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Moons of Jupiter

Physicist Michele Dougherty on the exploration of Jupiter’s moons, Europa’s ice crust and the internal ocean on Ganymede

Genetic Diversity in Humans

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Visual Perspective Taking

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Laws of Growth and Natural Selection

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Language of Politics

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Education in the Middle Ages

Historian Peter Jones on monastic education, cathedral schools and apprenticeship in the Middle Ages

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Atom Laser

Physicist Daniel Kleppner on Bose-Einstein condensation, atom beams, and quantum computers

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Undecidable Problems

Mathematician Gareth Jones on Gödel's incompleteness theorem, the halting problem and why the subsets of the natural numbers are uncountably infinite

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The Role of Mitochondria in Aging and Disease

Biologist David Sinclair on alphaproteobacteria, reactive oxygen species, and why the nucleus and the mitochondrial genome are like a married couple

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Nanomedicine for Drug Delivery

Prof. Srinivas Sridhar of Northeastern University on early detection of cancer, drug targeting by nanoparticles, and applying nanotechnology to key medical challenges

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Genetics of the Nature

Geneticist Steve Jones on obesity, biology of Homos and genetics' influence on people's lives

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Random Neural Networks

Computer scientist Erol Gelenbe on the communication of neurons, mathematical properties of the random neural networks and how can they be applied

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“Your kids are what you eat”

Descendants of starved worms appear to be more resistant to starvation and heat stress

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Ethics for an Age of Commerce

Economist Deirdre McCloskey on fundamental human virtues, their secular interpretation and necessary application in modern economy

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Chemical Chain Reactions

Chemist David Phillips on chemical kinetics, exothermic reactions, and the use of nuclear reactions in peaceful purposes