Babbage from The Economist (subscriber edition)
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Babbage is The Economist’s weekly podcast on science and technology—named after Charles Babbage, the grandfather of computing. Explore the science changing the way we live from AI to genetics, particle physics and space travel with Alok Jha. This award-winning podcast features in-depth interviews with top scientists and special episodes investigating wellness trends. Published every Wednesday.If you’re already a subscriber to The Economist, you’ll have full access to all our shows as part of your subscription.For more information about Economist Podcasts+, including how to get access, please visit our FAQs page here https://myaccount.economist.com/s/article/What-is-Economist-Podcasts
Episodes
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Jul 1, 2015 • 12min
Babbage: Break-ups
Embryos frozen during relationships lead to legal troubles down the road, and SpaceX loses a cargo carrier in the risky business ofrocketry
Jun 24, 2015 • 10min
Babbage: Mapping crises with mobiles
How mobile phone data can help aid workers duringhumanitarian crises and start-ups which tweak your phone’s connectivity take onthe big mobile network companies
Jun 17, 2015 • 9min
Babbage: Quantum leaps and bee-conomics
Computer companies are harnessing the power of quantum mechanics and why the majority of bees have no economic value
Jun 10, 2015 • 7min
Babbage: Up in e-smoke
Organs on chips allow researchers to mimic complicated human systems and Wales plans to ban e-cigarettes
Jun 3, 2015 • 9min
Babbage: AI and IA
Ad-blocking software has reached the mainstream and is going mobile, and handheld robots begin to marry what both man and machine do well
May 27, 2015 • 8min
Babbage: Thin-skinned
Nokia attracts bids for its HERE mapping service and tests of a few brave mice suggest space travel could be terrible for the skin
May 20, 2015 • 8min
Babbage: Home-brewed heroin
How lab experiments got a step closer to yeast that can make morphine, and how app experiments by developers such as Facebook happen in New Zealand
May 13, 2015 • 7min
Babbage: LEDtime
This week our correspondents discuss the effects gadget-use can have on teenagers’ sleep, and Silicon Valley's billion-dollar "unicorns".
May 6, 2015 • 2min
Babbage: Trailer
Babbage is our weekly podcast on science and technology, named after Charles Babbage—a 19th-century polymath and grandfather of computing. Host Alok Jha talks to our correspondents about the innovations, discoveries and gadgetry shaping the world. Published every Wednesday.
