Doomscroll Remedy

Apr 19 2022 6

When your feed is filled with crushing news, conspiracy theories and existential threats (climate change who?), life can seem pretty overwhelming. But that’s why in Doomscroll Remedy, we’re going deeper in an attempt to better understand how we got ourselves into this mess and what we can do to get out of it. It’s for that knot in your gut – yeah, we feel it too – when you’re stuck on an endless stream of terrible news and you’re not quite sure how to get off the doomscroll death spiral. You’ll get a glimpse into the lives of people on the front lines of the curliest issues – and meet the people trying to solve them. Don't throw your phone through the wall – seek solace in your podcast app instead.

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Reality check – talking to someone wrapped up in a conspiracy theory

Apr 19 2022 24 mins

“I don't think anyone really wakes up one day, gasping for breath and thinking everyone else is a lizard.” Like Molly, you probably know someone who has tried to convince you that vaccines are full of mind-controlling nanobots, or that 5G towers are really being used to brainwash us.Maybe you’ve even heard some that actually make you stop and think: like, maybe something

Why am I like this? What happens to our bodies and brains when anxiety takes over

Apr 05 2022 25 mins

What’s been keeping you up at night lately? Is it the pandemic? Has work been stressing you out lately? Or the fact your Great Aunt thinks the world is run by lizard people? Oh, or maybe it’s the fact that the ocean’s full of plastic – that seems like something you should probably be worried about, doesn’t it? And now you’re probably not feeling great – maybe your che

Storms that bring fire – using artificial intelligence in Australia’s bushfire crisis

Mar 22 2022 21 mins

When you’re on the frontline of a raging bushfire, every second counts. Life-saving decisions have to be made in seconds, and anyone who’s lived through a bushfire can tell you the difference 5, 10 or 15 minutes can make. Even if you haven’t lived it, most Australians remember the images of glowing red skies, smoke-blanketed cities and angry thunderstorms that, instead of rai

Not so fantastic: is there plastic in my brain?

Mar 10 2022 19 mins

"I think we've been quite naïve in terms of how we've dealt with plastic and how we've let it contaminate every sphere of the environment: from the highest points of the Himalayas to the deep ocean trenches, we find plastic now."Professor Kevin Thomas has been studying plastic since before it was cool, and he’s right – once it hits the tallest mountain

Stop the doomscroll spiral – meet the people living through the existential threats that keep us up at night, and the ones trying to solve them

Feb 21 2022 2 mins