Can we engineer ourselves out of a heatwave?
Summary
Host Tom Whipple discusses solar radiation management with Prof. Mark Maslin as a potential climate intervention, while Rebecca Emerton details rising global heat stress. Lizzie Gibney explores the "Salah effect" on reducing prejudice, breakthroughs in nuclear atomic clocks, and the evolutionary roots of laughter in great apes.
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Introduction: Heatwave and episode overview
Solar radiation management and geoengineering ethics
Mainstreaming of geoengineering discussions
Study on rising global heat stress and UTCI
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The Salah effect: Football and reducing prejudice
New nuclear clocks using Thorium-229
Laughter in great apes and speech evolution
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