The Sub Standard Model

Part 3: The Liars.

When governments first confronted climate change in the 1990s, they understood it was a problem, but they believed modest, incremental policy could solve it. They never anticipated the scale of change that would be required, nor the ferocity of the industrial resistance they would face. While the science hardened into certainty, political will collapsed under the weight of fossil fuel lobbying and short-term economic thinking. Today, thousands of peer-reviewed studies tell the same story: we are past easy solutions. Cutting our losses now demands effort on a civilisational scale. The road ahead holds mass migration, famine, and conflict. Yet in 2025, the United States repealed the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases entirely. The science was never the problem. The politics always was.

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Part 3: The Liars.

When governments first confronted climate change in the 1990s, they understood it was a problem, but they believed modest, incremental policy could solve it. They never anticipated the scale of change that would be required, nor the ferocity of the industrial resistance they would face. While the science hardened into certainty, political will collapsed under the weight of fossil fuel lobbying and short-term economic thinking. Today, thousands of peer-reviewed studies tell the same story: we are past easy solutions. Cutting our losses now demands effort on a civilisational scale. The road ahead holds mass migration, famine, and conflict. Yet in 2025, the United States repealed the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases entirely. The science was never the problem. The politics always was.

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Part 2: The Projections.

When governments first confronted climate change in the 1990s, they understood it was a problem, but they believed modest, incremental policy could solve it. They never anticipated the scale of change that would be required, nor the ferocity of the industrial resistance they would face. While the science hardened into certainty, political will collapsed under the weight of fossil fuel lobbying and short-term economic thinking. Today, thousands of peer-reviewed studies tell the same story: we are past easy solutions. Cutting our losses now demands effort on a civilisational scale. The road ahead holds mass migration, famine, and conflict. Yet in 2025, the United States repealed the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases entirely. The science was never the problem. The politics always was.

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Part 1: The Sceptics.

When governments first confronted climate change in the 1990s, they understood it was a problem, but they believed modest, incremental policy could solve it. They never anticipated the scale of change that would be required, nor the ferocity of the industrial resistance they would face. While the science hardened into certainty, political will collapsed under the weight of fossil fuel lobbying and short-term economic thinking. Today, thousands of peer-reviewed studies tell the same story: we are past easy solutions. Cutting our losses now demands effort on a civilisational scale. The road ahead holds mass migration, famine, and conflict. Yet in 2025, the United States repealed the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases entirely. The science was never the problem. The politics always was.

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Warm pigments fail. Melanin buffers. There is Something in the Orange that tells me we are not done.

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In part two, we dive ever deeper into the science of sleep, from the chemistry of caffeine, to the ticking cellular clock, to the meaningless lives of cave catfish.

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In part one (after some enlightening preamble) we tackle the question of why mother nature in her wisdom would force nearly every complex animal to spend a third of their lives unconscious.

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Step through the looking-glass and into the strange world of molecular handedness, where sugars twist light into rainbows, amino acids choose sides, and life itself leans decisively in one direction.

Alongside a reimagined journey with Alice, we follow the clues hidden in chirality and homochirality, uncovering how a tiny asymmetry shaped every cell on Earth. And then we turn the mirror around: what would a world of opposite-handed life look like, and what risks might it bring?

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Of the three great eukaryote kingdoms, fungi are so often left behind, shunned and disregarded by mainstream media. How long they have slumbered in their soily beds, waiting for the day a pair of British podcasters will appreciate them for what they truly are.

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Grey Whales are migrating across the pacific. Some do not return.

It's 1945, war planes are flying into battle. Some do not return.

This episode is the first of a series of facts where we tried experimenting with video.

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