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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

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Neurologist Kevin Talbot on the history of neurological research, genetics of ALS and the modern view on the origin and propagation of the motor neuron dysfunction

Geographer Mathias Disney on carbonate deposits in the ocean, how wildfires release the carbon in the atmosphere and why it’s so hard to model the interactions between the biota and the carbon cycle

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

Fundamental Interactions

Physicist Jonathan Butterworth on the term ‘fundamental’, the forces of the Standard model and why gravity is so hard to investigate

Treatment of Aging

Biogerontologist David Gems on the innate plasticity in aging, senolytic drugs and whether we should expect dramatic breakthrough in the aging field

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

Magnetic Field of Saturn

Physicist Michele Dougherty on the planetary dynamo, Cassini’s flybys of Saturn and why the nature of the magnetic field of Saturn remains unknown

Earth’s Magnetospere

Physicist David Southwood on how the magnetic field of Earth causes natural losses of spacecraft, the aurorae and why it’s important to study plasma physics

Bipolar Disorder

Psychiatrist Guy Goodwin on the causes of bipolar disorder, why manic episodes are so dangerous and what medicines can be used to stabilise the mood

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

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