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A protester outside an immigration detention facility in Melbourne, Austraila. FiledIMAGE/Shutterstock Gemma Ware, The Conversation and Justin Bergman, The Conversation The life of limbo for people in immigration detention is often deeply traumatic. In this week’s episode of The Conversation Weekly, we talk to two experts on immigration detention in Australia and the UK about why people are waiting months, …

Where does our love of sugar come from? Magdalena Kucova/Shutterstock Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation What are the evolutionary origins of sugar cravings? What makes something taste sweet? And what does too much sugar do to the brain? In this week’s episode of The Conversation Weekly, we talk to three experts and go on a deep …

After South African scientists sounded the alarm about the new omicron variant, countries around the world closed their borders. Kim Ludbrook/EPA Gemma Ware, The Conversation and Daniel Merino, The Conversation What is it like to discover a new coronavirus variant? In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we hear the inside story from one of the South African scientists …

Headphone designers have to balance scientific limitations with human preferences. Vladimir Godnik via Getty Images Timothy Hsu, IUPUI Between music, podcasts, gaming and the unlimited supply of online content, most people spend hours a week wearing headphones. Perhaps you are considering a new pair for the holidays, but with so many options on the market, it can be hard to …

Sepp photography/Shutterstock Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation Some economists have long argued that to really save the planet – and ourselves – from the climate crisis, we need a fundamental overhaul of the way our economies work. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we explore the ideas of the degrowth movement and their calls for …

Antoine Arjakovsky, Collège des Bernardins; Fabrice Rousselot, The Conversation France et Françoise Marmouyet, The Conversation France In extenso, des podcasts en séries pour faire le tour d’un sujet. En un an, un virus inconnu a mis la planète sens dessus dessous, bousculant tous nos repères. Il a fallu apprendre à vivre dans l’incertitude. Mais il nous faut aussi réfléchir à …

 (4 / 4) Fabrice Rousselot, The Conversation et Françoise Marmouyet, The Conversation « In extenso », des podcasts en séries pour faire le tour d’un sujet. En un an, un virus inconnu a mis la planète sens dessus dessous, bousculant tous nos repères. Il a fallu apprendre à vivre dans l’incertitude. Mais il nous faut aussi réfléchir à la nature de cette crise, aux …

Les nouvelles technologies ne doivent pas nous faire oublier la question du sens que l’on veut leur donner. Pixabay, CC BY-SA Laurent Bibard, ESSEC and Thibault Lieurade, The Conversation France « In extenso », des podcasts en séries pour faire le tour d’un sujet. Mouvement NoGender, procréation médicalement assistée, gestation pour autrui, et même bébés génétiquement modifiés en Chine, voire transhumanisme… Les …

Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, as India’s COVID-19 crisis continues, we look at what’s holding back the country’s vaccination rollout and how a shift in strategy on distribution and pricing is causing concern. And we speak to a researcher who went hunting for fungi in the world’s largest …