DAVID WALLACE-WELLS: “The climate crisis might not be as bad as we thought” (a slight retraction)
He famously wrote the New York magazine essay that told us “it is worse, much worse than you think” and painted an apocalyptic picture of an “Uninhabitable Earth” by 2100.The essay, which became the #...
12 Juli 202253min
KYLIE MOORE-GILBERT: How to survive 804 days captured and tortured by Iranian militants
She spent two years and three months in a brutal Iranian prison. In solitary confinement for half of it. For a crime that was entirely made up. The Melbourne University lecturer was attending a confer...
5 Juli 202251min
JOSEPH HENRICH: You are weird! Here’s the scientist who can explain why
I really love the wild theory we explore in this episode. About 1500 years ago some obscure Catholic pope declared we probably shouldn’t marry our cousin. And from here the “West” was born. A psycholo...
30 Juni 202237min
LECH BLAINE: The death of "blokes" (strap in for this one!)
I have been wanting to talk blokedom for a very long time: How and why it defines so much about Australia; how it excludes and masks the existence of class inequalities; and how it holds us back as a ...
21 Juni 202246min
JULIA CAMERON: How to live the artist's way
In 1992 Julia Cameron published a book that saw the whole world (it seemed) suddenly writing "morning pages", these free-from diary entries that unblocked creativity. The Artist's Way was the title an...
14 Juni 202240min
PROF GEORGE PAXINOS: Are our brains "good" enough to save the planet?
In this brain-bending ep we explore this wild idea: are there good brains and can we find a way to use them to save the planet. My guest is Professor George Paxinos AO, the world’s leading brain exper...
7 Juni 202245min
SHEENA IYENGAR: How to choose the best option
Sheena Iyengar’s The Art of Choosing – the book and the wildly popular TED talk – posits a profoundly paradoxical idea. Despite what we might think, we don’t like choice, or at least not too much of i...
31 Maj 202249min
THIS WILD ELECTION: EP 12, Last thoughts…with Betoota Advocate
THIS WILD ELECTION: EP 12, Last thoughts…with Betoota AdvocateIt's been a wild ride but here ends our journey together. Wendell Hussey from the awesome satirical news site and I answer last questions ...
19 Maj 202253min
