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The Era Of Climate Change Is Here - And This Is Our Only Way Out. With Prof. Bill McKibben

October 12, 2026 · 50 min

Bill McKibben is someone I've been wanting on the pod for ages - he's not only one of the most celebrated environmentalists alive, but is also widely credited as having written the first ever book on climate change for a general audience…
Asylums, Lobotomies and ECTs - The Horrifying History of Mental Illness “Cures.” With Prof. Andrew Scull

September 30, 2026 · 1 hr 39 min

What do lunatic asylums, lobotomies and electroconvulsive therapy have in common? They were all desperate attempts to cure mental illness. Long before the advent of pharmacology, "maverick" psychiatrists proposed different theories on what…
Hitler Dismantled Democracy In Just 8 Weeks - Here's How... With Prof. Timothy Ryback

September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

We always assume Hitler forced his way into the Chancellor's office and then single-handedly ended the Weimar Republic, ushering in his horrific dictatorship that would plunge Europe into WWII. It turns out that wasn't the case... at all…
Our Food Systems Are Unstable - It's About To Get Worse. With Prof. Tim Benton

September 14, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

We've all noticed that food prices keep going up without an end in sight. Couple that with the increasingly dramatic effects of climate change and a world that's increasingly unstable, and you've got a legitimate crisis on your hands…
"AI Will Be The Last Mistake Humanity Ever Makes..." With Prof. David Krueger

September 3, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

2026 has been a groundbreaking year for AI development - frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have not only reached frightening capability levels, but like the Hugging Face incident illustrates, they have also began to act…

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Staying Healthy In The Age Of The Obesity Epidemic. With Dr. Stephan Guyenet

August 26, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

Most of us have probably wanted to lose some weight at some point or another, only to find out it's much easier said than done. And even if we actually managed to hit our goal, maintaining this new weight became all but impossible. Why is…
The Future Is Chinese - Here's Why. With Prof. Steve Keen

August 14, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

It's no secret that the West is in terminal decline, while China continues to grow and is currently on the verge of overtaking the US as the biggest economy on the planet. Mainstream economics tells us that's impossible, since we…
Are We Losing the Climate Change Fight? With Prof. Michael Mann

August 9, 2026 · 45 min

Michael Mann is a Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Our Fragile Moment. He's also one of the most renowned climatologists in the world - and that's why I…
Why AI Won't Replace Workers, But Will Crash The Economy. With Cory Doctorow

July 28, 2026 · 49 min

I'm super stoked to welcome back the legendary blogger, journalist and author of Enshittification, Cory Doctorow. This time around we tackle his latest book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial…
What The Japanese Thought Of The First Westerners... And Vice Versa. With dr. Christopher Harding

July 18, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

I'm super happy to welcome dr. Christopher Harding, lecturer in Asian history at the University of Edinburgh, back to the show, to have a chat about his amazing upcoming book, "Barbarians: The First Century of European Encounter with…
What Were The Crusades Like From The Muslim Side? With Prof. Nicholas Morton

July 1, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

Medieval historian and champion of the podcast, Prof. Nicholas Morton (from Nottingham Trent University) is back on the pod to talk about the feverish history of the Crusades - only this time, we explore the subject from the perspective of…
The Wild Lives of Nigerian Romance Scammers | Carlos Barragan

June 18, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

In 2015, Carlos Barragan, a young Spanish journalist working for The New York Times, received a surprise - his mother, having long being single, told him she finally met somebody on Tinder. The man's name was Brian and he was an American…

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About the show

Deep-dive conversations with the world's leading minds. European host Zaza looks beyond the mainstream to explore history, technology, philosophy, psychology, and science.