Coronavirus and the Stats: Your Questions Answered
Feeling confused by all the data and metrics about coronavirus that are flying around? In this episode, Britain’s most eminent statistician David Spiegelhalter, biometrics expert Sheila Bird, and the ...
23 Huhti 20201h 1min
Who We Listen To And Who We Don't, with Stephen Martin, Joseph Marks and Helen Lewis
Why are self-confident ignoramuses so often believed? Why are thoughtful experts so often given the cold shoulder? And why do apparently irrelevant details such as a person’s height, their relative we...
21 Huhti 202035min
Coronavirus and the Economy: Your Questions Answered
What will the long-term economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic be? For the fourth in a new series of interactive events from Intelligence Squared - Coronavirus: Your Questions Answered - we broug...
17 Huhti 20201h 4min
Hype, Smoke and Mirrors, with Gemma Milne and Carl Miller
Hype has a dark side. It can mislead, distract and blinker us from seeing what is actually going on. In this episode we are joined by Gemma Milne, tech journalist and author of Smoke and Mirrors: How ...
14 Huhti 202056min
Coronavirus and Global Politics: Your Questions Answered
The coronavirus pandemic threatens to remake the world's political systems. But how exactly? In the third in a new series of interactive events from Intelligence Squared - Coronavirus: Your Questions ...
10 Huhti 20201h 11min
The Unravelling of the Modern Middle East, with Kim Ghattas and Brian Klaas
It all started in 1979. According to Kim Ghattas, the former BBC journalist and author of Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East, this was the pivotal year that...
7 Huhti 202041min
Mind, Matter and Meaning, with Brian Greene and Tom Whipple
In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws. In this episode we are joined by Brian Greene, theoretical physicist and a...
3 Huhti 202043min
Coronavirus: Your Questions Answered
How can we protect ourselves from coronavirus? How long will the current situation last? Why has the death rate been so high in Italy? And why have some other countries apparently been more successful...
31 Maalis 20201h 12min
