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第2852期:New UK award for children's fiction open to global author
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This new prize aims to celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children aged eight to 12 years old. It will be open to authors from around the wor...
第2851期:Do we give weight too much weight?
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take your height in metres, square it, then divide it by your weight in kilograms. That's how you calculate your body mass index, or BMI. If it's betw...
第2850期:The artisan economy
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're in the midst of a craft revolution. We're seeing explosive growth in many consumer products categories. There is no one definition, I would say,...
第2849期:The four-day week
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's becoming increasingly popular for businesses to only accept payments by card. Yes. London's bus network has been cashless since 2014.越来越多...
第2848期:The four-day week
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back in March 2018, an insurance company from New Zealand started a landmark trial with its company staff. It decided to trial a four-day working week...
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 become a full-time freelance sports writer. Am I r...
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，有个令人兴奋的消息要告诉你们。Last year...
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, because in our experience, speed and fixing go hand in ...
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 can look after your house and animals while you're o...
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 springs and bitterly cold winters. But it is at leas...
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 a new business, to studying hard for an important...
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. Except that the restaurant was a fake.我们要谈的是...
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 here at CES, like if you walk through any of the ...
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 people move to the city for employment. An earthquake ...
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 that, a further 600,000 people, less than 2% of the p...
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 Michelin star in 40 years. We talk about the Michelin Gu...
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 want to avoid killing the plants, which provide foo...
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 breakfast, chicken breasts for lunch and salmon a...
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, without financial support of sponsors, they simply...
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 rat activity around the UK. Cleankill, a company t...
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 had used the programme started to act as if it wa...
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 exchange.在上一期商业播客中，我们谈到了大...
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 actually have a... we're not actually a company, are ...
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 embedded marketing, has grown both on TV and on t...
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 question, of course, Jackie. I know nothing about Insta...
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 spores off my camera. I was in a huge mushroom farm.在...
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 which progressively destroys brain cells, which t...
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 solely on the recognisable stomp of their shoes? ...
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 made changes to survive. So, OK, Richard, what hap...
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 podcasting website. Yeah, we realised that, of course, w...
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 packaging that excited them the most. First they wou...
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 faced two very different problems recently. Richar...
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, chocolate, ice cream. But that may be about to change.自...
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 machines, robots and software. Some say as soon as 2025...
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 third of food, roughly 1.3 billion tonnes, is waste...
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 also left two pairs of boots, a handful of tools, an...
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）这档节目。Yes, so Richard, what is The Dragon's ...
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 recognised terms or not.我们今天要讨论的是食品...
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 to sell suggested that those who used their podcast...
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. 我们在谈论技术是如何改变商业面貌的。To be more spec...
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 Crater. It's dry and dusty, but billions of years ...
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 health. But instead of warning of a 70% chance of rain...
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 that happen again?6600 万年前，一颗小行星...
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 thinking? Whether it's getting excited ...
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 suspending, or aerosolizing, medications into the air to b...
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 smoke or dust particles. And the little hairs lining...
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 airways, or bronchi. The airways funnel to sacs, called...
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 bed— in a cork-lined room to keep allergens out...
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 under-16s, but this isn't the case in many smaller ...
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 occasional one-off payments for chores? Parents arou...
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 photosites. Engineers know this. In fact, it’s basi...
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 camera. With only 0.11 megapixels and storage for 20 p...
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 art gallery in Los Angeles. And at this gallery, act...
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 got three minutes.当你打开“坏点子”的潘...
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 make this. We had to put it in the right place. Do...
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'm here to talk to you about bad ideas. The kind of...
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 the keys to this car, this beautiful vintage PT C...
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, some with less. And the difference is a measure of...
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 like the other ones don't exist. And as a result,...
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 don't lack ore body deposits. We lack information ...
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 the stars meant that by birth and by science, I beca...
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 part of a massive infection event: thousands of pe...
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 from its neck. It also has a bony collar that wraps ...
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 aching muscles after lots of exercise or get travel s...
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 the opposite can also be a problem? Have you ever...
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 usually incomplete, and also their origin and date may n...
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 the spear for preventive care. It's really the firs...
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 conditions. And as we've just said, there are several hundr...
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 have to say about the findings in their own child...
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 thought there was going to be catastrophic psycho...
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 first healthy infant in human history to have her geno...
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 was more than 0.2 degrees celsius higher than any y...
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 market town in north-east England to witness something...
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 industry to only hatch the female chicks. Thanks to tha...
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 first heard about it. It just sounded like comic-boo...
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 there that shook me. I remember seeing pigs comin...
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 factory farming.今天，我想和大家谈一谈一...
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 understand more about its evolutionary origins, researche...
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 peanuts and meat, these additives make food more vis...
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 interest rates, allowing massive interest hikes th...
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 illegal for banks to build branches outside their home s...
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 make money from these cards. They began allowing card...
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: he’d forgotten his wallet. While this scenario ...
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 warm."人们非常生气，我也经常被骂——不...
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 write the code and sometimes I build the machines.很多...
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 rooster and the mythical griffin creature that is half l...
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，并不是自动化的。No computer could take this job.没有一台...
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，不是机械的眼泪。About a simulated hung...
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. AI chat bots answer all my aimless interrogations:...
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 sheer quantity that you can eat. It's...
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 citizens to tell their climate stories in their own way...
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 for Rajghat. So he collaborated with us, and he tol...
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 actually tough issues. Gender, discrimination, clima...
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 actually felt really powerless. I remember watching ...
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 the life and quality of fresh products.↳可以说...
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，可以考虑用这种方式来取代传统的水果打蜡工序。We've ma...
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 in these fatty acids and glycerides. We dipped thos...
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 stores today relative to the amazing diversity of wha...
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 and breathing thing that's slowly cannibalizing i...
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 10,000 and you feel smug. Why? Well, we've been told i...