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Can We Control the Weather?
Can We Control the Weather? Show Notes Can We Control the Weather? In this episode Tim Dowling speaks with two experts on the history of weather control, Dr Katherine Harper author of Make it Rain: State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth Century America and Jim Fleming author of Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History…
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Has The Internet Broken Copyright?
Has The Internet Broken Copyright? Tim Dowling speaks with Law Professor Jennifer Jenkins who is Director of The Center for the Study of the Public Domain, about the confusing and messy state of copyright law. He also speaks with veteran youtuber Tom Scott on how the internet and youtube in particular have broken copyright.
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Are we facing a Bananapocalypse?
Are we facing a Bananapocalypse? Tim Dowling speaks with Dr Chris Cockel from Kew Botanical Gardens about the problems facing the Cavendish banana crop and a Professor from the Queensland University of Technology about his work to genetically modify the banana, all trying to answer the questions, how we lost the Gros Michel banana? Will…
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WTF is an NFT?
WTF is an NFT? NFTs experienced a huge boom earlier this year particularly after artist Beeple sold his artwork for $69 million, but his artwork was just a jpeg available for everyone to see. So what is an NFT? And why are they selling for so much? Tim Dowling talks to billionaire Mark Cuban, journalist…
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Why Am I Left-Handed?
Why Am I Left-Handed? Tim Dowling finds out what makes people left-handed. Also what advantages and disadvantages left-handedness can bring. With Professor Chris McManus and Ed Wright. Transcript Tim Dowling 0:18 Hello, and welcome to Insult My Intelligence. In today’s episode, we investigate left handedness, why it exists? And whether being left handed is…