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Scientific Examination of Art

Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on the documentation techniques in art forensics, types of paints and how can we use spectrum analysis to detect art forgeries

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Popper and Kuhn on Theory Change

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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

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Animal Sentience

Group Theory

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Medieval Universities

Historian Peter Jones on the first European universities, different models of the education regulation and the proliferation of universities at the end of the Middle Ages

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Liberal Arts Education

Daniel Kontowski on the idea of liberal education, its learning outcomes and the consumerist approach to education

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Overqualification in Employment

David Dussault on the value of PhD, the needs of the employers and why a career trajectory should not be linear

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Education in the Middle Ages

Historian Peter Jones on monastic education, cathedral schools and apprenticeship in the Middle Ages

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Brain Organoids

Neurobiologist Madeline Lancaster on brain development, cerebral organoids and how close they are to actually being brains

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Panopticon in Russia

Historian of Science Simon Werret on Michel Foucault, the Grigory Potemkin’s estate and theatricality of Samuel Bentham’s panopticon

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Ultrafast Reactions

Chemist David Phillips on the photolysis, reaction dynamics and how to understand the movement of atoms in a molecule

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Applications of Deep Neural Networks

Why do we need neural networks and how do we train them 

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Artificial Neural Networks

How artificial neural networks are trained and used in industry

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Online Counselling Psychology

Psychologist Terry Hanley on the history of distant counselling, the outcomes of the online therapy and the new skills counselors need to develop