Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Shape of Plants: Why Plants Love Mathematics and Mathematicians Love Plants - Alain Goriely
Watch the Q&A session here: https://youtu.be/Lv5h-Pp1r6s
Looking at the plant world, one discovers beautiful and fascinating structures in the shape a…
2 months, 1 week ago
Becoming AI – Your Journey to Assimilation? - Matt Jones
Wittgenstein wrote: “If a lion could talk, we would not understand it”. That is, as lions and humans are not of the same material, they could not say…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Limitarianism and Capitalism - Ingrid Robeyns
Limitarianism holds that it is immoral to have personal wealth above a certain level. Is this idea compatible with capitalism? Defenders of capitalis…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Do Not Resuscitate Forms - Who’d Have One? - Mark Taubert
In this lecture, Mark Taubert, who chairs the national DNACPR policy for Wales, and is a palliative care clinician, reviews current practices. He wil…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Great God Pan: Lord of the Wild - Ronald Hutton
Pan started as a shepherds’ god in a wild and backward area of Greece, but became one of the best-known in the Greek and Roman world. This was partly…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother - Lord Daniel Finkelstein
Watch the Q&A session here: https://youtu.be/oQeUePfTrEQ
The Royal Historical Society Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture.
In April 1945, British forces lib…
3 months ago
China’s Economic Prospects on the Cusp - George Magnus
China has important islands of technological excellence, even dominance, but these islands exist in a sea of macroeconomic imbalances and headwinds. …
3 months ago
Ocean: The Liquid Engine That Dominates Our Planet
We often talk about living on a blue planet, but when we think we’re talking about the ocean we’re generally only discussing what’s in it: fish, whal…
3 months, 1 week ago
Music of Animals - Milton Mermikides
Do animals make music? Are the languages of whales and birds truly songs? To answer this, we must first understand what we mean by music as human ani…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Economics of Work and Technology - Daniel Susskind
Watch the Q&A session here: https://youtu.be/v0RoRG2YA-0
Why has automation anxiety – the fear that new technologies cause mass unemployment – proven …
3 months, 2 weeks ago