Insight Podcast

Conscious or not: How do we know for sure if someone is unconscious? Insight: Tuesdays at 8:30pm on SBS ONE http://www.sbs.com.au/insight.

As the prospect of legalisation and clinical trials looms in several states, Insight also asks whether legal marijuana will lead to an increase of recreational use – and just what will happen to the black market. Is medicinal marijuana doing good or harm?

As part of Insight’s celebration of ten years as a forum, this week we revisit our program from 2013 on virginity: who wants to keep it, who wants to get rid of it, and who’s trying to fake it?

Australia – and the world - is at risk of a deadly pandemic. But it’s not Ebola. In a special episode, Insight explores just how Australia would cope in a hypothetical influenza pandemic situation. Are we ready?

How do you deal with memories you don’t want? Are some memories so bad they’re better to forget? http://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight

This week, Insight asks, where does personal responsibility start and end?

This week Insight looks at how surrogacy arrangements in Australia are unfolding and how people are navigating the unexpected. Who calls the shots in surrogacy arrangements?

This week Insight looks at whether more people with disabilities should be working – and what’s standing in the way. So what are the hurdles? Practicalities? Attitudes of employers? Or the attitudes of the job seekers themselves?

Jenny Brockie asks why are Australians being drawn to the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, either to do humanitarian work or join the fight? Where are the influences coming from and what should be done about it? #insightsbs

This week we revisit the phenomenon of people changing their physical ethnic traits – using everything from skin whitening creams to double eye-lid surgery. What are the pressures or influences spurring people to get cosmetic surgery and what is considered 'beautiful' today?

Around 80 percent of all suicides are men, and experts say the statistics may well get worse. A room of men discuss why male suicide rates are so high – and how some of them made it back from the brink.

Where does talent come from – is it born or made? Hear from those who achieved greatness through hard work and child prodigies who were all but born swinging a tennis racket.

Desperate Australians are turning to controversial, unproven stem cell treatments for a whole range of illnesses. They say they’re tired of waiting for the long process of clinical trials to conclude, while they get sicker and sicker. This week, Insight asks whether current stem cell treatments are cause for hope – or just misleading hype.

Is smacking children ever ok? This week we revisit that question as part of Insight’s 10th anniversary replay of favourite episodes from our archives. We’re joined by parents who believe in a firm hand and hear from parents who use other methods of keeping kids in line – everything from ‘time out’, removal of privileges, withholding food, or, as one of our guests puts it simply, “The Look”.

This week, Jenny Brockie asks – do we have a culture of entitlement? www.sbs.com.au/insight