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Peer Fischer

How nanorobots are used in medicine?

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Diana Omigie

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Patrick Haggard

Voluntary Action

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Ugo Moschella

The Big Bang Theory

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David Adger

The Nature of Language

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Daniel Müllensiefen

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Karl Friston

Karl Friston: “The hallmark of a good scientist is asking questions that no-one has asked before”

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Diana Omigie

Perception of Music

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Ruth Penfold-Mounce

Ruth Penfold-Mounce: ‘We’re seeing death as a form of entertainment rather than being disturbed by what we’re witnessing’

The Role of Science in Art

Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on the art market, the ‘American Leonardo’ and why connoisseurship doesn't work in a court of law

Knowledge in Art

Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on connoisseurship, how can we tell an original painting from a copy and why lesser details are so important in art

The Nature of Language

Linguist David Adger on the similarities between all the languages, creation of the new grammatical rules and how social factors affect your word choice

Materiality in the History of Christianity

Historian Peter Jones on the medieval obsession with relics, Christian heresies and why we shouldn’t reduce objects just down to their function or purpose

The New Science of Culture

Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi on the division into natural sciences and humanities, how to read art using the machine learning and why culture should be studied as an evolutionary science

History of Laughter

Historian Peter Jones on three theories of laughter, humour as a way of doing politics and how laughter was perceived in the Medieval Europe

Anthropology of Revolution

Social anthropologist Martin Holbraad on different approaches to revolution as a subject of an anthropological research, the role of every-day experience, and personal transformation of people involved in a revolution

Cuban Cultures of Revolution

Social anthropologist Martin Holbraad on revolutionary transformations, Afro-Cuban religion, and the way revolution shapes every-day life

Social Сondenser and Socialist Urban Planning

Social anthropologist Michal Murawski on the soviet constructivism in architecture, the origins of the concept 'microrayon', and the ideas behind soviet Khrushchevki-buildings

Media scientist Renira Rampazzo Gambarato on the freedom of speech online, netiquette, and the importance of media literacy acquisition in the modern world

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