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Latest Episodes
Genetic Gold Mine
The wheat genome -- much larger than the human genome, and packed with lost alleles for resilient wheat in a warming world. Plant researchers in the UK and China united to sequence the source code of
Apes on Steroids
The Great Acceleration: Earth systems commandeered by permanent human growth economics, fueled by coal, oil and gas. A quarter of the planet's core energy base -- natural primary productivity -- appro
Killing the Future
Killing the future in Gaza. Reducing it to rubble. Forcibly transferring its people into filthy tent camps, or onto the street. Starving them. Hunger and disease go hand in hand. The GPM speaks with A
Gaza, the West Bank & Belgium
Navi Pillay, chair of the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, reports to the Human Rights Council in Geneva about high Israeli and Hamas crimes
Tipping Points
In the heart of one of Canadas biggest cities, paradise. Below a city dwellers feet, a pulsating, living network. All around us on this living planet, the clear and present danger of sliding into ob
Sound of Silence
Music in your head. Brain signals sing along. The GPM speaks with neuromusicologist Roger Dumas. Is nature going silent, or is it just drowned out by human noise? The GPM speaks with sound ecologists
Scholasticide
Scholasticide. Bombing schools, libraries and cultural centers. Killing students and teachers. Sound like genocide? It is. The GPM speaks about Israeli scholasticide in Gaza with the UN Special Rappor
Wheels of Justice
Some thought it would never happen. This past week it did: criminal charges against Israeli leaders at the International Criminal Court, in The Hague. Israeli leaders can kiss their overseas travel pl
Scoundrel Time Revisited
European governments try to stop a Palestinian surgeon from talking about Israeli ultra-violence and fail. No one seeks to stamp out free speech more zealously than the Germans. How to explain the p
Gowns and Goons
Dutch students and staff stand up for Gaza at a university gathering, and get a hearing. Free speech in the Netherlands? Just for show, protesters say. Weeks later, peaceful campus encampments are bro