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Overqualification in Employment

David Dussault on the value of PhD, the needs of the employers and why a career trajectory should not be linear

Dessins d’Enfants

Mathematician Gareth Jones on compact Riemann surfaces, algebraic numbers and what is the absolute Galois group

Genetics of Color Adaptation

Prof. Hopi Hoekstra of Harvard University on beneficial mutations, wild mice as a model system, and patterns of genetic variation

Depression: Symptoms and Treatment

Psychiatrist Gerard Sanacora on new methods of treatment of depression and disease's impact on emotion, cognition and behavior

National Identity in the Age of Migration

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

General Anesthesia

Professor Emery Brown of MIT on what has to be monitored during anesthesia, side effects of inhalational anesthetics, intravenous drugs, opioids and narcotics

Huntington’s Disease

Molecular Neurogeneticist David Rubinsztein on neurodegenerative diseases, tetrabenazine, and aggregate-prone proteins

The first mass extinction of complex life

The new research sheds light on the factos that led to the mysterious extinction of Ediacara biota

Two Theories of Language Acquisition

Psychologist Ben Ambridge on the Chomskyan concept of the universal grammar, the constructivist approach to language acquisition, and grammatical similarities across different languages

Identifying Adaptive Mutations

Biologist Hopi Hoekstra on sand dunes of Nebraska, agouti signaling protein, and adaptation to the habitat

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