Tag: podcasts
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Listen: https://ift.tt/ZP12pxB Technologists have feared (or prayed for) the singularity as a rapture-like inevitability for nearly 70 years. In an instant, they believed, our machine intelligence will overtake us and… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/7UDkyvw Why does anger seem to rule the world today? Pankaj Mishra traces our age of anger to the collision of Enlightenment promises of liberty and equality with empire,… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/hX8AvqH Georgina Godwin and Tessa Szyszkowitz on pivotal elections in Germany, the latest Reform UK controversy and more. Plus: how the business model of London’s new art fair, Fair… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/0BfGR4L Gina Raimondo, a former commerce secretary and governor, thinks A.I. will create plenty of jobs in the long run. She also thinks a poorly managed transition could tear… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/K6yRNQH As Chancellor Merz prepares to point the finger at Moscow for hybrid attacks in Leipzig, how has Germany’s foreign policy changed over the last few years? Plus: When… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/OYMXq4U Scientists stripped a cell down to its most essential genes in order to find out what makes life…alive. What they found was more bizarre than they could have… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/bK6uN84 Have you seen the headlines about SpudCell? It's the newest breakthrough in synthetic biology, a synthetic cell with some interesting properties, including cell division. Is it alive? What… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/RraOXgJ What does it mean to be alive? Our origins are the horizon of our understanding, and as with the physical horizon, our approach brings us no closer. The… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/W4PJqfk Cobalt mining is one of the world's most dangerous jobs. And it's also one of the most essential: cobalt is what powers the batteries in your smartphone, your… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/Cq1TLAz What happens when a revolutionary movement takes control of the world’s most vital waterway, bringing global oil shipping to a halt and sparking war with an empire? It’s… more ›