The Conversation Weekly

The Conversation Weekly

A show for curious minds, from The Conversation.  Each week, host Gemma Ware speaks to an academic expert about a topic in the news to understand how we got here.

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Three AI experts on how access to ChatGPT-style tech is about to change our world

Three AI experts on how access to ChatGPT-style tech is about to change our world

When ChatGPT burst onto the technology world in November 2022, it gained 100 million users within just two months after its launch. The technology itself is fascinating, but part of what makes ChatGPT...

2 Maalis 202341min

 Discovery: Biologists discovered a new species of tiny owl on the forested island of Príncipe, and it's already under threat

Discovery: Biologists discovered a new species of tiny owl on the forested island of Príncipe, and it's already under threat

An international team of biologists has discovered a tiny new species of owl, called the Príncipe scops owl, living in a remote forest on an island off the west coast of Africa.Featuring Bárbara Freit...

27 Helmi 202321min

After oil: the challenge and promise of getting the world off fossil fuels

After oil: the challenge and promise of getting the world off fossil fuels

Our dependence on fossil fuels is one of the biggest challenges to overcome in the fight against climate change. But production and consumption of fossil fuels is on the rise, and expected to peak wit...

23 Helmi 202337min

Loneliness is making us physically sick, but social prescribing can treat it

Loneliness is making us physically sick, but social prescribing can treat it

Social isolation and loneliness are increasingly becoming a societal problem, as they increase polarization and impact on our physical health. In 2018, two years before the pandemic, the United Kingdo...

16 Helmi 202336min

Lack of diversity in clinical trials is leaving minority patients behind and harming the future of medicine

Lack of diversity in clinical trials is leaving minority patients behind and harming the future of medicine

Despite the many biological differences between people of different sexes, races, ages and life histories, chances are that if two people walk into a doctors office with the same symptoms, they are go...

9 Helmi 202340min

Influencers are getting hired by smaller cities to attract new residents and generate revenue

Influencers are getting hired by smaller cities to attract new residents and generate revenue

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the demographics of cities shifted. As stay-at-home orders, remote work and bubbling reduced social interaction, and restaurants, venues and arts destinations shut down t...

2 Helmi 202328min

Beavers and oysters are helping restore lost ecosystems with their engineering skills

Beavers and oysters are helping restore lost ecosystems with their engineering skills

Whether you’re looking at tropical forests in Brazil, grasslands in California or coral reefs in Australia, it’s hard to find places where humanity hasn't left a mark. The scale of the alteration, inv...

26 Tammi 202339min

Discovery: Secretly documenting starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto

Discovery: Secretly documenting starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto

During the years of suffering and tragedy that defined the Warsaw Ghetto in the midst of World War II, a team of Jewish doctors secretly documented the effects of starvation on the human body when the...

23 Tammi 202319min

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