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Downstream: How To Predict the Future w/ Peter Turchin
History is not just one thing after another. Historians spend lifetimes figuring out how X event in medieval France impacted Y event in 20th century …
2 years, 8 months ago
Novara FM: Let’s Go Outside
There are few ideas for addressing climate change more alluring than rewilding: the idea that nature, gently supported at first and then left more or…
2 years, 8 months ago
Downstream: The British Media Is Broken w/ Moya Lothian-McLean & Michael Walker
For a Downstream family special, Ash Sarkar is joined by Moya Lothian-McLean and Michael Walker – both contributing editors at Novara Media – to disc…
2 years, 8 months ago
Novara FM: Wave of Automation w/ Aaron Benanev
We’re living through a rapid acceleration in AI capability, a development that feels as scary as it is stunning. At the end of 2020, James Butler was…
2 years, 8 months ago
Novara FM: The Mute Compulsion of Capitalism w/ Søren Mau
Capitalism’s power over us can feel mysterious, abstract. Not only is it baffling that a system rocked by crises can be so robust, but the terms used…
2 years, 9 months ago
Downstream: How Corporations Control the Government w/ Matt Kennard
Many people would agree that corporations have undue influence over our democracies. But exactly how this influence is exerted is tricky to work out …
2 years, 9 months ago
Novara FM: Palestine as Showroom w/ Antony Loewenstein
Israel needs friends. And one of the main tools it has used to get them is its arms industry. The 10th biggest in the world, it increasingly speciali…
2 years, 9 months ago
Downstream: God-Like AI Is Closer Than You Think w/ Ian Hogarth
Ian Hogarth has invested in more than 50 artificial intelligence companies and is co-author of the annual State of AI report. And he’s worried. Not o…
2 years, 9 months ago
ACFM Microdose: Sitcoms At Work
After last week’s look at the politics of comedy, this time the gang turn to the gogglebox for a Microdose about sitcoms. Specifically, we’re watchin…
2 years, 9 months ago
Novara FM: Tout Le Monde Déteste La Police
The French left is in its most explosive state for a generation. In response to the pension reforms pushed through by Emmanuel Macron’s government, t…
2 years, 9 months ago