ePODstemology

By Mark Fabian

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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. Thanks to Keith Spangle for the spaceship cat avatar https://www.deviantart.com/keithspangle

Episode Date
TL;DR Truth Bombs - The Essence of Aphorisms with James Geary
Nov 10, 2025
Replication, preregistration, and open science – what’s all the fuss about?
Oct 22, 2025
Will EdTech change the university?
Jun 23, 2025
Intimate stories of infidelity
May 19, 2025
Decolonising development economics: learning from India
Apr 28, 2025
Beyond Happy: How to rethink happiness and find fulfilment
Apr 09, 2025
Would you ever trust a bot?
Mar 26, 2025
How will Trump impact global development philanthropy?
Feb 14, 2025
How to get more climate policy legislated
Jan 16, 2025
Regenerating democracy with less polling and more deliberation
Nov 14, 2024
Empowering mission driven bureaucrats to provide better public services
Oct 17, 2024
Realising the potential of digital governance with Aaron Maniam
Sep 11, 2024
Evidence based ways to help your loved ones with eating disorders
Aug 21, 2024
How algorithms control workers
Jul 15, 2024
Plastic not-so-fantastic: how to reduce packaging waste
May 10, 2024
How machine learning is going to affect your life
Apr 18, 2024
What's hot in sports science?
Mar 19, 2024
How to do urban regeneration right
Jan 31, 2024
Culture, Morality, and Economics in Reef Management by Local Communities
Jan 09, 2024
Copaganda - How reality TV shows about police affect criminal justice reform
Nov 22, 2023
How can we get more action on climate change?
Oct 05, 2023
How to achieve democratic consolidation in Africa
Sep 21, 2023
Measuring the Human
Aug 29, 2023
Can we make the world a 'better' place with behavioural economics?
Aug 14, 2023
Navigating decolonisation, religion, and gender in Zimbabwe
Jul 21, 2023
The new contours of global inequality
Jul 06, 2023
How to achieve workplace wellbeing under capitalism
May 08, 2023
No more Panama papers - combatting illicit finance
May 07, 2023
'Woke' isn't a mind virus; it's generational change
Mar 27, 2023
How does societal context affect human psychology?
Mar 07, 2023
How to revive left behind places
Aug 01, 2022
The future of the factory
Jul 13, 2022
What animals can teach us about consciousness
Jun 18, 2022
The peculiarities of public health in Africa
May 30, 2022
How we can boost sustainability, equality, and health by reducing food waste
May 18, 2022
What even is empathy?
May 02, 2022
Machine learning and the acceleration of discovery
Apr 19, 2022
Political science needs to get real about fake news
Mar 30, 2022
The big issues in macroeconomics
Mar 16, 2022
The secular benefits of religious practices
Mar 02, 2022
Social technologies of care for unlearning capitalism
Feb 13, 2022
Everything you've ever wanted to know about migration policy
Jan 31, 2022
An honest guide to wellbeing
Dec 22, 2021
Why we need participatory governance in Infrastructure
Nov 21, 2021
The nature, causes, and consequences of the far right
Nov 21, 2021
What's the difference between 'prejudice' and statistical discrimination?
Oct 29, 2021
The history of industrial policy for development
Oct 16, 2021
What social science can learn from biology
Sep 16, 2021
Dealing with Losers from the Climate Transition
Sep 01, 2021
Economics and Statistics. Also why you should be Bayesian.
Jul 29, 2021
Why passive data farming is good, actually
Jul 21, 2021
Meaning in life according to science
Jun 27, 2021
The New Feminine: Womanhood in the 21st century
Jun 13, 2021
Taxation in the 21st Century
May 30, 2021
Positivism and its Discontents: Why researchers need to talk to people
May 16, 2021
Why China got Rich and India Hasn't - The Political Economy of Asian Development
May 02, 2021
Zoomers, Boomers, Millennials and why they hate each: The Intergenerational wars
Apr 21, 2021