Doomscroll Remedy
Doomscroll Remedy
Latest Episodes
Reality check – talking to someone wrapped up in a conspiracy theory
“I don't think anyone really wakes up one day, gasping for breath and thinking everyone else is a lizard.” Like Molly, you probably know someone who has tried to convince you that vaccines are full of mind-controlling nanobot...
Why am I like this? What happens to our bodies and brains when anxiety takes over
What’s been keeping you up at night lately? Is it the pandemic? Has work been stressing you out lately? Or the fact your Great Aunt thinks the world is run by lizard people? Oh, or maybe it’s the fact that the ocean’s full of plasti...
Storms that bring fire – using artificial intelligence in Australia’s bushfire crisis
When you’re on the frontline of a raging bushfire, every second counts. Life-saving decisions have to be made in seconds, and anyone who’s lived through a bushfire can tell you the difference 5, 10 or 15 minutes can make. ...
Not so fantastic: is there plastic in my brain?
"I think we've been quite naïve in terms of how we've dealt with plastic and how we've let it contaminate every sphere of the environment: from the highest points of the Himalayas to the deep ocean trenches, we find plastic now."Pr...
Stop the doomscroll spiral – meet the people living through the existential threats that keep us up at night, and the ones trying to solve them
When your feed is filled with crushing news, conspiracy theories and existential threats (climate change who?), life can seem pretty overwhelming. But that’s why in Doomscroll Remedy, we’re going deeper in an attempt to better ...
