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Renaissance Maps of Paradise

Historian Alessandro Scafi on the four rivers of paradise, Calvin's mapping of Eden, and the first attempts to imagine heaven not on Earth

Type 2 Diabetes

Epidemologist Nick Wareham on the discovery of insulin, clinical diagnostic tests for diabetes, and the thrifty metabolism hypothesis

Social Motivation

Neuroscientist Antonia Hamilton on the practical use of the neuropsychological laboratory research, the difference between static and dynamic image perception, and how motivation can be measured

Neuroscientist Karl Friston on different types of brain measurement techniques, people's reaction to emotional stimuli, and the possibility of brain mapping

What is Symmetry?

Physicist Xavier Bekaert on the properties of symmetry, homogeneity of universe, and why every point in the space is the same

Computer Vision

Computer scientist Cordelia Schmid on computers’ ability to recognize and produce images, machine learning, and artificial intelligence

Radiative Forcing of Climate Change

Physicist Joanna D. Haigh on greenhouse gases, the impact of aerosols on climate change, and how clouds reflect radiation

Shlomo Izre'el on the myths about the Hebrew language, its relations with Yiddish, and how children teach their parents

Biologist Tim Spector on the overall weight of our microbes, remembering our natural roots, and the importance of getting dirty

Genetics and Intelligence

Robert Plomin on IQ tests, genetic predispositions to higher or lower intelligence, and the Flynn Effect

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