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Democracy and famine

What is the cause of famine? It’s not the obvious answer

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How to stop murder

How can we reduce murder rates?

• 9 mins

The teenage brain

Why can’t teenagers get out of bed in the morning?

• 9 mins

Consciousness: A strange theory

Humans are conscious, but is consciousness also in tables and chairs?

• 9 mins

The intelligent tree

Are trees intelligent?

• 9 mins

A future without doctors?

AI will be of assistance, but surely we’ll always need surgeons, doctors, and nurses?

• 9 mins

How does language work?

How do we process language? We speak to a neuroscientist who specialises in language

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Why are some nations rich?

Why are some nations richer than others?

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The afterlife

Suppose you knew that after your natural death the human race would die out…

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Why do we laugh?

And why a cognitive neuroscientist says laughter deserves more research.

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How to topple a dictator

Is violent or non-violent protest more effective?

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The truth about marriage

And how your relationship may be less stable than you think.

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The fragility of choice

Where do our opinions come from and how easy is it for people to change them?

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Why do we find things disgusting?

Meet a ‘disgustologist’ who has been uncovering answers to our uneasy feelings

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Why living in the city could make you happier

What makes some cities more successful than others?

• 9 mins

Ubernomics

Does behaviour tracking help tech companies become better at saying sorry?

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Understanding emotions: Should we follow our hearts?

How noticing things in our bodies can help us read our feelings

• 9 mins

Big ideas: The body

David Edmonds discovers fascinating research on the human body

• 49 mins

How do we spot rogue cops?

Within every police force there are bad cops, but could there be a trick to spotting them

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The importance of fairness

Why it pays to be fair, and why people are less selfish than you think

• 9 mins

The science of sleep

What does sleep do for us, and what can go wrong if we don't get enough?

• 9 mins

Do cities need rules?

How does the way a city is run change its inhabitants' lives?

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The new normal

How Donald Trump is reshaping our ideas of normal behaviour

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The science of addiction

Why drug addicts want drugs – even when they don’t

• 9 mins

Big ideas: The city

Five big ideas that could change the way we think about cities

• 49 mins

Fighting pandemics

The 2020 pandemic has transformed our world, but it won’t be the last to do so

• 9 mins

Big ideas: The way we think

Five ideas challenging how we think about the world

• 49 mins