China wants more people to eat potatoes – how changing national diets could help fix our global food crisis – Podcast
China began promoting potatoes as a staple in 2015 in an effort to combat food insecurity. chinahbzyg via Shutterstock How…
China wants more people to eat potatoes – how changing national diets could help fix our global food crisis. Podcast
China began promoting potatoes as a staple in 2015 in an effort to combat food insecurity. chinahbzyg via Shutterstock How…
As young people in rich countries drink less alcohol, elsewhere youth drinking is on the rise – podcast
Drinking is going out of fashion among young people in some parts of the world, but not others. Kzenon via…
Unlocking new clues to how dementia and Alzheimer’s work in the brain – Uncharted Brain podcast series
Around the world 55 million people live with dementia. Researchers are still looking for answers on what causes it and…
Do viruses play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s? Uncharted Brain podcast part 3
There are many competing theories about what causes Alzheimers disease. For more than 30 years, Ruth Itzhaki has been accumulating…
Uncharted Brain: Decoding Dementia – introducing a new podcast series
Uncharted Brain: Decoding Dementia is a new podcast series from The Conversation. Uncharted Brain: Decoding Dementia is a new podcast…
South African scientists on the inside story of discovering omicron – and what their experience offers the world about future variants. Podcast
After South African scientists sounded the alarm about the new omicron variant, countries around the world closed their borders. Kim…
COVID-19: where does the World Health Organization go from here? – podcast
In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, three experts on global health explain why COVID-19 is a moment of…
Adult ADHD: What it is, how to treat it and why medicine ignored it for so long – podcast
Thanks to a recent surge in interest in adult ADHD, researchers are learning more about how ADHD affects the lives…
Planet pharma: what the industry got out of COVID – podcast
After nearly two years of COVID, how is the pharmaceutical industry faring? In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we…
India: why it’s so hard to get a coronavirus vaccine
Waiting for a vaccine in Mumbai in late April. Divyakant Solanki/EPA This is a transcript of episode 15 of The…