第2847期:The sportswriter
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I'm talking to Simon. Hi Simon. Hi.我正在和西蒙说话。嗨，西蒙。嗨。Who is hoping to ...
第2846期:Thinking with Adam Grant
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hey, WorkLifers, it's Adam here, and I have some exciting news.嘿，WorkLifers，我是 Adam，有个...
第2845期:Fixable
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You know that saying, move fast and break things? I do. Well, we say move fast and fix things, becau...
第2844期:Customer loyalty
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We belong to an organisation that puts you in touch with pet-sitters when you go away. People who ca...
第2843期:Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Iceland has no shortage of natural dangers – volcanic eruptions, glacial floods, scaldingly hot sp...
第2842期:Zone zero: Does no-effort exercise have benefits
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"No pain no gain!" That's a mindset applied to many things – from working long hours when starting...
第2841期:The best restaurant in London
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking about a restaurant. A restaurant that became the top-rated restaurant in London. Excep...
第2840期:Riding in a driverless taxi
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hey, what's up guys, MKBHD here, still in Las Vegas, and I've seen a lot of self-driving tech so far...
第2839期:One euro homes
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine you're the mayor of a small, rural town. Over the years the houses have become empty as peop...
第2838期:The vegan market
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the UK, over 3 million people are vegetarian. That's 7% of the population. And in addition to tha...
第2837期:Michelin stars
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Very recently, a restaurant in Manchester, in the north-west of England, won the city's first Michel...
第2836期:What insects can teach surgeons
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sawflies are named after the saw-like organ used by the females to lay eggs in plants. The insects w...
第2835期:The meat eaters
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When you hear the word 'carnivore', do you think of lions and bears and sharks, or humans? Steak for...
第2834期:Sponsorship
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sporting events and organisations have long looked to sponsorship for a way of surviving. For many, ...
第2833期:Rat populations rise in cities
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The British Pest Control Association says its members have recorded an increase in complaints about ...
第2832期:Why some people believe AI is human
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After MIT Professor Joseph Weizenbaum created the chatbot Eliza, he became concerned that people who...
第2831期:Stock market
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For our last business podcast, we talked about the big PLCs, the companies traded on the stock excha...
第2830期:Company
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
People often ask me what we do, and I reply by saying we have an internet business. But we don't act...
第2830a期:Product Placement
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking about product placement.我们在谈植入式广告。Product placement, also known as...
第2829期:Instagram
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking about Instagram and why it's a useful platform for businesses. You know my first quest...
第2828期:Underground
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In an underground car park in Paris, I encountered something I didn't expect. I had to wipe the spor...
第2827期:Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Huntington's is one of the most brutal and devastating of all diseases. It's caused by a faulty gene...
第2826期:The way you move may be as unique as your fingerprint
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been alone in a room, heard someone coming, and been able to identify who it was based...
第2825期:E-business means business
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Things turned upside down for many businesses earlier this year. We're looking at how two companies ...
第2824期:Digital nomads
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we moved to Portugal, it was the third country that we had lived in while working on our podcas...
第2823期:Stand out
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My friend Anne says that when her children were very small and they received presents, it was the pa...
第2822期:Wine decline
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're looking at the wine industry. Yeah, we're looking at two countries whose wine industries have ...
第2821期:Not in front of the children
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since TV advertising began, there has always been food adverts aimed at children. Yes, sweets, choco...
第2820期:The human touch
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It has been suggested that one in three jobs that exist today will eventually be done by smart machi...
第2819期:What a waste
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A global level study by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations says that one t...
第2818期:The weirdest stuff orbiting Earth
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In July of 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left the first human footprints on the moon. They al...
第2817期:The Dragons' Den
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking about The Dragon's Den.我们今天要谈的是《龙穴》（The Dragon’s Den）这...
第2816期:Can we trust the supermarkets?
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking about marketing terms used on food products and deciding if they are officially recogn...
第2818a期:Patreon
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we first started podcasting many, many years ago, other podcasters who didn't have worksheets t...
第2815期:The business world today
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking about how technology has really changed the face of business. 我们在谈论技术...
第2814期:AI to predict your health in the future
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nasa's Perseverance Rover has spent the past four years exploring an area of Mars called the Jezero ...
第2813期:AI to predict your health in the future
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The researchers describe this artificial intelligence model as like a weather forecast for your heal...
第2812期:What are the chances of an asteroid hitting you?
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An asteroid ended the age of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Could something as catastrophic as ...
第2811期:Is your dog reading your mind?
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows that dogs are supposed to be our best friends. Could it be that they know what we are...
第2810期:How exactly do inhalers work?(4)
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The real beauty of inhalers is how they get these medications into your lungs. They work by suspendi...
第2809期:How exactly do inhalers work?(3)
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In chronic bronchitis, the airway’s lining is inflamed and produces more mucus to trap incoming sm...
第2808期:How exactly do inhalers work?(2)
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So how do they work? When you take a breath, air travels through your lungs using tubes called airwa...
第2807期:How exactly do inhalers work?(1)
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Early 20th century writer, Marcel Proust, finished his magnum opus “In Search of Lost Time” from...
第2806期:Energy drinks to be banned for under-16s in England
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The major supermarkets have imposed their own voluntary ban on selling high-caffeine drinks to the u...
第2805期:Life lessons learnt from pocket money
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How much pocket money did you get as a child, if any? Was it a regular, weekly allowance, or just oc...
第2804期:Your phone’s camera isn’t as good as you think(2)
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Simply put, to make better digital cameras, you need image sensors with higher numbers of larger pho...
第2803期:Your phone’s camera isn’t as good as you think(1)
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the Visualphone VP210 hit the market in 1999, it advertised a never-before-seen feature: a came...
第2802期:This TED Talk is full of bad ideas(5)
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So we ended up taking the car back, it was no longer functional, and we decided to place it in an ar...
第2801期:This TED Talk is full of bad idea
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When you open Pandora's box of bad ideas, clearly the sky's the limit. So let's keep pushing it. I g...
第2800期:This TED Talk is full of bad ideas(3)
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I'm glad you guys think it's funny. I thought it was horrifying. So it wasn't enough for us to just ...
第2799期:This TED Talk is full of bad ideas(2)
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So you've probably figured out by now that I'm not actually here to sell you keys to a car. Today I'...
第2798期:This TED Talk is full of bad ideas(1)
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Good morning everyone. My name is Gabe. I'm a traveling car salesman. So today, I'm here to sell you...
第2797期:The emerging science of finding critical metals(4)
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Once again, there are many possibilities, all consistent with the data. Some with a lot more metal, ...
第2796期:The emerging science of finding critical metals(3)
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The incumbent industry deals with this problem by ignoring it. They pick one possible answer and act...
第2795期:The emerging science of finding critical metals(2)
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So we need to look deeper. Controversially, we've been taught that these materials will run out. We ...
第2794期:The emerging science of finding critical metals(1)
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I was born and raised in Zambia, a country known for its rich copper mining history. Alignment of th...
Is it really that bad to eat cookie dough?
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Somewhere on a farm in Iowa in 2010, a hen lays an egg. In just a few short weeks, this egg will be ...
第2793期:Spiky dinosaur discovery
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The animal is covered in spikes all over its back including some that are one metre long emerging fr...
第2792期:How is ginger good for us?
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's normal for our bodies to not always be in tip-top condition, whether we catch the flu, have ach...
第2791期:What happens when your job is just too boring?
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that having too much work and too much stress can lead to burnout, but did you know that...
第2790期:AI could fill gaps in our knowledge of Ancient Rome
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Historians face many problems in piecing together the past from ancient inscriptions. They're usuall...
第2789期:The Life-saving Secrets In Your Baby(5)
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I also think there's a systematic or institutional resistance, right? Because genomics is thetipof t...
第2788期:The Life-saving Secrets In Your Baby(4)
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
But that system is overburdened, under-resourced, and since 2008, it's only added nine new condition...
第2787期:The Life-saving Secrets In Your Baby(3)
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me let you hear from a couple of the BabySeq mothers who've gone through this and hear what they...
第2786期:The Life-saving Secrets In Your Baby(2)
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
People were aghast. They thought we were going to do terrible medical things to these children. They...
第2785期:The Life-saving Secrets In Your Baby(1)
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So on April 22, 2015, a four-day-old baby girl in Boston, let's call her baby Maria, became the firs...
第2784期:Record warm seas help to bring extraordinary new species
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The data shows the average surface temperature of UK waters in the seven months to the end of July w...
第2783期:Britain celebrates 200-year anniversary of trains
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The railway that got the world on track." On the 27 September 1825, crowds gathered in a small mark...
第2782期:How to end factory farming(4)
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take the chick killing. Innovators have developed in-ovo sexing technology that allows the egg indus...
第2781期:How to end factory farming(3)
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
And this. This is a trash can full of live baby chicks. I honestly didn't believe this one when I fi...
第2780期:How to end factory farming(2)
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Honestly, the slaughterhouse wasn't as bad as I'd expected. It was the state of the animals arriving...
第2779期:How to end factory farming(1)
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I want to talk with you of the most important moral issues we never talk about. And that's fa...
第2778期:Female friendship important to gorillas
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Moving from one group to another is something that shapes both gorilla and human society. To underst...
第2777期:Is food colouring bad for you?
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Food colouring is difficult to avoid. From bright orange cheesy crisps to frosted cakes, and even pe...
第2776期:How we got hooked on credit cards(4)
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This movement was dealt a devastating blow in 1968, when the Supreme Court removed the cap on state ...
第2775期:How we got hooked on credit cards(3)
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Despite these initial losses, US banks remained devoted to credit cards. At this time, it was illega...
第2774期:How we got hooked on credit cards(2)
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
And the banks profited from small fees on each transaction. But soon, banks found another way to mak...
第2773期:How we got hooked on credit cards(1)
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1949, businessman Frank McNamara was about to pay for dinner when he realized something terrible:...
第2772期:How I turned frustration into creative success(2)
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
People got very upset. And I got yelled at a lot. Very gently. A lot about "I hope your pillow is wa...
第2771期:How I turned frustration into creative success(1)
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So for many years I've been doing computer art, geometric art with pen and paper on plotters. I writ...
第2770期:Ancient Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The images reveal intricate details in the ancient tattoos, which picture leopards, a stag, a rooste...
第2769期:A poem that AI will never understand(3)
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The work towards a better world is not automated.通往更美好世界的努力，并不是自动化...
第2768期:A poem that AI will never understand(2)
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The displaced children without homes do not cry mechanical tears.无家可归的流离儿童流下的...
第2767期:A poem that AI will never understand(1)
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I fill my empty 3 ams with spineless phone scrolls, Text abbreviations,And uni-human conversations. ...
The dangers of buffets
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The dizzying variety of options, the amazing range of flavours, and for some of us, the&nb...
第2766期:Let young people tell their stories(4)
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So ZeroSeHero started. We ran thousands of polls, we ran many surveys, we trained thousands of citiz...
第2765期:Let young people tell their stories(3)
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
But like I said, Ashwini saw this as more than just a medical crisis. He wanted to do so much more f...
第2764期:Let young people tell their stories(2)
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every single day, I would train them on how to write better. But what they were writing about was ac...
第2763期:Let young people tell their stories(1)
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2008, when I was 17, I felt invisible. And not like Harry Potter with an invisibility cloak. I ac...
第2762期:The science of making fruits and veggies last longer(5)
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So let's just say that's not what we expected when we first approached them to talk about extending ...
第2761期:The science of making fruits and veggies last longer(4)
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So thinking about replacing a standard waxing step, for example.比如说，可以考虑用这种方...
第2760期:The science of making fruits and veggies last longer(3)
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So we took a test batch of material that we made using leftover tomato peels, since those are rich i...
第2759期:The science of making fruits and veggies last longer(2)
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
And then all of this leads to a pretty narrow set of fruits and vegetables that are available in sto...
第2758期:The science of making fruits and veggies last longer(1)
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When you pick a piece of fruit off a tree, it's like a ticking time bomb. It's literally this living...
第2757期:Just 7,000 steps a day cuts health risks, study says
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you've got a phone or a fitness tracker, you're probably checking your steps each day. Reach 10,0...
第2756期:How can restaurants earn a Michelin star?
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do rubber tyres have to do with delicious food? The answer lies in the story of the Michelin br...
第2755期:£50m renovation for historic Kew glass house
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kew's Palm House is a wonder of the Victorian age. When it opened in 1848, it was the...
第2754期:Can we trust technology in sport?
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Use of technology in sports is supposed to be able to provide accurate and instant feedback, with be...
第2753期:The hidden logic of human harmony(5)
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The logic of common knowledge and social relationships explains why we all deplore the hypocrisy and...
第2752期:The hidden logic of human harmony(4)
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Or laughter, where an unignorable noise can expose the common assumptions among everyone who gets th...