This interview takes us to the heart of a new age of scientific discovery. The ability to read DNA has changed how we view ourselves. Genomics is literally changing our understanding of humanity’s place in nature. Professor Dawn Field of the University…
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The deep past extends its tentacles into the present and, in Work, Sex and Power Willie Thompson, until his retirement Professor of Contemporary History at Glasgow Caledonian University, demonstrates how this affects our species. He talks to Pod Academy’s Craig Barfooot about…
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The deep past extends its tentacles into the present and, in Work, Sex and Power Willie Thompson, until his retirement Professor of Contemporary History at Glasgow Caledonian University, demonstrates how this affects our species. He talks to Pod Academy’s Craig Barfooot about…
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For half a century Professor Ted Robert Gurr has conducted social science research and theorised about the causes and consequences of organised political rebellion and protest. His latest book, Political Rebellion Causes Outcomes and Alternatives is a collection of essays looking at how and why,…
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Most of us don’t really understand what money is, or what it might be. Can it be wrested from the domination and mismanagement of banks and governments and restored to its fundamental role as a “claim upon society”?
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Greece is going to the polls, against the background of austerity measures that have signally failed to reduce the public debt. Further austerity measures cannot work argues economist Yannis Kitromilides, the only way forward is radical reform of the EMU.
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‘Water wars’ used to seem like the stuff of science fiction. But water poverty is creating major geopolitical upheaval right now in the real world. It contributed to the Arab Spring in Egypt, and to the growth of ISIS in Syria argues…
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Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Revelation. But what about Josephus or the Book of Enoch? Did you know that the Bible with which we are familiar is not the complete story? Or that there are mistakes in the…
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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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