalism 1:19:46

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Tom Chivers is a journalist who writes a lot about science and applied statistics. We talk about his new book on Bayesian statistics, the biography of Thomas Bayes, the history of probability theory, how Bayes can help with the replication crisis, how Tom became a journalist, and much more. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, …

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Anxiety Special: The science of anxiety and how to make it work for you 25:17

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#263 Anxiety. We’ve all felt it – some worse than others. But what exactly causes anxiety and why are some of us more likely to be hit by it? Science is finally unpacking the ins and outs of this evolutionary response. Whether you experience anxiety getting on a plane or when doing something out of your comfort zone, understanding why it happens is…

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Bruce Ladebu | This Man Has Rescued +2,400 Children From Slavery 1:16:11

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Subscribe To The Curious Worldview Newsletter Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Matthew Freidman -Human Trafficking Lisa Kristine - Photographing Modern Slavery Lisa Kristine Ted Talk Follow me on Instagram – @ryanfhogg Out Of The Slave Fields - Bruce Ladebu (Book) The Children's Rescue Initiative (Donate) ---- At this very moment there a…

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Episode 46: The marshmallow test

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It’s one of the best-known findings of psychology research: kids who can delay gratification by not eating a marshmallow will grow up healther, wiser, and more successful. But guess what? Later studies had trouble finding the same results. What do we actually know about delaying gratification? Get ready to control yourselves, because in this episod…

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CultureLab: The best science TV of the year – so far. 35:27

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With so many new TV series and documentaries available, it can be tough to decide what's truly worth your time. That’s where our TV columnist Bethan Ackerley comes in. From the genetically-gifted superheroes of Supacell…to a sobering documentary about the ethics of assisted dying, she has a wealth of options for your next night in. Bethan and host …

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Constantine Sandis - Debunking Trans Myths: Detransition, Sports, and Epistemic Injustice | Seize The Moment Podcast #218 1:21:22

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On episode 218, we welcome Constantine Sandis to discuss the manifestations of transphobia, why feeling you’re in the wrong body isn’t delusional, the errors of segregation, ways of addressing the placements of trans people in sports, how biology and culture may interact to form trans identities, the rates and common causes of detransitioning, the …

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Weekly: Deepest hole ever drilled in Earth’s mantle; Glitter on Mars; Quantum telepathy 27:00

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#262 Geologists have just drilled deeper into Earth’s mantle than ever before. The hole is in an area of the ocean called Atlantis Massif, where the upper mantle is exposed. Reaching 1268 metres deep, this incredible sample core could help uncover secrets to the very origins of life. Ancient human ancestors called Homo floresiensis and known as the…

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Dead Planets Society: Can We Move the Sun? 31:53

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Earth and all the other planets in our solar system are being dragged on a joyride through the universe, as the Dead Planeteers attempt to move the sun. How slowly would you have to move the sun for its gravity to hold onto the planets? Would any planets end up flinging out of orbit? And which planets can we afford to lose along the way? To answer …

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First anniversary special

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We’ve now been making this podcast for a year(!). We thought we’d mark the occasion with a grossly self-indulgent look back through our favourite episodes - and our least favourites, too. We’ve still got a massive list of potential episode topics, but we always want more. Which topics would you like us to look into? Comments below are open to all. …

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Weekly: The first life on Earth; Banana-shaped galaxies; When is smartphone use ‘problematic’? 31:08

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#261 What was the first life on Earth like? Ancient fossils hint it could be a primitive kind of bacteria – but these 3.5 billion-year-old fossilised cells are controversial since they’re vastly bigger than any modern bacteria. But there’s now reason to believe that maybe, just maybe, they really are what they seem. Three game-changing drugs approv…

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99. Laura Luebbert: gget, hunting viruses, and questionable honeybee dances 1:51:48

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Laura Luebbert just finished her PhD in computational biology and will soon be a postdoc with Pardis Sabeti, to hunt some viruses. We talk about how she got into biology, how she created a widely-used software project (gget) with no prior coding experience, her recent reports when she discovered questionable data in key papers about honeybee dances…

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Chris Voss | The Power Of Open Questions… Never Split The Difference 1:04:14

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Subscribe To The Curious Worldview Newsletter Never Split The Difference Book Review (Things To Know If You Do Sales) Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Christopher Turner – 25 Year CIA Veteran, Lessons In Espionage Sam Leith – It’s Rhetoric All The Way Down Never Split The Difference Book Review (Things To Know If You Do Sales) Follow me …

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Tom Chivers | Probability & Bayes Theorem 1:21:19

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... Other episode of the podcast that suit this episode... Brian Klaas – Fluke & Randomness Russ Roberts – EconTalk Luca Dellanna – Ergodicity All The Way Down Scott Patterson – Chaos Kings Nassim Taleb & Incerto Podcast Follow me on Instagram – @ryanfhogg Everything Is Pr…

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Episode 45: Air pollution

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Remember when they were coming to take your gas stove away? Every so often a study about the effects of air pollution on health goes viral, and we’re reminded again that seemingly innocuous objects—like your kitchen cooker—could be bad for us in unexpected ways. How bad is air pollution? And is it getting any better? In this episode of The Studies …

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CultureLab: Carlo Rovelli on the link between quantum physics and world peace 28:17

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Quantum theory describes the tiny building blocks that make up everything around us. It has made many successful predictions but could a new, more radical idea help us make better sense of the world around us? Could it even be the answer to creating world peace? Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer behind the relational inte…

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