“Free Thought vs Free Speech” with Jenara Nerenberg
Are people too disagreeable these days? Or, in fact, are we losing the knack for disagreement? Are we self-silencing? Or getting more rude? Jenara Nerenberg is the founder and host of The Neurodiversi...
12 Touko 20251h 5min
"Does Alien Life Exist?" with astrophysicist Dr Sara Webb
Are we alone? If alien life exists, why can't we find it? What's "the great filter"? Why is the universe set up the way it is? What are the chances there 's some purpose to it all? And is BBC News cor...
8 Touko 20251h 21min
“Conspiracies, Echo Chambers & Culture Wars” with Sacha Judd
The internet is a dumpster fire. Are you a firefighter? Or an arsonist? This episode is a cracker. Sacha Judd is an expert on internet subcultures. A former lawyer, she has become something like “the ...
5 Touko 20251h 44min
PREVIEW: Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dave Sweeney
Do nuclear weapons protect Western civilisation? Or are they an insane error that humanity should undo? Is nuclear power worth the cost and risk? Dave Sweeney co-founded the International Campaign to ...
2 Touko 202550min
BONUS: "Indigenous Land Acknowledgement Furore" with Tyson Yunkaporta
Have indigenous Welcomes-to-Country gone too far? On Friday, far-right hecklers disrupted the Welcome to Country (i.e. the land acknowledgment, in North American parlance) of a profound Australian nat...
1 Touko 20251h 11min
"Facebook Whistleblower" Frances Haugen
What’s social media doing to us, and how would you fix it? Mark Zuckerberg has been a busy boy on the witness stand in Washington DC lately. In one of the most consequential antitrust cases in tech hi...
28 Huhti 20251h 13min
"American Authoritarianism" with Matt Welch
What do you make of a U.S. government that snatches people off the street and disappears them into Central American prisons, forever, with no trial, and no way to appeal? Matt Welch is a libertarian j...
24 Huhti 20251h 24min
“Reimagining Schooling” with Finnish education icon Prof. Pasi Sahlberg
What's the purpose of school? Why do we run schools the way we do? How might we reinvent education in an era of artificial intelligence and ADHD? Professor Pasi Sahlberg is one of the world's leading ...
21 Huhti 20251h 48min
