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John Worrall

Popper and Kuhn on Theory Change

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Jonathan Birch

Animal Sentience

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Jürgen Schmidhuber

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Alexey Kornyshev

Electrochemical Metamaterials

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Lauren Stewart

Effect of Music on the Brain

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Jonathan Birch

Cultural Evolution of Altruism

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Jeffrey Taylor

Scientific Examination of Art

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Mathias Disney

Radiation and Land Surface

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Jonathan Butterworth

The Impact of Higgs Boson Discovery

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

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

Cultural Evolution of Altruism

Philosopher Jonathan Birch on memes, cultural evolution and the difference in altruistic behaviour between humans and chimpanzees

The Role of Science in Art

Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on the art market, the ‘American Leonardo’ and why connoisseurship doesn't work in a court of law

Knowledge in Art

Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on connoisseurship, how can we tell an original painting from a copy and why lesser details are so important in art

The Nature of Language

Linguist David Adger on the similarities between all the languages, creation of the new grammatical rules and how social factors affect your word choice

Materiality in the History of Christianity

Peter Jones on the medieval obsession with relics, Christian heresies and why we shouldn’t reduce objects just down to their function or purpose

The New Science of Culture

Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi on the division into natural sciences and humanities, how to read art using the machine learning and why culture should be studied as an evolutionary science

History of Laughter

Peter Jones on three theories of laughter, humour as a way of doing politics and how laughter was perceived in the Medieval Europe

Anthropology of Revolution

Social anthropologist Martin Holbraad on different approaches to revolution as a subject of an anthropological research, the role of every-day experience, and personal transformation of people involved in a revolution

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