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The World Ahead: Pandemic predictions

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As the covid-19 situation worsens, host Tom Standage explores what the pandemic reveals about the perils of prediction and what other future threats we might be overlooking. Also, what a simulation of a future mission to Mars could teach us about self-isolation on Earth today. And, the hit video game โ€œPlague, Incโ€ is teaching players about the dynamics of pandemicsโ€”and how to stop them.

 

Music by Chris Zabriskie "Candlepower" (CC by 4.0)

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