The Economist: Babbage
Summary: Named after Charles Babbage a 19th-century polymath and grandfather of computing, Babbage is a weekly podcast on science and technology. Host Kenneth Cukier talks to our correspondents about the innovations, discoveries and gadgetry making the news. Published every Wednesday on Economist Radio.
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Podcasts:
Babbage: Hacking the hackers
Babbage: Break-ups
Embryos frozen during relationships lead to legal troubles down the road, and SpaceX loses a cargo carrier in the risky business of rocketry
How mobile phone data can help aid workers during humanitarian crises and start-ups which tweak your phone’s connectivity take on the big mobile network companies
Computer companies are harnessing the power of quantum mechanics and why the majority of bees have no economic value
Organs on chips allow researchers to mimic complicated human systems and Wales plans to ban e-cigarettes
Ad-blocking software has reached the mainstream and is going mobile, and handheld robots begin to marry what both man and machine do well
Babbage: AI and IA
Nokia attracts bids for its HERE mapping service and tests of a few brave mice suggest space travel could be terrible for the skin
Babbage: Thin-skinned
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
Babbage: Home-brewed heroin
This week our correspondents discuss the effects gadget-use can have on teenagers’ sleep, and Silicon Valley's billion-dollar "unicorns".
Babbage: LEDtime
This week our correspondents discuss how glitter can help astronomers see more clearly and how a biological missing link was spotted on the seafloor
