What is the universe made of? What is ‘dark matter’? Why is the universe still expanding? These are just some of the questions astrophysicist Professor Katherine Freese tackles in this wonderfully accessible interview with Pod Academy’s Craig Barfoot. Katherine Freese, is the…
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This podcast is presented and produced by Craig Barfoot In 2007, Alan Greenspan, then Chairman of the US Federal Reserve was asked by the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger who, in his view, would be the next president of the United States. …
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This podcast is produced and presented by Craig Barfoot In the 20th Century, humans killed hundreds of thousands of wild animals as we sought to build new homes and develop agriculture. Now the 21st century is characterised by conservation and re-wilding – but can ranchers and…
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In 1958 Charles Keeling began measuring the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere – the graph of his year-on-year measurements is called ‘The Keeling Curve’. Fast forward 50 years, and we are all familiar with debates on global warming, but it is a…
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How much of our social status is tied to that of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favour of…
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A third of workers, internationally, earn less than $2 a day. The World Bank sets the poverty line at $1.25 a day, and on that basis asserts that poverty is declining. But is that right? Where did that figure come from?
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Between 1975 and 2010 the style of gourmet dining, in America and beyond, was transformed. Increasingly, restaurants of ‘fine’ dining incorporated food, décor, and other elements previously limited to the ‘casual’ dining experience. The celebrity chef, working in an open kitchen,…
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Involving citizens in the governance of public services – education, housing, transport – holds out the promise of more responsive, better run and more democratically accountable services. But it is a big ask. Many people won’t have the experience, the…
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Some of us love fashion. But all that alluring glamour comes at a price. Sally Feldman talks to journalist and campaigner, Tansy Hoskins, about her book Stitched Up: The anti-captalist book of fashion. They explore what is behind the clothes…
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When we think of the stuff that dreams are made on, we might think of the spirits that Shakespeare’s Prospero conjures up in “The Tempest”; we might think of stars, rainbows, maybe even wishing wells, but what probably doesn’t leap…
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