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REBROADCAST #343: Cannabis research: The state of the science in an age of weed liberalization

Psychiatrist and clinical researcher Prof David Castle discusses how cannabis represents both a public health risk and a wide-ranging therap...

Dec 28, 2017
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REBROADCAST #342: Dynamics of scandal: On facilitating, denying and covering up institutional child sex abuse

In this rebroadcast episode, sociologist Prof Chris Greer explores the often murky agendas of organisations, mainstream and social media, an...

Dec 14, 2017
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REBROADCAST #341: Fume with a view: Consumer products and your indoor air quality

In this rebroadcast episode, civil and environmental engineer Prof Anne Steinemann outlines the causes and consequences of poor indoor air q...

Nov 30, 2017
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REBROADCAST #334: From pole to pole: New research into treating bipolar disorder

In this rebroadcast episode, research psychiatrist Prof Allan Young discusses bipolar disorder, and examines leading edge research into find...

Nov 17, 2017
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#406: Treaty fatigue: International law meets the new globalized nationalism

International Court of Justice jurist James Crawford on the diminishing appetite of nation states to join new international agreements or re...

Oct 23, 2017
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#405: What are the keys to a successful urban innovation district?

Urban thinker Julie Wagner describes how so-called innovation districts in cities around the world evolve or are planned, and how their reli...

Oct 19, 2017
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#404: Getting cancer care to better reflect patients' lived experience

How does a cancer patient's experience of illness help to inform their treatment? Clinical and research oncologist Associate Professor Lidia...

Oct 5, 2017
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#403: Copping it globally: The rise and reach of transnational policing

Criminologist Ben Bowling on how policing is increasingly crossing national borders, chasing globalized crime and cyber offenses, and raisin...

Sep 21, 2017
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#402: Silent killer: Coming to grips with an emerging epidemic of viral hepatitis

Infectious diseases expert and epidemiologist Dr Ben Cowie explains why viral hepatitis is fast becoming a hidden epidemic with significant...

Sep 7, 2017
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#401: Why feeling pain is key to our happiness

Research psychologist Brock Bastian argues that a willingness to experience pain is crucial to our pursuit of genuine happiness, and that ou...

Aug 24, 2017
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#400: Phantom democracies: John Keane on the New Global Despotism

Political scientist and author John Keane on the recent proliferation of corrupt political regimes that employ democratic rhetoric, staged e...

Aug 10, 2017
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#399: How attitudes disable: Rethinking our assumptions about people with impairments

Social epidemiologist Prof. Eric Emerson argues that "disability" and "being disabled" really refer to the effects of social and economic ma...

Jul 27, 2017
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#398: The baby makers: The science behind healthier embryos and better IVF

Reproductive biologist Professor David Gardner explains what we're still learning about healthy embryo development, how it's being applied t...

Jul 13, 2017
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#397: Embracing the finite: Making our way in an era of dwindling natural resources

Ecologist Prof. Peter Vitousek explores how living in the Anthropocene, a time in which human activity has become the key driver of planetar...

Jun 29, 2017
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#396: Rivers as persons: What it means to give legal rights to nature

Environmental law researcher Erin O'Donnell and economist Julia Talbot-Jones explain what's behind recent moves to give legal personhood to...

Jun 15, 2017
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#395: China in Africa: Who benefits?

Economist Dr Lauren Johnston examines the evolving political and economic relationships between China and Africa, and how the East Asia gian...

Jun 1, 2017
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#394: What's killing women? Sex disparity and the shifting landscape of age-related disease

Population health researcher Professor Cassandra Szoeke outlines what ails women as they grow older, how men differ from women in age-relate...

May 18, 2017
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#393: Antagonize your ageing: The science behind living healthier for longer

Geriatrician Professor Andrea Maier describes what happens to our cells as we age, and explains the causes of age-related diseases. She also...

May 4, 2017
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#392: Feeding the 9 billion: Inconvenient truths about global food security

Sustainable agriculture expert Prof Tim Reeves discusses the profound changes required in agricultural practice, public policy and consumer...

Apr 20, 2017
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#391: Not the highest bidder: China’s crony capitalism and the large scale looting of public assets

Governance expert Prof Minxin Pei describes how collusion between China’s political and business elites have resulted in the privatization o...

Apr 6, 2017
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