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The Inquiry: How Did Governments Lose Control of Encryption?
Whitfield Diffie on his 1970s invention which changed encryption forever.
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More or Less: Antibiotics and the Problem of the Broken Market
Why big pharma won鈥檛 invest in new antibiotics.
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麻豆社 Trending: The Men Recovering From 鈥楶orn Addiction鈥�
Thousands of men identify as reformed 鈥榩orn addicts鈥�, but is it a real condition?
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From Our Own Correspondent: South Korea's Changing Tastes
Why the world's best baguettes are no longer made by French, but South Korean bakers
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The Inquiry: Has President Assad Won?
Analyst Hassan Hassan on President Assad鈥檚 support among the Syrian people.
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The Why Factor: Addiction - Why Do Some People Succumb to it?
Why does pleasure and desire lead to addiction in some people but not others?
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麻豆社 Trending: Facebook and Marijuana
Facebook removes pages that advertise and promote the use and sale of marijuana.
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From Our Own Correspondent - Venezuela
Venezuela's economy is struggling, but Grace Livingstone hears farmers still like Chavez.
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The Inquiry: Why don鈥檛 we eradicate mosquitoes?
Heather Ferguson says we should focus our efforts on a small minority of mosquitoes.
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More or Less - Fishy Numbers?
There were reports recently that there will more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050.
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麻豆社 Trending: Can You Ever Stop a Meme?
Texan mother succeeds in having a cruel meme which mocked her son removed.
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From Our Own Correspondent: Sweden Considers Joining Nato
Paul Adams visits the Baltic island of Gotland as Sweden is considering joining Nato
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The Inquiry: How Did Iceland Clean up its Banks?
Gudrun Johnsen on how she helped make sense of Iceland鈥檚 banking collapse
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The Why Factor: Why is Water exceptional?
What does water mean to us?
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麻豆社 Trending: The Police Who Ran Away Moments Before An Assassination
Footage of a shooting in Mexico shows armed police fleeing the scene just beforehand.
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From Our Own Correspondent - Belarus
Alex Kirby is pleasantly surprised by Belarus - not the bleak oppressed place he thought.
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The Inquiry: Are we fighting cancer the right way?
Dr Vincent DeVita says rules and regulations are stifling innovation
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麻豆社 Trending: Are British Muslim Women 鈥楾raditionally Submissive鈥�?
Muslim women tweet using #traditionallysubmissive to prove how they are anything but
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From Our Own Correspondent: Sexual Equality Class for Refugees in Finland
Emma Jane Kirby visits a Finnish sexual equality class for refugees from Muslim countries
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The Inquiry: How Has the US Gun Lobby Been so Successful?
The National Rifle Association is one of the most powerful organisations in the US
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麻豆社 Trending: China鈥檚 Online Search For Stolen Children
Chinese parents turn to social media and the web to hunt for abducted children
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From Our Own Correspondent: Sing a Song of Sami Pride
Petroc Trelawny sees - and hears - indigenous identity gaining a new energy in Norway
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The Inquiry: What Is China Doing to Clear the Air?
Dr Jim Zhang explains how air pollution in China damages unborn babies
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19/01/2016 GMT
A chance to hear extracts from some of our most thought provoking broadcasts.
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麻豆社 Trending: Online Rape Stories 鈥� Truth or Fiction?
Believing or blaming the victim - two rape stories test fiction and reality in SA.
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From Our Own Correspondent: Tarara - from communism to kitesurfing
One Cuban seaside town has hosted Che Guevara, Chernobyl survivors, and now kitesurfers
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The Inquiry: Do We Have Enough Genders?
Brin Bixby, who is bi-gender, says gender is a spectrum
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The Why Factor: Hunting
Why do we hunt? Why kill animals when we no longer need to do so to eat?
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Trending: The 'Rosa Parks' of Saudi Arabia
We speak to a black Saudi woman who is being trolled for marrying an American white man
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From Our Own Correspondent: Retaking Ramadi
Thomas Fessy was with the Iraqi forces driving Islamic State out of a central Iraqi city
