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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

Popper and Kuhn on Theory Change

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Animal Sentience

AI specialist Jürgen Schmidhuber on inductive inference, universal Solomonoff prior and measuring probability of different events

AI specialist Jürgen Schmidhuber on Kurt Gödel, meta learning and fundamental limitations of computability

When will we run out of fresh water?

Geographer Anson Mackay on the freshwater resources, planetary boundaries and lake Urmia

Chemist David Phillips on the electron spin, singlet states and the singlet oxygen

Causal Hypotheses in Medicine

Professor of Philosophy of Science John Worrall on the difference between correlation and causation, controlled experiments and the placebo effect

Climate Observations

Meteorologist Chris Brierley on the first measurements of climate, weather forecasts and how can we double check the accuracy of the old climate readings

Skull Modularity in Evolutionary Morphology

Biologist Arkhat Abzhanov on morphological diversity in birds, Hawaiian honeycreepers and how data on skull modularity can help to treat craniofacial abnormalities in humans

Long Short-Term Memory

AI specialist Jürgen Schmidhuber on backpropagation, vanishing and exploding gradient problems and how LSTM helps to improve speech recognition

Radiation and Land Surface

Geographer Mathias Disney on the Sun's spectrum, albedo and why plants and animals are sensitive to a very specific part of the overall spectrum

Deep Feedforward Neural Networks

AI specialist Jürgen Schmidhuber on the first deep networks, backpropagation and whether you can train a network without unsupervised pre-training

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