Christiana Figueres - Our Story of Nature
Christiana Figueres' podcast Outrage + Optimism is essential listening for anyone who wants to understand the complexity of the climate situation. This podcast is a preview of their mini-series, Our S...
17 Apr 20241h 12min
Philip Ball – How Life Works
Philip Ball returns to the How To Academy Podcast to share the extraordinary revelations of contemporary science and make us think again about what we think we know about how life works. Illuminating ...
12 Apr 20241h 4min
Gary Stevenson – Confessions of a Trader
Gary Stevenson was the youngest trader in the whole city, and became the most profitable one too at his bank after betting against the economy. But what happens when you bet on millions becoming poore...
9 Apr 20241h 10min
Classicists Mary Beard and Jo Quinn - Who Made The West?
We think we know what it was like to rule – and be ruled – in the Ancient Roman world. We think we know that Roman values and ideas formed the cornerstone of Western civilisation. We are wrong. In thi...
5 Apr 20241h 14min
Neuroscientist Charan Ranganath meets Robin Ince - Why We Remember
Over twenty-five years, neuroscientist Charan Ranganath has studied the flawed, incomplete and purposefully inaccurate nature of memory to find that our brains haven’t evolved to keep a comprehensive ...
2 Apr 20241h 17min
Harvard's Christopher Palmer - Metabolism and Mental Health
Dr Christopher Palmer advocates a metabolic approach to mental health, focussing on the the things we put in our body as the key to how they function. Sharing insights into the generational legacy of ...
26 Mar 20241h 19min
Diplomat Christiana Figueres and former Unilever CEO Paul Polman - How to Fight the Climate Crisis
A household name in the climate movement, Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010-2016 and led the negot...
22 Mar 202458min
Justin Webb Meets Brian Klaas - Why Everything We Do Matters
What if, by exploding our illusion of control, we can make better decisions and live happy, fulfilling lives? Offering an entirely new perspective, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas explore...
20 Mar 20241h 13min
