ePODstemology

About ePODstemology

Medicine for intellectual boredom. Host Dr Mark Fabian of Cambridge University brings together an eclectic mix of creative young folk to discuss the most stimulating ideas at the knowledge frontier, from data governance to the metamodern cultural mode, and everything in between. The world's most thoughtful people, having a chat - and you're invited! So turn off your socials, throw away your popular science books, and get ready for some legit galaxy brain takes. Thanks to Keith Spangle for the spaceship cat avatar https://www.deviantart.com/keithspangle

Publisher

Mark Fabian

Category

education · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Apr 2021

Latest episode

24 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 64 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   24 Jun 2026

   AI in government

   Dr Aleksei Turobov is an Assistant Professor at the Bennett School of Public Policy. His research examines the critical gap between the global ambitions of AI policy and the practical realities of its implementation. He leads research for the AIxGeo project, using a mixed-methods approach that combines AI-driven thematic analysis with network analysis to map the emergent coalitions and narratives shaping international AI policy and governance. Dr Turobov argues that the success of global gove...

2. 

   27 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Eat your way to a better world

   Paul Behrens is British Academy Global Professor at the University of Oxford and Reapra Senior Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre there. He is an industrial ecologist examining how the ways we produce our lives and the things we consume in them are related to environment stress, especially climate change. In this episode, we discuss the role of demand management in averting ecological disaster - demand management here referring to reducing or changing unsustainable consumption p...

3. 

   28 Apr 2026

   Video games and the zeitgeist

   Dr Stephen Mallory is assistant professor of game design at Lawrence Technical University in Southfield, Michigan. After a career in the video game industry, Stephen turned his considerable intellect to analysing games as an aspect of digimodernism - the contemporary cultural phenomenon where much of our lived experience, indeed, our reality and even sense of self, is mediated through digital technologies, artifacts, and environments. His research is especially concerned with the intersection...

Inside a recent episode

Eat your way to a better world

Published 27 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I just love cycling and running and walking and things. So it was really that core appreciation that if we don't sort this out, we're stuffed as an organized society. It's very difficult to understand how we could have the same throughput of resources, of materials, of emissions, of water, of all of the things that we're doing to the planet and hope to survive. And I think for me, I was more switched on by this concept of things like Spaceship Earth. which is this Kenneth Boulding idea that, you know, actually the economy does have bounds. We are all on a spaceship together. And actually there are limited flows of materials across that boundary. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

4.9 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

52

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

68

Contact ePODstemology

Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

Questions about ePODstemology