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ePODstemology

Medicine for intellectual boredom. Host Dr Mark Fabian of Cambridge University brings together an eclectic mix of creative young folk to discuss the most stimulating ideas at the knowledge frontier, from data governance to the metamodern cultural mode, and everything in between. The world's most thoughtful people, having a chat - and you're invited! So turn off your socials, throw away your popular science books, and get ready for some legit galaxy brain takes.

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Latest episode

AI in government

· Season 7, Episode 5 · 46 min · Show notes

Dr Aleksei Turobov is an Assistant Professor at the Bennett School of Public Policy. His research examines the critical gap between the global ambitions of AI policy and the practical realities of its implementation.

All episodes

  • AI in government

    · Season 7, Episode 5 · 46 min · Show notes

  • Eat your way to a better world

    · Season 7, Episode 4 · 1 hr 4 min · Show notes

  • Video games and the zeitgeist

    · Season 7, Episode 6 · 1 hr 8 min · Show notes

  • Metamodernism - culture after the end of history

    · Season 7, Episode 4 · 1 hr 5 min · Show notes

  • An insider's guide to the innovation ecosystem

    · Season 7, Episode 3 · 1 hr 2 min · Show notes

  • Data data everywhere yet no meaning to be found

    · Season 7, Episode 2 · 58 min · Show notes

  • Welcome to metamodernity - complexity science, meaning making, and the return of spirituality

    · Season 7, Episode 1 · 1 hr 5 min · Show notes

  • TL;DR Truth Bombs - The Essence of Aphorisms with James Geary

    · Season 6, Episode 9 · 1 hr 2 min · Show notes

  • Replication, preregistration, and open science – what’s all the fuss about?

    · Season 6, Episode 8 · 51 min · Show notes

  • Will EdTech change the university?

    · Season 6, Episode 7 · 1 hr · Show notes

  • Intimate stories of infidelity

    · Season 6, Episode 6 · 1 hr 2 min · Show notes

  • Decolonising development economics: learning from India

    · Season 6, Episode 5 · 59 min · Show notes

  • Beyond Happy: How to rethink happiness and find fulfilment

    · Season 6, Episode 4 · 1 hr 31 min · Show notes

  • Would you ever trust a bot?

    · Season 6, Episode 3 · 54 min · Show notes

  • How will Trump impact global development philanthropy?

    · Season 6, Episode 2 · 59 min · Show notes

  • How to get more climate policy legislated

    · Season 6, Episode 1 · 57 min · Show notes

  • Regenerating democracy with less polling and more deliberation

    · Season 5, Episode 10 · 1 hr 14 min · Show notes

  • Empowering mission driven bureaucrats to provide better public services

    · Season 5, Episode 9 · 1 hr 1 min · Show notes

  • Realising the potential of digital governance with Aaron Maniam

    · Season 5, Episode 8 · 58 min · Show notes

  • Evidence based ways to help your loved ones with eating disorders

    · Season 5, Episode 7 · 57 min · Show notes

  • How algorithms control workers

    · Season 5, Episode 6 · 1 hr 6 min · Show notes

  • Plastic not-so-fantastic: how to reduce packaging waste

    · Season 5, Episode 5 · 1 hr 2 min · Show notes

  • How machine learning is going to affect your life

    · Season 5, Episode 4 · 1 hr 3 min · Show notes

  • What's hot in sports science?

    · Season 5, Episode 3 · 58 min · Show notes

  • How to do urban regeneration right

    · Season 5, Episode 2 · 56 min · Show notes

  • Culture, Morality, and Economics in Reef Management by Local Communities

    · Season 5, Episode 1 · 55 min · Show notes

  • Copaganda - How reality TV shows about police affect criminal justice reform

    · Season 4, Episode 11 · 59 min · Show notes

  • How can we get more action on climate change?

    · Season 4, Episode 10 · 1 hr 1 min · Show notes

  • How to achieve democratic consolidation in Africa

    · Season 4, Episode 9 · 1 hr 3 min · Show notes

  • Measuring the Human

    · Season 4, Episode 8 · 1 hr 11 min · Show notes

  • Can we make the world a 'better' place with behavioural economics?

    · Season 4, Episode 7 · 1 hr 4 min · Show notes

  • Navigating decolonisation, religion, and gender in Zimbabwe

    · Season 4, Episode 6 · 1 hr · Show notes

  • The new contours of global inequality

    · Season 4, Episode 5 · 1 hr 2 min · Show notes

  • How to achieve workplace wellbeing under capitalism

    · Season 4, Episode 4 · 1 hr 37 min · Show notes

  • No more Panama papers - combatting illicit finance

    · Season 4, Episode 3 · 1 hr 1 min · Show notes

  • 'Woke' isn't a mind virus; it's generational change

    · Season 4, Episode 2 · 1 hr 6 min · Show notes

  • How does societal context affect human psychology?

    · Season 4, Episode 1 · 38 min · Show notes

  • How to revive left behind places

    · Season 3, Episode 12 · 1 hr 2 min · Show notes

  • The future of the factory

    · Season 3, Episode 11 · 1 hr 5 min · Show notes

  • What animals can teach us about consciousness

    · Season 3, Episode 10 · 1 hr 4 min · Show notes

  • The peculiarities of public health in Africa

    · Season 3, Episode 9 · 57 min · Show notes

  • How we can boost sustainability, equality, and health by reducing food waste

    · Season 3, Episode 8 · 57 min · Show notes

  • What even is empathy?

    · Season 3, Episode 7 · 1 hr 1 min · Show notes

  • Machine learning and the acceleration of discovery

    · Season 3, Episode 6 · 59 min · Show notes

  • Political science needs to get real about fake news

    · Season 3, Episode 5 · 52 min · Show notes

  • The big issues in macroeconomics

    · Season 3, Episode 4 · 1 hr 2 min · Show notes

  • The secular benefits of religious practices

    · Season 3, Episode 3 · 1 hr 9 min · Show notes

  • Social technologies of care for unlearning capitalism

    · Season 3, Episode 2 · 1 hr · Show notes

  • Everything you've ever wanted to know about migration policy

    · Season 3, Episode 1 · 1 hr 5 min · Show notes

  • An honest guide to wellbeing

    · Season 2, Episode 8 · 1 hr 24 min · Show notes

  • The nature, causes, and consequences of the far right

    · Season 2, Episode 5 · 57 min · Show notes

  • Why we need participatory governance in Infrastructure

    · Season 2, Episode 6 · 56 min · Show notes

  • What's the difference between 'prejudice' and statistical discrimination?

    · Season 2, Episode 4 · 1 hr 4 min · Show notes

  • The history of industrial policy for development

    · Season 2, Episode 3 · 1 hr 2 min · Show notes

  • What social science can learn from biology

    · Season 2, Episode 2 · 1 hr 5 min · Show notes

  • Dealing with Losers from the Climate Transition

    · Season 2, Episode 1 · 1 hr 2 min · Show notes

  • Economics and Statistics. Also why you should be Bayesian.

    · Season 1, Episode 8 · 1 hr 6 min · Show notes

  • Why passive data farming is good, actually

    · Season 1, Episode 7 · 1 hr 2 min · Show notes

  • Meaning in life according to science

    · Season 1, Episode 6 · 1 hr 4 min · Show notes

  • The New Feminine: Womanhood in the 21st century

    · Season 1, Episode 5 · 1 hr 10 min · Show notes

  • Taxation in the 21st Century

    · Season 1, Episode 4 · 1 hr 6 min · Show notes

  • Positivism and its Discontents: Why researchers need to talk to people

    · Season 1, Episode 3 · 52 min · Show notes

  • Why China got Rich and India Hasn't - The Political Economy of Asian Development

    · Season 1, Episode 2 · 1 hr 5 min · Show notes

  • Zoomers, Boomers, Millennials and why they hate each: The Intergenerational wars

    · Season 1, Episode 1 · 1 hr 6 min · Show notes