We hear the latest on the unrest in Peru and about the reaction to the shooting of a prominent Dutch journalist known for investigating the mob. Plus: a round-up of the latest aviation news.
Category Archives: Podcasts
Science: Avoiding Sudden Food Scarcity, Lattice Strength, Time Neurons
Addressing the problem of sudden food scarcity in US cities, and the up-and-coming field of computational social science.
In this episode:
00:45 Food shocks
Climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and geopolitical crises can cause food shortages. To tackle this issue, Alfonso Mejia and colleagues have modelled how to best mitigate these food shocks in US cities. Alfonso tells us about the new analyses and what steps cities could take in the future.
Research Article: Gomez et al.
News and Views: How to buffer against an urban food shortage
06:07 Research Highlights
A tiny lattice can withstand the impacts of projectiles at twice the speed of sound, and the neurons that allow humans to perceive time.
Research Highlight: Supersonic strikes leave just a dent in this super-light material
Research Highlight: The ‘time neurons’ that help the brain keep track
08:25 Computational Social Science
Big data is transforming research, and social science is no exception. This week, Nature is running a special issue on ‘computational social science’. We catch up with some of the editors involved to find out more about this up-and-coming field.
Collections: Computational Social Science
19:27 Briefing Chat
We discuss some highlights from the Nature Briefing. This time, discovering the dazzling diversity of viruses, and how China eradicated malaria.
Nature News Feature: Beyond coronavirus: the virus discoveries transforming biology
Environments: Blue Oak Woodlands Of Sequoia National Park (Podcast)
Morning News: Syria & UN Aid, Hong Kong & Airbnb Restrictions In France
The latest on the UN Security Council showdown over humanitarian aid for Syria. Plus: we find out about Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam’s call for parents to monitor their children’s political beliefs and the French cities that are imposing restrictions on Airbnb.
Health: Understanding Chronic Pain (Podcast)
Chronic pain affects about 40% of the UK population. While there is growing recognition that pain can be an illness in and of itself, there is still a lot we don’t know.
Anand Jagatia hears from fibromyalgia sufferer Vicky Naylor on what it’s like to live with chronic pain, and the Guardian’s science correspondent Linda Geddes about the causes for these sometimes debilitating conditions.
Morning News: Tokyo Olympics Controversies, V.P. Politics & Freedom
The Olympics are less than three weeks away and over this past weekend we saw three big headlines, all having to do with restrictions that have primarily affected women of color and intersex people.
And it’s left many fans wondering who these Olympic rules are actually serving.
- And, infighting in the Vice President’s office.
- Plus, Noah Feldman — and you — on what freedom means in America now.
Guests: Axios’ Ina Fried, Margaret Talev and Harvard University constitutional law professor Noah Feldman.
Morning News: America’s Afghanistan Exit, Media Companies & Race Horses
Passport queues are lengthening; ad-hoc civilian militias are strengthening. As foreign powers bow out, Taliban militants take district after district—and the fear of the people is palpable.
The pandemic drove a boom in the attention economy, and media companies happily obliged. Now, it seems, an “attention recession” looms. And a look at the thoroughly inbred nature of thoroughbred horses.
Sunday Morning: News From Zurich, London, Pretoria And Hua Hin
Monocle’s editorial director Tyler Brûlé, Eemeli Isoaho and Isabel Knobel on the weekend’s biggest discussion topics, with check-ins by our friends and contributors in London, Pretoria and Hua Hin.
Saturday Morning: News From London (July 3)
Georgina Godwin sets the tone for the weekend including a look at the day’s papers with Simon Brooke and Monocle’s editor in chief Andrew Tuck’s column. Plus: what we learned this week.
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