Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat if your favourite food became extinct?
It is possible. Flavours have been lost to the past, as culinary physicist Lenore Newman explains. She points to the extinction of the passenger pige…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Massey Lecture Part 2 | The six years that remade human rights
The ideals behind the concept of human rights — such as the sacredness of life, reciprocity, justice and fairness — have millennia-old histories. Aft…
4 months ago
Lessons from the women of Iran's 1979 'stolen' revolution
At a time when the future of Iran is uncertain, we revisit an IDEAS documentary about the history of women’s resistance in Iran — women who in 1979 h…
4 months ago
God, parades and authoritarianism on the streets of Georgia
Accusations of a stolen election, laws targeting NGOs and media, violent treatment of protestors — sometimes live on TV. What’s happening in the repu…
4 months ago
Wait, so addiction might not be a brain disease?
That’s what Hanna Pickard argues. After analyzing the scientific research, and working with those who’ve stopped self-destructive drug and alcohol us…
4 months ago
'Accidental activist' links resource extraction to missing and murdered Indigenous women
Connie Greyeyes describes herself as an ‘accidental activist.’ After her cousin was murdered and her childhood best friend went missing, she started …
4 months ago
Massey Lecture Part 1 | Renewing the promise of human rights
Universality is the core promise of human rights: these rights extend to everyone, everywhere. But above all else, this is where we have failed. In h…
4 months, 1 week ago
The suffragist who was too radical for Susan. B. Anthony
You likely have never heard of Matilda Joslyn Gage. Gloria Steinem calls her “the woman ahead of the women who were ahead of their time.” Matilda wor…
4 months, 1 week ago
How can we prevent AI from becoming a menace?
There are two things most people agree on — artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing, and the grave risks AI poses are very real — no one, not ev…
4 months, 1 week ago
What will happen to us when the internet dies?
And it is dying. At least for us, humans. Our chatter and connection online is being overrun by bots — more than half of online activity is non-human…
4 months, 1 week ago