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Geographer Anson Mackay on the ecosystem services, the demands on freshwater around the Earth and the decline in biodiversity

Genetic Diversity in Humans

Geneticist Steve Jones on the history of genetics, protein diversity, and why every person is truly unique

Standard Cosmological Model

Astrostatistician Alan Heavens on the expanding Universe, cosmological constant, and why our cosmological model may be incomplete

Language and Artificial Intelligence

Linguist David Adger on the Facebook chatbots experiment, the history of getting the AI to understand and speak human languages and what’s the difference between humans and computers in using language

Neurobiology of Mood Disorders

Psychiatrist Guy Goodwin on the monoamine theory of depression, cognitive behaviour therapy and why some people are more affected by depressions than others

Accelerated Ageing in COPD

Respiratory scientist Peter Barnes on cellular senescence, sirtuins and how can we reverse some of the chronic diseases of ageing

Glaciologist Martin Siegert on the ice sheets in Greenland and in Antarctica, the Larsen Ice Shelf and how the glaciers melt

Quantum Theory of Chemical Reactions

Chemist David Clary on quantum tunnelling, the rates of chemical reactions and how Schrödinger's equation helps us in chemical industry

Mathematician Gareth Jones on abelian and non-abelian groups, the symmetry of geometric objects and what are the principles a group must satisfy

Voluntary Action

Cognitive neuroscientist Patrick Haggard on the definition of voluntary action, what are the underlying mental processes of volition and whether we have a conscious free will

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