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Sensemaker

The Observer

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Frequency: 1 episode/1d. Total Eps: 1387

The Sensemaker from The Observer - one story every day to make sense of the world.

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How to hack Mount Everest

Season 1 · Episode 1120

vendredi 6 juin 2025 • Duration 07:04

A group of climbers has sparked debate over cheating in mountaineering after scaling Everest and returning to London in just 5 days - with the help of xenon gas.

Writer: Jess Swinburne

Producer: Serena Cesareo

Host: Casey Magloire

Photography: Alex Jones

Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

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Bottom trawling: fishing’s dirty secret

Season 1 · Episode 1119

jeudi 5 juin 2025 • Duration 06:29

David Attenborough’s new documentary Ocean has put bottom trawling in the crosshairs of environmental activists.

Clips in this episode are from David Attenborough’s new documentary film, Ocean.

Writer: James Tapper

Producer: Jonathan Lewis

Host: Tomini Babs

Episode photography: Joe Mee

Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

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Could this be the end of abortion prosecutions?

Season 1 · Episode 1110

jeudi 22 mai 2025 • Duration 08:03

In recent years, an increasing number of women - including Nicola Packer - have been investigated and put on trial for illegally ending their pregnancy.

Writer: Phoebe Davis

If you’d like to read more of Phoebe’s interview with Nicola Packer, click here.

Producer: Karla Patella

Host: Casey Magloire

Episode photography: Joe Mee

Photograph: Sonja Horsman

Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

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How Pokémon Go Powers AI

Season 1 · Episode 1022

lundi 13 janvier 2025 • Duration 08:23

Niantic, the company behind the game that took the world by storm in 2016, is building a massive geospatial AI model that could end up powering robots – all using player data.

The company behind the wildly popular augmented reality game has been quietly helping to train a massive AI model by collecting user data to build a detailed 3D map of the world. While this geospatial model could power innovations like Augmented Reality glasses, there are concerns about privacy and potential uses for military applications.

Writer and Producer: Patricia Clarke

Photography: Jon Jones

Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

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Ep 123: Canada's terrible secret

Episode 123

lundi 5 juillet 2021 • Duration 07:26

Thousands of unmarked graves have been found in Canada at former residential schools for children from indigenous families. The true scale of the scandal is still emerging.

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Ep 122: A bitter by-election

Episode 122

samedi 3 juillet 2021 • Duration 06:17

Labour won this week's by-election after a very hard-fought campaign. And the party wasn't only fighting its opponents.

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Ep 121: Why Bill Cosby was freed

Episode 121

jeudi 1 juillet 2021 • Duration 05:34

Comedian Bill Cosby was jailed for sexual assault - one of the highest-profile stars held to account after the #MeToo movement. So why has he just walked free?

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Ep 120: China's rap patriots

mercredi 30 juin 2021 • Duration 05:43

China's ruling party are about to celebrate their 100-year anniversary. But their new anthem isn't quite what you'd expect...

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Ep 119: A political affair

Episode 119

mardi 29 juin 2021 • Duration 06:32

Matt Hancock's resignation as Health Secretary has triggered a bout of political infighting. Who's going to win?

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Ep 118: The paranoid pioneer

Episode 118

lundi 28 juin 2021 • Duration 05:21

John McAfee invented anti-virus software and made millions. Last week he took his own life in a Spanish jail, convinced that politicians and the FBI were out to get him.

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