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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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Superfluidity of Light

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Animal Sentience

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Academic Freedom in Medieval Universities

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Education in the Middle Ages

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Scientific Examination of Art

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Student Life in the Medieval Universities

Genes and Sunlight

Geneticist Steve Jones on skin cancer, the effect of vitamin D and why the sunlight is good for health and dangerous at the same time

Genome Annotation

Bioinformatician Tim Hubbard on the process of identifying genes, protein genes and RNA genes, and how many genes are there in the human genome

Genes and the Environment

Geneticist Steve Jones on the nature-nurture controversy, genetics of obesity and how can you solve genetic promlems by changing the environment

Self-construction

Neuroscientist Onur Güntürkün on depersonalization, the rubber hand illusion and how synchronous nerve impulses create the feeling that your body is your body

Self-recognition

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

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

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

Theory of Evolution

Geneticist Steve Jones on why DNA is a language, how biology was invented as a science and why Charles Darwin had to write the Origins of Species in a hurry

Causes of Aging

Biogerontologist David Gems on different aging theories and the impact of genes on aging

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