What do you name a future ophthalmologist? “Iris”! This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Ophthalmologist Baby Name” *music* So Grant, picture this, you have a newborn baby and you want him to grow up to be an...
Everyone knows old ones, but what about modern proverbs? Here’s an aphorism attributed to William Gibson: “The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed.” The hosts discuss some others. This is part of a...
Twin Peaks approach n.— «It was influenced by what is known in regulatory circles as the Twin Peaks approach, used in Australia and the Netherlands. The idea is to create two financial regulators that are given separate responsibilities...
meat without feet n.— «Professor Omholt knows that persuading many people to overcome their knee-jerk distaste for lab meat—or “meat without feet,” as one animal organisation has referred to it—will be tricky.» —“Is in vitro...
play n.— «That is why some companies are going back to old, supposedly tapped-out reservoirs—or “plays,” as they call them in the business—instead of opening virgin fields.» —“Oil Profits Fund Future...
multi-dadding n.— «Sadie Frost has done it. Ulrika Jonsson does it all the time. Paula Yates did it. And so have I. What we, and countless other women have done, is have children with more than one man. It is fraught, it is complicated...