Autism, RFK Jr and avoiding disability surveillance
Robert F Kennedy Jr caused controversy in April by promising to find a cause for autism by September. Claims by the new US secretary for health and human services that autism is a “preventable disease...
26 Jun 202533min
Self-censorship and what drives it
Faced with the choice in their daily lives, their work or their politics, why do some people decide to keep quiet, to censor themselves in anticipatory obedience, even if they’re not ordered to do so?...
19 Jun 202531min
Cash for releasing sharks has a catch
As Jaws marks its 50th anniversary, sharks continue to get a bad rap. Film after film portrays them as terrifying hunters, the bane of surfers and swimmers. But in Indonesia, sharks are the hunted. It...
12 Jun 202523min
The 15% solution part 2: can a global tax make the world fairer?
In October 2021, 136 countries agreed to establish new tax rules requiring large multinational companies to pay at least 15% in corporate tax. Nearly four years later, this ambitious agreement is fina...
6 Jun 202521min
The 15% solution part 1: why global tax reform is long overdue
For decades, multinational corporations have used sophisticated strategies to shift profits away from where they do business. As a result, countries around the world lose an estimated US$500 billion a...
5 Jun 202526min
The trafficked American guns fuelling Mexico’s cartel violence
More than two thirds of guns recovered at Mexican crime scenes originate in the U.S. For decades, Mexico has struggled with staggering levels of gun violence fuelled in large part by weapons trafficke...
29 Mai 202541min
New theories of Alzheimer's taking the search for a cure in a different direction
For much of the 21st century, one theory has dominated research efforts to cure Alzheimer's disease: the amyloid hypothesis. Beta-amyloid is a protein that builds up in clumps, or plaques, in the brai...
22 Mai 202531min
After USAID: the future of foreign aid
Three months after the Trump administration made drastic cuts to its aid agency, USAID, the effects are being felt across the world, particularly in Africa. In this episode we speak to Bright Simons, ...
15 Mai 202535min
