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Food for thought: raising the world’s IQ

Economist Podcasts

The Economist

News & Politics, News

4.35K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

If you don’t have enough food in the first 1,000 days of your life, your brain may never reach its full potential. Our correspondent discusses what better nutrition would mean for the world. Undersea cables are the arteries of our telecommunications system, but that also makes them vulnerable (9:13). And a new powder may help make periods less of a bloody nuisance (17:42).


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0:00.0

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0:05.7

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0:11.2

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0:17.3

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0:22.8

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0:27.7

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0:32.6

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1:00.8

The Economist. Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

1:11.1

I'm Jason Palmer.

1:12.6

And I'm Rosie Bloor.

1:14.0

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world.

1:22.9

Subsea cables may sound mundane, but these are the arteries of our international telecommunications

1:28.4

systems. Unfortunately, that means they're also vulnerable to all sorts of murky activity.

1:36.7

And there's a new remedy that might help dissipate one source of anxiety for half the world's population.

1:42.9

Nope, not antidepressants or anything like that.

1:45.8

It's a powder that could stop your period being quite such a bloody nuisance.

1:59.7

First up, though.

2:17.4

Kepita Naima was a month pregnant when men with guns burned her home and stole everything she had.

2:23.0

Terrified, she fled from her village in eastern Congo,

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