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Metal-eating microbes and the industrial revolution
A freshwater basin in the heart of Africa offers a glimpse into one of Earth’s early oceans and shows how a tiny group of microbes could develop the biggest iron-deposits on Earth
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Academic Freedom in Medieval Universities
Historian Peter Jones on Peter Abelard, logical analysis of the Scripture and what was the role of the universities in the Middle Ages
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Working Memory
Psychologist Alan Baddeley on his own model of working memory, its capacity and location in the brain
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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
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Microbiome
Biologist Tim Spector on the overall weight of our microbes, remembering our natural roots, and the importance of getting dirty
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Dialetheic Solutions to the Liar Paradox
Philosopher Stephen Read on non-classical logic, Curry's paradox, and modus ponens
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Microengineered Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering
Bioengineer Ali Khademhosseini on creating new biomaterials, microengineering, and mimicking embryonic development
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Prevention of Diabetes
Epidemologist Nick Wareham on how social and economic changes can contribute to the prevention of diabetes, the most balanced diet, and genetic predisposition to the disease
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Neuroscientist John Krystal on flashbacks, relative merits of different treatments, and brain tissue collection
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The Library Beyond the Book
Harvard Professor Jeffrey Schnapp on the redundancy between digital and analogue formats, physically assembled communities, and multiple types of libraries
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