Swear words abound on TV and in movies and suddenly those bad words don't seem so bad anymore. Is it time we had a new swear word to replace what we thought were the worst of the old bunch? How can you create one and get people to start using it? At South Mimms U we're willing to try anything.

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The 'right to bear arms' means 'arms' not just guns, so you might as well go Second Amendment to the max and wear a sword - a wonderful, ceremonial sword. The ladies will love it. And if you're a lady, the guys will love it. The Second Amendment is pronoun free. Our constitutional expert shows off his swords and explains why it's every American's right to carry small arms which range from knives to pistols to automatic weapons and grenade launchers and spears and bows and arrows... knock yourself out!

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In a special episode we talk to the leader of the new Luddite movement which sees unemployed accountants fight back against the robots that have taken their jobs, and the 9 year old boy who's been put in charge of a corporations entire financial department. Compelling, important, revolutionary.

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Prison reform is a big subject across the world. What's the best way to incacerate vthose who have transgressed our laws? Do we put them to work or rehabilitate them? Can you do both? And is the labour we ask them to do 'free' labour? One proposal might see prisoners transformed into  galley slaves. Intriguing.

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Some of the world's richest people dropped out of education and one think tank things we should ALL do the same. There's no point in formal education at all so all kids should just go to work. South Mimms U has started a course to show you how to do it right. Beware - if you get through the academic year, you fail! 

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Religion is going digital, and at South Mimms U we're testing a new concept which matches Artificial Intelligence with the needs of the Roman Catholic Church. A shortage of priests means that maybe we need a new kind of digital assistant - Father Eamon - the Alexa of religion, only it has to be a male not a female voice. Find out how the idea plays out in beta testing.

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One of the most enigmatic names of the Digital Age, many believe that the founder of the Blockchain and Bitcoin is a mythical figure. He's either a she or a they or an early AI program. But we believe we've found the truth - and it/he/she lives in the tiny UK village of South Mimms. Well, kind of. You'll have to listen to find out. The crypto mystery has been solved!

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We take it everywhere. We eat, sleep, work with it. It makes us feel safe. So, in truth, our phone is really a security blanket. So, why not turn it into a REAL one!? Designers and technologists at South Mimms U have produced a prototype of the Linus Phone - a Linus Blanket for the Digital Age. That's Linus from the Snoopy cartoons, of course. 

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We all lead busy lives and those pesky kids want a bedtime story - sometimes the same one over and over again! So, when you can't be there (or don't want to be) wouldn't it be great if you could upload a hologram of yourself to do it instead? Of course it would.  But, what might the consequences be? Find out how South Mimms U's experiment went. 

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Comedy and climate change collide in a weird dialogue about why farts are funny and how they just might the basis for all comedy and even drama - and a scientist who wants to harness the gaseous explosions of the world's billions of cows and sheep. He thinks it'll help solve the climate crisis, but might industrializing farts reduce their comic potential? The world might be a duller place if we do. 

The only university that makes you chuckle AND learn at the same time.