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UNSW Centre for Ideas — 100 episodes

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We built this thing Ep5: The age of consent: When your social media post causes a national reckoning with Chanel Contos

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We built this thing Ep4: The ethical executive: when your moral compass guides your career decisions with Raji Ambikairajah

3

Daniel Joinbee: Indigenous aerospace trailblazer

4

Andrew Upton: From stage to page

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We built this thing Ep3: From incarcerated to CEO: driving change in youth justice from the inside-out with Michael Kwan

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We built this thing Ep2: The competitive edge as a first-time founder in your 40s with Janet Salem

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We built this thing Ep1: When solving the water crisis comes from thin air with Shannon Lemanski

8

Human vs Machine: Joel Pearson on staying optimistic about the intelligence revolution

9

Human vs Machine: Barbara Wilby and Joel Pearson in conversation

10

Women on Top

11

Whistleblowers: In defence of truth

12

Sue-Anne Hunter: Our kids deserve better

13

Nalini Prasad on global oil and the Aussie wallet

14

Nila Ibrahimi: Song of Rebellion (Re-release)

15

Guardians of the future: Māori knowledge in the age of AI

16

Meditation on Country: Professor Angie Abdilla

17

Look Again: Why AI images don’t tell the whole picture

18

The Housing Crisis with Alan Kohler (Re-release)

19

Laurie Woolever: The gluttony of life

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6 things you need to know about AI with Toby Walsh (Re-release)

21

Karen Hao: Empire of AI (Re-release)

22

Yael Stone: Giving to gain

23

Who's the Man? (Re-release)

24

Gough Whitlam: The Vista of the New

25

Lesbians are Lovely!

26

David Cooper Lecture | Ending AIDS: A Global Responsibility

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Kind by Design with Dr Gabi Nudelman | One Big Idea

28

Unpicking the Lock to the Blood-Brain Barrier with Dr Alexis Minchaca Acosta | One Big Idea

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Reframing Rescue with Communities at the Heart with Dr Regina Jefferies | One Big Idea

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Grand Designs for our Oceans' Habitats with Ann Flemming Nielsen | One Big Idea

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Who's the Man?

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The Power of Light with Dr Alison Goldingay | One Big Idea

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Rewiring AI with Dr Charu Maithani | One Big Idea

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Tailor-Made Childhood Cancer Treatments with Professor Maria Kavallaris AM | One Big Idea

35

SWF Great Debate: True Friends Stab You in the Front

36

Ivan Coyote: Playlist

37

Nila Ibrahimi: Song of Rebellion

38

The Business of Beauty

39

Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street

40

STEMMinist Book Club

41

Karen Hao: Empire of AI

42

Sherine Al Shallah and Lucas Lixinski on Cultural Objects

43

Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time

44

Psychedelia

45

John Valliant: Fire Weather

46

Luke McNamara on Hate Speech and the Law

47

Kerrie Davies on Miles Franklin’s Little Known Years

48

Toby Walsh on the Six Ideas You Need to Understand AI

49

Donna Strickland: Laser Jock

50

Adam Bayes on Mind-Altering Mental Health

51

Business Behaving Badly

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Anne Summers: 50 Years of Damned Whores and God's Police

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Andrew Leigh and Richard Holden on Inequality

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Vanishing Histories

55

Climate Warriors

56

The Art and Science of AI

57

Queer Life, Love & Identity

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Colum McCann: The Truth Disconnect

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The Housing Crisis with Alan Kohler

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Dark Technologies

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History of Sex

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The Fading Dream

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Ending the 'Tyranny' of Pregnancy

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Counterfeit People

65

Deborah Lawrie: The Fight to Fly

66

Pankaj Mishra: Global Conflicts, Competing Narratives

67

Silenced Women

68

Arian Prabowo | AI and Urban Progress

69

Leah Lui-Chivizhe | Why Ancestors Can’t Stay in Museums

70

Nevena Krups | The Hidden Power of Friendship

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Matt O’Kane | Cyber Education: Progress or Peril?

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Kate Brady | Disasters are Awful: What Comes After Doesn't Have To Be

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Kate Poole | How Can We Better Prepare Our Astronauts For Space Travel?

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Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson | Australia and Asia: Working Together for a Prosperous Future

75

Jennifer Doudna: The Gene Editing Revolution

76

Democracy Reimagined: New Thinking for the 21st Century

77

Facts, Fictions and Critical Thinking

78

The Generation Gulf

79

Fragile Democracy

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Michelle Chase | Making Space Law in the Twenty-First Century

81

Michael Kidd | UNSW and the Future of Australian Health Care

82

Genevra Hart | Dopamine Habits

83

Toby Walsh | Ministry of AI

84

Megan Evans | (Don’t) Question the Fake Carbon Forests

85

Michael Richardson | Military AI is Even Worse Than You Think

86

Bronwyn Graham | Women, Your Healthcare is Based on a Man’s Body

87

Writing Letters with Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham

88

Degrowth

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Jennifer Gunter: Menstruation, Menopause & Medical Mythology

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Haben Girma: The First Deafblind Harvard Graduate

91

Athena Aktipis: A Field Guide to the Apocalypse

92

Science Communication in the Age of Misinformation

93

Tamara Davis: Dark Energy

94

Joel Pearson on Intuition

95

Great Debate: Artificial Intelligence is Better Than the Real Thing

96

Abraham Verghese: The Covenant of Water

97

Australia's Place in the World

98

Richard Holden on Money in the 21st Century

99

Literary Legends

100

Jennifer Doudna: My Life in Science