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Patrick Haggard

Voluntary Action

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David Adger

The Nature of Language

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David Adger

Language and Artificial Intelligence

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John Worrall

Popper and Kuhn on Theory Change

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Peter Jones

Medieval Universities

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Steve Jones

Genetic Diversity in Humans

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David Clary

Quantum Theory of Chemical Reactions

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Daniel Kontowski

Classical Education

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Marzena Szymanska

Superfluidity of Light

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

Self-recognition

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

Mathematician Gareth Jones on number theory, why there are infinitely many of prime numbers and how to calculate the proportion of prime numbers up to any given n

Arts and Public Health

Psychoneuroimmunologist Daisy Fancourt on the effect arts have on our well-being, the correlation between reading fiction and health behavior and how arts can treat chronic pain

Evolution of Popular Music

Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi on the reconstruction of the history of music, revolutions in music and the importance of hip-hop

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

Human Impact on Freshwater Ecosystem

Geographer Anson Mackay on freshwater pollution, acid rains and the dangers of invasive species and algal blooms

Moons of Jupiter

Physicist Michele Dougherty on the exploration of Jupiter’s moons, Europa’s ice crust and the internal ocean on Ganymede

Historian Peter Jones on love as a contract, religious love in middle ages and why love is tied to self-sacrifice

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