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    Peter Jones
    Medieval Universities
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    John Worrall
    Popper and Kuhn on Theory Change
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    Daniel Kontowski
    Classical Education
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    Marzena Szymanska
    Superfluidity of Light
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    Jonathan Birch
    Animal Sentience
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    Peter Jones
    Academic Freedom in Medieval Universities
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    Peter Jones
    Education in the Middle Ages
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    Jeffrey Taylor
    Scientific Examination of Art
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    Peter Jones
    Student Life in the Medieval Universities
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    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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    How nanorobots are used in medicine?
    Professor of Physical Chemistry Peer Fischer on nanorobots, why are they so hard to work on and what might be their future application in medicine
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    Karl Friston: “The hallmark of a good scientist is asking questions that no-one has asked before”
    Neuroscientist Karl Friston on the development of the free energy principle, what remains unknown about the brain and how to become successful in academia
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    “My dream is that I will drive myself out of business as a scientist and will get computers to do science by themselves”
    Professor Ilya Nemenman on machine learning, the laws of biology, and the quest for a 'robot-scientist'
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    “In principle, one can make an ideal conducting channel along a designed path by just scratching the surface”
    Physicist Markus Morgenstern on weak topological insulators, 2D materials, and spin pumping
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    Xingjie Ni: “We made a device that has total control over the amplitude and the phase of the light”
    Electrical engineer Xingjie Ni on the 'invisibility cloak', metasurfaces, and nanoantennas that can control light
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    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
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    “It is the only technology that can generate electricity directly from the breakdown of waste that we throw in the bin”
    Biotechnologist Ioannis Ieropoulos on microbial fuel cells, waste treatment, and the ‘Pee-Power’ urinal
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    Federico Capasso: “You can design the optical properties of surfaces, so you can design new phenomena”
    Harvard professor Frederico Capasso on flat lenses, Cherenkov effect, and inverse method
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    What is the definition of a robot?
    Robotics expert Mel Siegel on the features that a machine must have to be called a robot, previous studies, and the future of the field
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