282: Brain-Washing Machine
Plus, a sea of photovoltaic possibility, good news for the environment in America (seriously), global prices back to normal, 'emergent' collective memory for ants, and some Herculaneum scroll action.
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What we learned from Season Three of Hope is Verb
From the moment we started writing our guest list, everything about this season of our podcast felt different.
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280: Murderbot
Plus, bioluminescent nudibranches, Lucy, an update on Moore's Law, and good news on global access to electricity, conservation in Bolivia, China's Great Green Wall, and falling oil demand.
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279: Breakneck solarisation
Plus, the dark proteome, Arcane, a killer tip for your information diet, and good news on TB in Africa, drug overdoses in America, the restoration of Lorde Howe and a coal phase-out in Indonesia.
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278: The Second Copernican Revolution
Plus, Black Myth Wukong, gardening metaphors, why Trump can't stop the energy revolution, and good news on floatovoltaics, pneumococcal vaccines, and desertification in China.
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277: Nauseously optimistic
It's the United States gender reveal! We hope it’s a girl. Plus, an interview with Steven Pinker, global air pollutions deaths fall, EU emissions too, a massive new school feeding program for Kenya, and the Three Body Problem solved.
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276: The regenerative city
Planting the seeds of tomorrow. Plus, Europe's largest ever marine protected area, a black hole triple, good news on tuberculosis, Chinese emissions still on track for a decline, and GLP-1 drugs FTW.
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275: The miraculous resurrection of Notre Dame
Keeping the savoir-faire alive. Plus, elimination of malaria in Egypt, rice fortification for millions in India, the resurrection of the Tasmanian Tiger, the EU sticks to its guns on electric vehicles, and 'orbitronics'.
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274: The beautiful confusion of the first billion years
Knocking on the door of history. Plus, beating cancer, clean energy in the Global South, a new marine sanctuary in California, and parallel parking for rockets.
273: Cathedral thinking
We messed up. Plus, two more diseases eliminated in two countries, great news from the IEA, green transformations in Rio and Seoul, and a new class of shape seen throughout nature.
Millions of little bits
A second report from New York. Plus, a seminal moment in the history of energy, waging war on invasive rodents, a plastic bag ban in California and good news for sea turtles in Greece
What's working
A report from New York. Plus, a miracle in the Middle East, electrifying Africa, global progress against domestic violence, and a cancer moonshot.
All we had to do was create the right conditions
Plus, hydrogen memes, restoring Europe's largest saltwater lagoon, Chinese emissions, electric buses in London, and some good news from the Amazon.
Invisible space bubbles over the pyramids of Giza
Plus, Céline Dion, progress on leprosy, the mirage of shoplifting in the United States, falling suicide rates in Nepal, and Earth rings.
Living Beings
Plus, new clean energy records in Australia, elephants in Nigeria, electric monster trucks, the Atlas of Ungulate Migration, and why solar farms have a superpower beyond clean electricity.
In the blink of an eye
Plus, the latest on our malaria podcast, sanitation in India FTW, London's Ultra Low Emission Zone keeps on delivering, tax collection for billionaires, and great news for migraine sufferers.
I'm 60, I'm ready
Plus, beaver bombing, sodium-ion batteries, debt for nature swaps, and good news on renewables in Portugal, puffins in Maine, and a landmark climate ruling in South Korea.