
290: How The Dams Came Down
Plus, holding vigil on Mare Crisium, the Mothers of Light, and good news on solar powered vaccine fridges, poverty in Nepal, and conservation in Kazakhstan.
Plus, holding vigil on Mare Crisium, the Mothers of Light, and good news on solar powered vaccine fridges, poverty in Nepal, and conservation in Kazakhstan.
"The villagers’ lives will become more prosperous too." Plus, young Americans are happier, great news on HIV prevention drug, the world's longest underwater tunnel, sociogenomics, and Donald Trump versus market forces.
Fundamental principles across different scales of reality. Plus, primordial water, super lasers, Right to Repair, and good news on childcare in Canada, vaccinations in Zimbabwe, de-mining in Cambodia, and re-wilding in New Zealand.
To see the web of the world, and the warp and the weft of that web. Plus, an astonishingly good year for clean energy, child marriage declines in Malaysia, poverty falling in Thailand, the return of big carnivores in Europe, and the most powerful AI biology tool ever created.
A planet straight out of science fiction. Plus, one year of malaria vaccines, California's MPAs are working, child mortality down in Asian countries, garden cities in the Amazon, cleaning up the Arctic, and fuel demand levels off in China.
"Consensual reality is significantly flawed." Plus, good news on high school graduation rates, two breakthroughs for rice-farming, labour reform in Spain, fur production plummets, and Baltics ditch Russian energy.
Plus, some big wins for gender rights, peak air pollution, a new fusion record, and good news on youth crime in America, forest protection in the Amazon Basin and central Africa, and plummeting emissions in Europe.
Plus, vortex lances, why life is more than an engineering problem, and good news on global wage inequality, sanitation in Cambodia, conservation in Bolivia, and peak oil in China.
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.
From the moment we started writing our guest list, everything about this season of our podcast felt different.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'.