Where are we going to fit seven billion people? What’s the deal with ear candling? And we learn new information about the goings-on in Iran in the 70s.
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Seven Billion (1:25) by Michael Grayer
Plan C (7:50) by Prateek Buch
White Poppies (15:36) by Tessa Kendall
Non-Prophet Week (20:05) by James O’Malley (ft Jenny Bartle)
AIDS at the Science Wooseum (23:51) by Kash Farooq (as read by Alex Foster)
The Oil Kings (29:41) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Andrew Scott Cooper)
Historical Narratives (39:56) by Nick Boorer
Ear Candling (47:00) by Tom Williamson
Skeptical Purity Test (54:03) by Drew Rae
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy & Brian Two
Follow-Up Links:
- Radical Statistics Population Studies Group
- IIASA report on timing of “seven billion” and other things
- ‘Plan B’ for the economy
- Prateek’s ‘Plan C’ for the economy
- Social Liberal Forum on Plan B
- Non-Prophet Week
- Liz’s full interview with Andrew Scott Cooper:
- Buy ‘The Oil Kings’ by Andrew Scott Cooper
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