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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

AI specialist Jürgen Schmidhuber on credit assignment, recurrent neural networks and how can you solve the parity problem with a network of only five connections

Effect of Music on the Brain

Psychologist Lauren Stewart on the musical perception, the emotional effects of listening to music and how can people with congenital amusia appreciate music

Crossmedia, Multimedia and Transmedia

Media Scientist Renira Rampazzo Gambarato on three different types of transmedia stories, ‘The Matrix’ and why do we need transmedia stories

Electrochemical Metamaterials

Chemical physicist Alexey Kornyshev on metamaterials, plasmonics and Raman scattering

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