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Machine Learning and the 4th Industrial Revolution
AI technology is already changing the face of the world as we know it.
This lecture looks at the reasons why AI is hailed as an unprecedented revoluti…
3 years, 3 months ago
The End of our Sun
Our nearest star, that is the engine sustaining life on Earth, will one day run out of fuel. When this happens, the Sun will start expanding dramatic…
3 years, 3 months ago
Polio: A Cultural History
Polio has a major role in the cultural history of the West. The early symptoms – which were often mild flu-like symptoms – would end in paralysis. Va…
3 years, 3 months ago
What Is the Exposome and Why Does It Matter to Your Health?
Our health and susceptibility to disease are not wholly written in our genes. They are influenced throughout our lives by the environments in which w…
3 years, 3 months ago
Adultery in the Novel, from Flaubert to Sally Rooney
Adultery became the subject of some of the greatest European novels of the nineteenth century, including Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina. English nov…
3 years, 3 months ago
Partition of British India: 75 Years On
The 2022 Royal Historical Society Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture
The partition of British India in 1947 was the world’s largest migration outside war …
3 years, 4 months ago
What is the Metaverse?
What exactly is the Metaverse? And is it really that new?
This talk will explore our emotional connections to cyberspace, our feelings of presence and…
3 years, 4 months ago
Should We Permit Voluntary Assisted Dying?
The English courts have wrestled with challenges to the restrictions on euthanasia and assisted suicide for years, while the government has resisted …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Politics of Fabric and Fashion in Africa 1960-Today
1960 was the year of Africa. Over seventeen countries rid themselves of colonial rule and a new sense of pride in being Black and African was express…
3 years, 4 months ago
Let’s Decolonise the History of Mathematical Proofs!
What is a “valid mathematical proof”? To inquire into such a hotly debated question we might want to look at how past mathematicians tackled this que…
3 years, 4 months ago