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Astrophysicist Joshua Winn on giant planets formation, the puzzle of their sizes, and discovery of exoplanets

Heon Sang Lee: “The e-skin is sensitive enough to detect one hair strand and acoustic sounds”

Chemical engineer Heon Sang Lee on nanocomposites, e-skins, and ferroelectricity

Quantizing Gravity

Theoretical physicist Xavier Bekaert on quantum interaction, coupling constant, and properties of gravity

Statistics and State in USSR

Historian Alain Blum on statistics as a tool of government and propaganda, the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s, and unresolved social problems

Cell Cycle and Cancer

Director of Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Richard Pestell, on the links between the cell cycle and cancer, the role of kinases, and new possible treatments

The Legacy of World War I Today

Historian Jay M. Winter on the Arab world after World War I, 20th century authoritarian regimes and long-term effects of World War I in today’s politics

Student Life in the Medieval Universities

Historian Peter Jones on the seven liberal arts, first textbooks and drinking as part of the student culture

Psychologist Daniel Müllensiefen on our ability to remember musical elements, music in different cultures and commercial pop music research

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

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