Jessamyn Fairfield
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401 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 30 Aug
Jessamyn Fairfield’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's considered very likely that basically by the end of the century, in 2100, we'll be looking at a slowdown of 42% to 58%, which would pretty much guarantee a collapse of the current.
Now, the thing is, the current has collapsed before.
And so the way that we understand how to deal with this actually involves looking back at the past and what happened previously.
One of my colleagues in Galway, Dr. Audrey Morley, studies this by looking at the records of ocean currents in the past.
And I think this is actually a space where Ireland could potentially be a leader in terms of both the science and the mitigation if we just pay attention to it and don't stick our heads in the sand.
Yeah.
And before we get to that story, Jonathan, can I ask you what you have for breakfast today?
You didn't have breakfast.
How did that make you feel?
That's fair.
I guess.
That makes sense.
That tracks.
And so this study, it's a new study from the University of Michigan, basically looking at whether people enjoy small talk as much as they think they will.
And there is, you know, there's a type of person who's like, I don't like small talk.
Like, I just want to get really intense, really deep right away.
And so they basically took about 1,800 people.
They asked them to predict their enjoyment of specific topics of conversation and
and then put them in pairs, had them talk about like a specific thing, and asked them afterwards to rate their enjoyment of the conversation.
And I really loved the list of small talk topics that they had for this, including things like weather, stock market, vegan diets, Pokemon, and onions.
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