Moving the post goals: Musk’s British-politics meddling

2024-12-04

Are young people today stuck in their teenage years? In a book published in 2024, one author argues that they are. Is he right?

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2024-11-21

AI is driving a transformation across all fields of science, from developing drugs for incurable diseases and improving the understanding of animal communication to self-driving labs. Could this prompt a new golden age of discovery?

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00:00 – How AI is revolutionising science
02:53 – Drug discovery
04:31 – AlphaFold
05:30 – Adoption of AI in science
07:08 – Animal communication
09:26 – Scientific fraud
11:03 – Self-driving labs
14:36 – Future of AI in science

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2024-10-11

Britain’s Labour Party came to power promising to restore order and stability. Our correspondent explains whether its rocky start (https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/10/07/the-sue-gray-saga-casts-doubt-on-keir-starmers-managerial-chops?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) exposes a bigger political problem. Why the issue of abortion could swing voters in Nevada (https://www.economist.com/interactive/us-2024-election/prediction-model/president/nevada?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) (9:44). And remembering the life of Pearl Harbour

2024-09-27

The Philadelphi Corridor— a narrow area along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt—has become the latest block in reaching a ceasefire. Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, says the presence of Israeli troops is crucial—but his generals disagree

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2024-09-23

Are war crimes being committed in the war in Sudan? We analyse open-source intelligence to investigate the allegations coming from the city of el-Fasher in Darfur.

“Hell on earth”: satellite images document the siege of a Sudanese city: https://econ.st/3XI7PNU

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2024-09-14

How do you detoxify a Nazi monument? Do you tear it down and start over, or memorialise it and acknowledge past sins?

Vendeline von Bredow visits the Die Das academy in Saaleck, a place where west (Germany) meets east, past meets present, and history is contested.

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2024-07-22

Joe Biden has at last succumbed to the pressure (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/07/21/joe-biden-has-given-democrats-a-second-chance-to-win-the-white-house?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) to step aside and has endorsed his vice-president, Kamala Harris. We ask how things should progress from this extraordinary moment. India could be better run if power were devolved from the national government. The solution? Create lots of new states

2024-07-17

If you don’t have enough food in the first 1,000 days of your life, your brain may never reach its full potential. Our correspondent discusses what better nutrition (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/07/11/how-to-raise-the-worlds-iq?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listener) would mean for the world. Undersea cables are the arteries of our telecommunications system, but that also makes them vulnerable (https://www.economist.com/international/2024/07/11/how-china-and-russia-could-hobble-the-internet?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) (9:13).