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The Cosmic Absurd – How The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy nearly explains our world

A pocket-sized device that contains all knowledge in the universe? Which makes your life better, and not a hellscape of political rancour and surveillance capitalism? Come off it! Never happen. But that’s exactly what Douglas Adams imagined as the titular device in The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Ga…

Will A.I. really kill us all?

Amid the multi-trillion dollar stampede to build and control A.I., one question is being drowned out: Will artificial intelligence kill the entire human race, and all life on the planet? Nate Soares is president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author of a chilling exploration …

Iron Curtain Call – How The Spy Who Came In From The Cold still tells the ugly truth about espionage

John le Carré was still a working secret agent when he wrote The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, the book that shocked the Britain of 1963 with its portrait of espionage not as heroic but as sordid, morally compromised and utterly without glamour. In comparison James Bond’s escapist world of girls a…

One year of Trump 2.0 – Does scandal mean anything anymore?

It's been a year since Trump’s election victory, how has US politics changed? What’s the trajectory? And is there any hope for the future? Emma Kennedy is joined by Casey Burgat, author of We Hold These "Truths": How to Spot the Myths that are Holding America Back and director of the Legislative Af…

Could it happen here? The threat of a British version of MAGA

The MAGA cult’s idol worship is the fuel for Trump’s war on American democracy. As British politics lurches to the right, could something similar ever happen here? Could violent racist nationalism and conspiracy thinking build a know-nothing cult of personality that would threaten our society? Prof…

Five ways Trump's reign might end

From troops on the streets to desecrating the White House to literal sh*tposting videos, Trump’s fascistic reign is relentless and exhausting. One day it will end – but how? Will he run out of steam, lose an election the Constitution says he’s not allowed to run in anyway, succumb to age and infirm…

The Future is Slop – Why the Far-Right loves tacky A.I. imagery

Blond white children playing in slightly-too-colourful fields? London as an open sewer patrolled by threatening migrants? Trump as Superman? Alligators in MAGA hats? The far-right thrives on generative artificial intelligence images and they’re all so naff. Is A.I. slop the official art style of th…

The Memory Tapes Episode 10 - Bright Sparks: Australian Innovation

Episode Ten – Bright Sparks: The Story of Australian Innovation In this final episode, Dr Shirleene Robinson explores the remarkable history of Australian innovation and scientific ingenuity. The episode investigates 65,000 years of invention and imagination from First Nations Australians and con…

The Ulcer — The Answer Was There the Whole Time

In 1979, a pathologist in Perth saw something in a gastric biopsy that couldn't be there. The stomach is sterile. Everyone knew this. It had been established in 1954. One study. Case closed. Robin Warren wrote it down anyway. Then Barry Marshall drank it. The cure for ulcers was sitting on the stom…