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Sebastian Mallaby on Demis Hassabis and the making of DeepMind
Indicast #238: India's oddly terrifying dead-ends
Point Blank with RB Ramesh, India's chess grandmaster-turned-coach
Indicast #237: Welcome 2023!
Indicast #236: How prodigies work
Indicast #235: All eyes on Qatar
Indicast # 234: Of bat, ball and British politics
Jennifer Shahade on how to think like a chess champion
Johan Norberg on why civilisations rise, flourish and fall
Jonathan Wilson on football, FIFA and 100 years of World Cup history
Dr Masud Husain on what the brain reveals about us
Tim Wigmore: The story of Test cricket
Samanth Subramanian on the undersea cables that run the world
Adam Weymouth: What wolves tell us about Europe
Philip Coggan on trade wars, globalisation and economic Common Sense
Kieran Mulvaney on the battle for power at the top of the world
Sir John Kay on why almost everything we are told about business is wrong
Edward Fishman on sanctions, chokepoints and the art of economic pressure
Jason Burke on the extremists who hijacked the 1970s
Danny Bate: Stories behind the English letters we use every day
Marc Dunkelman on Why Nothing Works
Patrick McGee on Apple in China
Stephen Witt on the cult of Nvidia and its charismatic founder, Jensen Huang
Richard Overy on why humans go to war
Charlie English on the CIA's quietest operation
Carl Zimmer breaks down what’s really in the air
Beyond Silicon Valley: Ludwig Siegele on China’s quiet AI revolution
Mike Brearley: On cricket, captaincy, character and the mind
Clive Oppenheimer on volcanoes and a life at the crater's edge
Charles Piller on the broken science behind Alzheimer’s research
John Dykes unplugged: mastering the art of storytelling and performance
Simon Parkin on the siege of Leningrad and the scientists who refused to give in
Tits Up! Sarah Thornton on breasts: their history, power and perception
Inside the human mind with Guy Leschziner
Indicast #258: When diplomacy takes a walk
Marcel Dirsus on how tyrants fall
Sunitha Krishnan on her memoir, I am what I am
Julie Sedivy on how languages shape us
Arik Kershenbaum on why animals talk
Tabitha Stanmore on magic and witchcraft
Sam Leith on childhood reading
Alison Taylor on doing the right thing
Rooted in History: Unearthing the Stories of Twelve Trees with Daniel Lewis
Sir David Spiegelhalter on the art of uncertainty
Rollo Romig on Gauri Lankesh and the fight for free speech in India
Indicast #257: Stock market gambling soars
Indicast #256: Welcome 2025
Charles Dallara on EuroShock: the tough negotiations that shaped Greece’s future
Timothy C. Winegard on how horses shaped human civilisation
Ben Yagoda on the British invasion of American English
Truth and lies with Alex Edmans
Dr Duvvuri Subbarao, former RBI governor on his life and career
Gray Matters: Exploring the Brain with Dr. Theodore Schwartz
Lawrence Booth on Bazball
Paul Seabright on religion, wealth and economics
Marcia Bjornerud on how rocks share secrets of our planet’s past
Andrew Leigh on economics and why it matters
The future of our oceans with Helen Scales
Jean Martin Bauer on world hunger and what we can do about it
Nicola Twilley on how refrigeration has changed the world
Untold stories of unsung Maths legends with Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell
Nobel Laureate Thomas R. Cech on why Ribonucleic Acid rocks
Will Cockrell on the mavericks of Mount Everest
Carl Öhman on what happens to our data after we die
Geoff White on digital transformation of money laundering
Dr Erica Thompson on how mathematical models can lead us astray and what we can do about it
Tamal Bandyopadhyay's roller coaster affair with banking
Kelly Clancy on her book, “Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World”
Indicast #255: India wins T20 World Cup
Indicast #254: India loves gold
Cognitive neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf on what reading does to the brain
Indicast #253: Democracy counts, for whatever it’s worth
Gregory Zuckerman on his book "The Man Who solved the market: How Jim Simons Launched The Quant Revolution"
Alex Duff on his book, "Smart Money: The Fall and Rise of Brentford FC"
Ananyo Bhattacharya on his book The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
Indicast #252: The solar eclipse saga
Indicast #251: India's Chess grandmasters rise
Indicast #250: What social media does to our brains
Dennis Yi Tenen on his book Literary Theory of Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
Indicast #249: RIP Ameen Sayani
Tom Wainwright on Facebook turning 20
David Bodanis on his book, “The Art of Fairness:The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean”
Indicast #248: India's Supreme Court bans electoral bonds
Zeke Faux on his book, “Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall”
Indicast #247: Deep fake is on steroids
Kenneth Miller on his book, “Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep”
Daniel Knowles on his book, “How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It”
Indicast #246: Clowning glory
Indicast #245: How the Ukraine war has impacted Surat's diamond industry
Indicast #244: India loves junk food
Indicast #243: India embraces IVF
Indicast #242: India wants Bharat or does it
Kiran Verma, on a 21,000 km walk to raise awareness on blood donation
Dr Anna Lembke on her book, "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence"
Gavin Jackson on his book, "Money In One Lesson"
Ludwig Siegele, The Economist's top tech guru on ChatGPT
Annie Lowrey on her book, "Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World"
Philip Coggan on his book, "Surviving the Daily Grind: Bartleby's Guide to Work"
Tom Standage on his book, "A Brief History of Motion"
Indicast #241: The Adani Way