A revealing glimpse into the inner workings of the military’s PR machine with Steven J Alvarez

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Steven J. Alvarez: Selling War - A Critical Look at the Military's PR Machine

A conversation about the right to be forgotten, which raises important questions of free speech, privacy, reputation, and dignity. Should individuals have a right to have data about themselves deleted?

Meg Leta Jones: Ctrl + Z - The Right To Be Forgotten

Biologist Sean B Carroll talks to Craig Barfoot about his latest book, The Serengeti Rules. We find out how wolves can change the physical shape of rivers and why on the plains of the Serengeti, 150kg is the number which determines if you will get eaten or not.

Sean B Carroll: The Serengeti Rules - The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters

What exactly is social class? Do words like lower class or middle class have any meaning anymore? A conversation with social researcher Will Atkinson to explore the idea of class.

Will Atkinson: Class

An interview about the fascinating array of animal, and perhaps human behaviour that is directly or indirectly influenced by the moon.

Ernest Naylor: Moonstruck, How Lunar Cycles Affect Life

A discussion about the control, ownership and rights of water.

Mike Gonzales: The Last Drop, The Politics of Water

Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe.

Frank Wilczek: A Beautiful Question, Finding Natures Deep Design

Can evolutionary medicine help us understand why people get sick? An interview discussing the human body and medicine in an evolutionary perspective to reveal what has made us susceptible to certain illnesses over time and how we can use that knowledge to help us treat or prevent them.

Jeremy Taylor: Body by Darwin, How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine

Julian Assange speaks about US power, the impact of Wikileaks, the current state of the internet and the shaping our world for the future.

Julian Assange: The Wikileaks Files, The World According to US Empire

An illuminating look at the surprising upside of ambiguity and how, properly harnessed, it can inspire learning, creativity, and even empathy.

Jamie Holmes: Nonsense, The Power of Not Knowing

The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about ‘cultural’ and ‘creative’ work as a major driver of developed economies. With a new preface and new material on the evolving fashion industry, this second edition gives a clear summary of the theories surrounding the role and function of fashion in modern society. Entwistle examines how fashion plays a crucial role in the formation of modern identity through its articulation of the body, gender and sexuality.

Joanne Entwistle: The Fashioned Body, Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory

Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction. Climate change is planetary engineering without design. These facts of the Anthropocene are scientific, but its shape and meaning are questions for politics—a politics that does not yet exist. After Nature develops a politics for this post-natural world.

Jedediah Purdy: After Nature, A Politics for the Anthropocene

A conversation about the US university system, how it functions, why it costs so much money and what is the future for college education?

Kevin Carey: The End of College

A conversation about why the electric car disappeared and why it is now coming back in an unstoppable way.

Episode 10: John Fialka, Car Wars

Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth talks about his work in markets where little or no money is involved like getting a job or finding a partner.

Episode 9: Alvin Roth, Who Gets What and Why

An interview show about the best, most groundbreaking non-fiction books of the year.

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