Christmas Specials
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From star to power
Why Tamil movie heroes become politicians
Fan clubs can quickly become get-out-the-vote operations
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I’m a celebrity...Get me out of here!
How the young Winston Churchill escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp
And what his unlikely tale reveals about imperialism
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The economics of technology
A short history of tractors in English
What the tractor and the horse tell you about generative AI
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In kob we trust
On safari in South Sudan, one of the world’s most dangerous countries
The planet’s biggest conservation project is in its least developed nation
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The green man’s burden
What responsibilities do individuals have to stop climate change?
The nature of climate change makes that a tricky question
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A rush for colourless gold
Meet the boffins and buccaneers drilling for hydrogen
The search is on for a clean fuel that could one day replace oil
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How to find your way in the Pacific
Oceania’s wayfinding skills
The art of getting a vessel and its occupants from one place on a vast ocean to another
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Pacific pathfinders
The best sailors in the world
Why the vaka, vehicle for the extraordinary story of the peopling of Oceania, is enjoying a revival
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Rosemont, Illinois
Inside the last true political machine in America
What a town is like when one family runs everything
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Hollywood and AI
AI is stalking the last lions of Hollywood
The first actors to lose their jobs to artificial intelligence are four-legged
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Desert island dismal science
Why economists love “Robinson Crusoe”
The classic yarn of a shipwrecked sailor reveals a lot about scarcity
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Free speech, gay rights and waterfowl
A tale of penguins and prejudice is a parable of modern America
When two male penguins hatched an egg in Central Park, they set off an enduring controversy