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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook: Leadership Special, with Francine Lacqua (Part Two)
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook: Leadership Special, with Francine Lacqua (Part One)
How Did the Americas Transform Renaissance England? With Lauren Working
Who Really Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipeline? With Bojan Pancevski
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Hotels with History | Waldorf Astoria, New York
Life and Death in the KGB, with The Rest is Classified’s Gordon Corera (Part Two)
Life and Death in the KGB, with The Rest is Classified’s Gordon Corera (Part One)
How Will a New Era of Drugs Shape Our World? With Kojo Koram
The Age of Intelligence: Live in Partnership with IBM
How Do Hormones Shape the Way We Feel, Think and Age? With Dr Saira Hameed
Why Does It Sometimes Pay to Be a Chicken? With Professor Michael Wooldridge
How does DNA Shape Our World? With Professor Turi King
Do We Have The Right To Die? With Lady Hale and Rowan Williams (Part Two)
Do We Have The Right To Die? With Lady Hale and Rowan Williams (Part One)
An Evening with Douglas Stuart (Part Two)
An Evening with Douglas Stuart (Part One)
How To Win a Trade War, with Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown
How To Kill A Language, with Sophia Smith Galer (Part Two)
How To Kill A Language, with Sophia Smith Galer (Part One)
The Secret Life of Our Organs and How They Keep us Healthy, with Dr Giulia Enders
Chasing Aliens, with Jon Ronson and Daniel Lavelle (Part Two)
Chasing Aliens, with Jon Ronson and Daniel Lavelle (Part One)
Has Far-Right Politics Entered The Mainstream in the UK? With Daniel Trilling
Love, Loss and Mourning Paul Auster, with Siri Hustvedt
What Would Happen If We Met Aliens? With Neil deGrasse Tyson
London Falling: Patrick Radden Keefe on How Money, Power and Corruption Shape Our City, with Emily Maitlis (Part Two)
London Falling: Patrick Radden Keefe on How Money, Power and Corruption Shape Our City, with Emily Maitlis (Part One)
What Do We Ask Google, and What Does It Tell Us About Human Nature? With Simon Rogers
How Is Predictive AI Shaping Our World? With AI Philosopher Carissa Véliz
Weimar and Hitler: How did fascism take hold in Germany’s historic town? With Katja Hoyer
An Evening with Kae Tempest (Part Two)
An Evening with Kae Tempest (Part One)
What Will Trigger the Next World War? With Peter Apps
Lena Dunham: Famesick, with Dolly Alderton (Part Two)
Lena Dunham: Famesick, with Dolly Alderton (Part One)
The Age of Growth: Live in Partnership with IBM
Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part Two)
Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part One)
How Does Chemistry Shape our World? With Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu
Why Did Elite Cambridge Graduates Become Soviet Spies? Revisiting the Cambridge Five, with Antonia Senior
How Will the Climate Crisis Reshape Global Politics? With Former Diplomat and Author, Arthur Snell
Is There a Crisis of Overdiagnosis in Modern Medicine? With Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan
How Has Translation Transformed Shakespeare? With Daniel Hahn
Should You Be Talking To AI? with Jamie Bartlett
Who Are Renoir’s Mystery Girls? With Catherine Ostler
Stalin vs Trotsky: The Assassination That Changed History, with Josh Ireland
Can Discomfort Be the Key to a Better Life? With Ken Rideout
S1 Ep 3411How and Why did Sexual Reproduction Evolve on our Planet? With Dr Lixing Sun
Before sex evolved on our planet, two billion years ago, all reproduction happened asexually. So why and how did sexual reproduction evolve? Dr Lixing Sun is Distinguished Research Professor in behavior and evolution at Central Washington University. In a new book, On the Origin of Sex, he explores the fascinating, varied and complex ways reproduction happens across the natural world: from whiptail lizards, capable of immaculate conception, to clownfish and bearded dragons who regularly switch gender roles. In this episode he sat down with Dr Güneş Taylor to explore the biological advantages of sexual reproduction, the differences between sex and gender and the variety of ways in which our planet is populated. On The Origin of Sex: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Reproduction by Dr Lixing Sun, is available now online and in stores. If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full conversations, plus all of our Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events ... Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series … Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. … Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices