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The Science of Laughter

Neuroscientist Sophie Scott on contagion effects in laughter, conduct disorder, and the tribes of Namibia

Astrophysicist Simon White on dark matter, its role in explaining the formation of the universe, and the challenges that physicists face in trying to identify it

Dynamic Causal Modelling

Neuroscientist Karl Friston on functional specialization of different brain areas, brain hierarchy, and the connectome

Innate immunity

Molecular biologist Greg Towers on interferons, uninfectable cells, and how breaking a virus can actually help it to infect the cell

National Identity in the Age of Migration

Sociologist Peter Kivisto on Eugen Weber, settler states, and Jihadist terrorism

Space Exploration

Cosmologist Martin Rees on the history of space exploration, Sat Nav, and why robots are better than humans for space exploration

Deep Brain Stimulation

Physiologist John Stein on Parkinson's disease, the applications of deep brain stimulation, and its side effects

Social Cognition

Neuropsychologist Chris Frith on the experiments with biological motion, emotion recognition, and open questions of cognitive psychology

Prions: Diseases and Treatment

Molecular biologist Byron Caughey on the structure of prions, prion diseases, and their causes and treatment

Psychologist Alan Baddeley on his own model of working memory, its capacity and location in the brain

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