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Cassini Mission

Physicist David Southwood on the history of the Cassini mission, landing on Titan and why does humanity need to explore space

History of Laughter

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

Self-recognition

Neuroscientist Onur Güntürkün on the ability of self-recognition, the mirror test and why pigeons are frightened of their own reflection

Mathematician Gareth Jones on number theory, why there are infinitely many of prime numbers and how to calculate the proportion of prime numbers up to any given n

Arts and Public Health

Psychoneuroimmunologist Daisy Fancourt on the effect arts have on our well-being, the correlation between reading fiction and health behavior and how arts can treat chronic pain

Evolution of Popular Music

Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi on the reconstruction of the history of music, revolutions in music and the importance of hip-hop

Cognition Without a Cortex

Neuroscientist Onur Güntürkün on mammalian brain, ravens’ ability to plan into future and why birds are so intelligent

Aristotle’s Biology

Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi on the first studies of animal anatomy, ancient works on nature and the influence Aristotle has made on the modern biology

The Big Bang Theory

Theoretical Physicist Ugo Moschella on the history of the Universe, symmetry breaking and the Electroweak theory

Ruth Penfold-Mounce: ‘We’re seeing death as a form of entertainment rather than being disturbed by what we’re witnessing’

Sociologist Ruth Penfold-Mounce about death awareness events, ethical challenges that we face and how violent death in media affects our behavior

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