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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What makes us human? When, why and how did the human brain evolve? Prof Gamble explains his ‘social brain’ hypothesis.
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Research suggests that 10% of children are victims of bullying and 5% of children are involved in bullying others. Why are some children bullies and others victims?, What can parents do to help?
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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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“Our minds are made up of all the same atoms and molecules as everything else in nature – the architecture of our brains was born from the same energy principles, the same pure mathematics that happens in flowers, and jellyfish…
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How good are we at understanding each other? Other people are complicated, so when we try to guess what they’re thinking we often get it wrong. Even with our partners! Research suggests that partners are hardly any better (and sometimes…
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The abiding rhetoric of US foreign policy is ‘freedom and democracy’: “We will support democracy from Asia to Africa; from the Americas to the Middle East, because our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom.”…
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To ensure their future food security, rich countries are buying up land in poor countries. Ah, that’s China, you may think! But as Stefano Liberti, author of Land Grabbing: Journeys in the New Colonialism, explains to Craig Barfoot, China is a…
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