Science In Action - Animals at the Wuhan Market

DNA has revealed potential animal COVID carriers at the Wuhan market, but what does that tell us about the start of the pandemic? Roland talks to two of the experts behind the new analysis: Dr Florence Débarre and Professor Eddie Holmes.

Also, we look into Europe’s grand new space ambitions. ESA director general Josef Aschbacher gives Roland the details of the space agency’s out-of-this-world plans.

And Beethoven's last DNA: a hairy story of his family and genetic afflictions. Dr Tristan Begg shares how the composer’s tresses unlocked new information about his life and death.

Image credit: Eddie Holmes

Producer: Roland Pease Assistant producer: Sophie Ormiston

Headlines From The Times - A surrender hotline for Russian soldiers

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, Ukrainian military officials have set up a hotline for Russian soldiers to call in and surrender. Is it working to end the war?.

Today, we talk to the people behind it. Read the full transcript here.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guests: L.A. Times global affairs correspondent Laura King

More reading:

Lots of Russian soldiers want to surrender. Ukraine makes it easier with a high-tech hotline

A soldier’s tale: Russian serviceman’s scathing memoir depicts a senseless war

Read the L.A. Times’ full Ukraine coverage

Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - What Happens When Chicago Police Seize Guns

The Chicago Police Department has prioritized seizing illegal guns. A new investigation suggests that tactic is not leading to meaningful improvements to public safety and that it’s upending the lives of Black men in the city, who have guns seized at five times the rate of any other racial group. Reset learns more about the arguments for and against this tactic and what happens when police prioritize seizing guns with Lakeidra Chavis and Geoff Hing from The Marshall Project.

The Intelligence from The Economist - Iraq, a hard place: 20 years after the invasion

America invaded Iraq 20 years ago this week. Today Baghdad is bustling, violence across the country is less frequent, but these gains have come at a horrific cost. India is getting a huge, essential infrastructure upgrade. And we say goodbye to one of our hosts.


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Runtime: 22 min



The Best One Yet - 🔥 “Too Lit to Prohibit” — TikTok’s judgment day. PetCo’s peak puppy. Cash App’s rap battle.

TikTok’s CEO just tried to convince Congress that it’s all good, but our elected representatives seemed to disagree — so the question remains: Is TikTok too lit to prohibit? PetCo’s stock just fell to its lowest level ever because we may have hit Peak Puppy. And Block shares plummeted 20% after its Cash App got challenged to a rap battle.  Play the weekly TBOY Quiz: https://go.tboypod.com/ Can you go 5 out of 5 on this week’s pop-biz news stories? $WOOF $CHWY $SQ $SNAP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Everything Everywhere Daily - Negative Numbers

Over the span of human history, there are certain ideas that humans have had a very difficult time accepting. 

Ideas that no one has any problem with today and are even grasped by children actually took centuries to be commonly adopted. 

Perhaps this is no more true than with the concept of negative numbers. 

Learn more about negative numbers and how they went from being absurd to commonplace on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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