Degree programme: stopping heat deaths
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
As heatwaves become more frequent and intense, they exacerbate existing inequalities. The poor, sick and elderly are particularly vulnerable. How should governments respond? Universities depend on the high fees international students pay. Now Indian scholars are replacing the diminishing flow of Chinese ones (10:00). And full-body deodorant is all the rage: find out if you should be using it (16:15).
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| 1:03.0 | The Economist. |
| 1:10.2 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:13.3 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:14.7 | And I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 1:16.1 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. |
| 1:24.1 | Universities love international students, or more to the point, the fees that they bring in. |
| 1:29.3 | After a long stretch as the biggest international cohort, Chinese scholars are thinning out and Indian ones are taking their places. |
| 1:37.3 | And here's a question. Have you ever tried full-body deodorant? Do you think that perhaps you should? |
| 1:46.6 | Our correspondent asked us to confront the smells we emit from our feet, our knee crevices, |
| 1:51.9 | and yes, from our underboobs. |
| 2:15.6 | But first, for half the world, the summer is just getting started, but already heat waves have spread across four continents. |
| 2:24.3 | Record temperatures in Europe and North Africa have fueled forest fires. In America, heat warnings have spread from New York to New Mexico. |
| 2:28.3 | Even this afternoon, we could have some real field numbers around 90. |
| 2:31.3 | Top story this morning is definitely the heat. |
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