# The Conversation Weekly Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543.md RSS feed: https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-conversation-weekly/ Official site: https://theconversation.com/us/topics/the-conversation-weekly-98901 Author: The Conversation Episodes: 285 ## Resource A show for curious minds, from The Conversation. Each week, host Gemma Ware speaks to an academic expert about a topic in the news to understand how we got here. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-conversation-weekly-1380543 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543.md ## Episodes - [How celebrities like Taylor Swift are fighting back against AI deepfakes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/how-celebrities-like-taylor-swift-are-fighting-back-against-ai-deepfakes) — 2026-07-09T14:00:00+00:00 - [The anatomy of a super El Niño](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/the-anatomy-of-a-super-el-ni-o) — 2026-07-02T14:00:00+00:00 - [Cockroach party hits nerve with angry young Indians](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/cockroach-party-hits-nerve-with-angry-young-indians) — 2026-06-25T13:00:00+00:00 - [Teens are still on social media, but does that mean Australia's ban has failed?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/teens-are-still-on-social-media-but-does-that-mean-australia-s-ban-has-failed) — 2026-06-18T12:15:00+00:00 - [How the US finally fell in love with soccer](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/how-the-us-finally-fell-in-love-with-soccer) — 2026-06-11T08:40:00+00:00 - [Two scientists on their race to make a new Ebola vaccine](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/two-scientists-on-their-race-to-make-a-new-ebola-vaccine) — 2026-06-04T14:30:00+00:00 - [The salt caverns used to stockpile oil](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/the-salt-caverns-used-to-stockpile-oil) — 2026-05-28T14:45:00+00:00 - [Argentina’s inflation ‘miracle’ is more of a mirage](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/argentina-s-inflation-miracle-is-more-of-a-mirage) — 2026-05-21T14:45:00+00:00 - [The conspiracy theorists who feel vindicated by the Epstein files](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/the-conspiracy-theorists-who-feel-vindicated-by-the-epstein-files) — 2026-05-14T14:30:00+00:00 - [China’s long game on Trump’s tariffs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/china-s-long-game-on-trump-s-tariffs) — 2026-05-07T14:15:00+00:00 - [Trump v Leo: the war of words over a just war](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/trump-v-leo-the-war-of-words-over-a-just-war) — 2026-04-30T14:30:00+00:00 - [Israel’s history shapes how it wages war](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/israel-s-history-shapes-how-it-wages-war) — 2026-04-23T14:30:00+00:00 - [How former insider Péter Magyar ousted Hungary’s Viktor Orbán](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/how-former-insider-p-ter-magyar-ousted-hungary-s-viktor-orb-n) — 2026-04-16T09:15:00+00:00 - [The pseudoscientific scale looksmaxxers use to rate each other](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/the-pseudoscientific-scale-looksmaxxers-use-to-rate-each-other) — 2026-04-09T14:45:00+00:00 - [The Making of One Nation: the unlikely rise of Australia’s Pauline Hanson](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/the-making-of-one-nation-the-unlikely-rise-of-australia-s-pauline-hanson) — 2026-04-02T14:00:00+00:00 - [Artemis II: NASA’s long road back to the Moon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/artemis-ii-nasa-s-long-road-back-to-the-moon) — 2026-03-26T14:15:00+00:00 - [How the US cloned Iran's drones](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/how-the-us-cloned-iran-s-drones) — 2026-03-19T14:45:00+00:00 - [Mystery covid methane spike solved](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/mystery-covid-methane-spike-solved) — 2026-03-12T14:45:00+00:00 - [Was the Gulf blindsided on Iran?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/was-the-gulf-blindsided-on-iran) — 2026-03-05T14:30:00+00:00 - [South Korea's birth rate is rising, but the population is still shrinking](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/south-korea-s-birth-rate-is-rising-but-the-population-is-still-shrinking) — 2026-02-26T14:45:00+00:00 - [The 'national humiliation' behind Russia's war on Ukraine](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/the-national-humiliation-behind-russia-s-war-on-ukraine) — 2026-02-19T14:45:00+00:00 - [How Minneapolis is organising against ICE](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/how-minneapolis-is-organising-against-ice) — 2026-02-12T14:50:00+00:00 - [The Super Bowl that kickstarted prop betting in America](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/the-super-bowl-that-kickstarted-prop-betting-in-america) — 2026-02-05T15:00:00+00:00 - [How Iran shut down the internet](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/how-iran-shut-down-the-internet) — 2026-01-29T14:45:00+00:00 - [A lost US military base under Greenland's ice sheet](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/a-lost-us-military-base-under-greenland-s-ice-sheet) — 2026-01-22T14:45:00+00:00 - [A new treaty to protect our oceans](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/a-new-treaty-to-protect-our-oceans) — 2026-01-15T15:00:00+00:00 - [The Making of an Autocrat: co-opt the military](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/the-making-of-an-autocrat-co-opt-the-military) — 2026-01-04T14:15:00+00:00 - [The Making of an Autocrat: suppress the people](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/the-making-of-an-autocrat-suppress-the-people) — 2026-01-04T14:00:00+00:00 - [The Making of an Autocrat: beat the courts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/the-making-of-an-autocrat-beat-the-courts) — 2025-12-28T14:45:00+00:00 - [The Making of an Autocrat: manufacture a crisis](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/the-making-of-an-autocrat-manufacture-a-crisis) — 2025-12-28T14:30:00+00:00 - [The Making of an Autocrat: recruit an architect](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/the-making-of-an-autocrat-recruit-an-architect) — 2025-12-28T14:15:00+00:00 - [The Making of an Autocrat: hijack a party](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-weekly-1380543/the-making-of-an-autocrat-hijack-a-party) — 2025-12-28T14:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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