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Does Philanthropy do the Public Good?
Philanthropy has long played a key role in our communities on local, national, and global scales. Yet if we have often assumed that giving is good, w…
4 years, 1 month ago
Psychosis: Our Default Mental State?
Psychosis is a mental state where people experience a 'different' world. If, as clinical psychiatry and neuroscience suggests, it is our &a…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Beauty of Geometrical Curves
The path traced out by a given point on the rim of a circle as you roll it along a straight line is a beautiful curve called a cycloid, whose appeal …
4 years, 1 month ago
Human Rights in the UK and the Commonwealth Caribbean
The Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic law, was a landmark moment in British legal histo…
4 years, 1 month ago
How Protestant Missionaries Encountered Slavery
The entire Atlantic economy in the 17th and 18th centuries was based on the enslavement of (mostly) non-Christian Africans. As this lecture will show…
4 years, 1 month ago
Cellular Phones
The most commonly used computer in the world is surely the one in your hand. Mobile or cellular telephony is nowadays hardly about telephony at all, …
4 years, 1 month ago
Coincidences in the Novel: Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot to Evelyn Waugh and David Nicholls
If, as displeased reviewers and readers sometimes complain, coincidences mar good plots, why do so many novels turn on them? From Charlotte Brontë an…
4 years, 1 month ago
Innovators and Entrepreneurs in a Wellbeing Economy
What will the characteristics of successful innovators and entrepreneurs be in a wellbeing economy?
In this lecture, we look at how the Wellbeing Eco…
4 years, 1 month ago
Life in a Revolutionary Decade in Britain (1649-1660)
What was life like in 1649-1660, Britain's only decade as a republic?
This lecture explores the immense changes of the period through the person…
4 years, 1 month ago
Coral Reefs in a Warming World
Coral reefs are transforming under climate change. What is the nature of this change and the major influences upon it? The role of common management …
4 years, 2 months ago