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Future Food: From Lab to Fork
Almost 30% of the global population suffers from food insecurity, according to the WHO. By 2050, the world might face a severe food shortage. Researchers from the University of Minnesota project that the global population will reach 9.6 billion by...
Jun 21, 2024 07:26
Sex disrupts society – evolutionary psychologist
Cultures all over the world glorify love as the greatest creative power. But it also has the greatest evolutionary value. We talked about this with Dr. David Buss, professor of psychology at the University of Texas....
Feb 25, 2022 06:43
Despite godlike technologies, our goals are primitive – sculptor
Pablo Picasso once famously said that sculpture is the art of intelligence. We talked to Sir Antony Gormley, sculptor, intellectual and philosopher. Follow @SophieCo_RT Instagram Sophieco.visionaries...
Jan 14, 2022 06:33
We’re parasites like viruses – biochemist
For ages, we've been trying to trace the origins of life on Earth. How did a barren rock turn into something as flourishing, beautiful, and abundant as we know it? We asked Nick Lane, professor of evolutionary biochemistry at University College...
Dec 3, 2021 08:21
On Contact: Business secrets of drug dealers
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the business secrets of drug-dealing with investigative journalist Matt Taibbi. No one knows exactly how big the underground or illegal economy is in the United States, but most estimates say it's huge, 11%, maybe...
Nov 21, 2021 06:19
In 30 years, real meat will only be available in illegal places – 1st stem-cell burger creator
The Earth’s population is growing and so is the demand for food. Will we be able to sustain the planet when there are twice as many of us, and not completely destroy the environment? We talked to a man who has presented the first lab-grown...
Oct 22, 2021 06:42
On Contact: Trauma & Transformation in an American Prison, Part 2
In the second of a two-part interview, journalist Hugh Hamilton discusses with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges the role of race and poverty in mass incarceration, as chronicled in Hedges’ new book, ‘Our Class:...
Oct 17, 2021 07:27
On Contact: The age of manufactured ignorance
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the age of manufactured ignorance with the scholar Professor Henry A. Giroux.Education, Giroux writes, has increasingly become a tool of domination as right-wing pedagogical apparatuses controlled by the...
Sep 10, 2021 07:54
The world without insects is scary – biologist
Our planet’s biodiversity has long been crying for help. Hundreds of species could vanish off the face of the Earth, and we are talking end of this century, Bees are one of them. What would their extinction mean for our future? We talk with...
Jul 30, 2021 06:22
Lab-made life possible very soon – Nobel Prize-winning astronomer
Planets beyond our solar system have until recently only existed in sci-fi and our imagination. Now, it’s not only possible to detect these objects that are light-years away, we can even gauge the potential for life on them. We discuss this...
Jul 9, 2021 06:21