19 min listen
Blistering pace: monkeypox spreads
Blistering pace: monkeypox spreads
ratings:
Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Aug 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
As the first fatal cases outside Africa are reported, we investigate the response to the disease, and the parallels with the early days of HIV. Nuclear waste has been stockpiled in supposedly temporary pools for decades; our correspondent visits the first place it is being permanently entombed. And where education is failing even amid encouraging enrolment numbers.For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Released:
Aug 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The Intelligence: A despot’s calculation: Internal and international pressure on President Nicolás Maduro brings Venezuela to the brink of change. As Facebook turns 15, it’s lurching from crisis to crisis—and still making money hand over fist. We ask whether it has, on balance, been good for t... by The Intelligence from The Economist