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In this episode, we take a look at animal intelligence and how it compares/contrasts with human intelligence. With the aid of some surprising examples, we find there is a lot more going on when it comes to "intelligence".

This is an episode of two halves - the first half takes the form of an interview with Mr Beard asking Me C about his new band 'New Ceremony' and his musical career, and the second half is more a general chat about music. Mr C provides the inside scoop on the creative process and what goes into recording a new album, while Mr Beard provides some anecdotes from his musical background.

In this episode, we take a whistle stop tour of literature in all its forms. Starting at the beginning, we discuss the famous Library of Alexandria and the invention of the Gutenberg Printing Press, then go on to highlight many of our favourite book series and authors including Viktor Schauberger, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dan Brown, JK Rowling, George RR Martin, Brian Friel and Road Dahl.

In this episode we take a look at the subject of 'technology', with our main topics of discussion covering Nikola Tesla, the invention of the transistor, the iconic Sony Walkman, human-augmenting biotechnology and society-changing Blockchain technology.

In this episode we look at exploration and folklore from the point of view of Ireland and a select group of Irish men and women that epitomize what we consider an explorer. We highlight some historic figures like Tom Crean Antarctic explorer, Anne Bonny an Irish lady pirate, Colin O’ Brady athlete and climber and also a demigod figure from Irish mythology Cu Chulainn.

Time has always been a funny topic of discussion, and for so many the obsession of their lives like Albert Einstein and the great astronomers and ocean explorers of the modern ages. Probably one of the most abstract notions when questioned, What is time? In this episode we tackle some of the ways in which ‘time’ has been described and measured over the centuries.