'Have the media learnt nothing?'

'Have the media learnt nothing?.' Last week professor Jason Arday was found dead after resigning from his post at Cambridge University. He'd been at the centre of a plagarism row which built into an unnecessary media pile on. Cody and Becky reflect on the media's role in this and their disbelief that it felt like a homogeneous, unnuanced response.

And Darwin is right again, this time about tickling. Plus Mark Zuckerberg had achieved the impossible and become even more unlikeable as sales of his Meta glasses go through the roof.

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Here are the headlines discussed in this episode:

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/charles-darwin-theory-of-ticklishness-qt8sb95jl

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/aug/19/meta-glasses-privacy-surveillance

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