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Early Protestant Missions to Jews, Muslims and Pagans: A Dangerous Model
European Protestant and evangelical Christians did not have to look far to find ‘infidels’ in the 16th and 17th centuries: as well as the ‘pagans’ of…
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Women in Science Fiction
For thousands of years, some men assumed that the original or ideal human type was male, with women being pictured as weaker or imperfect men. This a…
4 years, 5 months ago
Food- and Drink-Borne Diseases
Many major diseases are transmitted by food or drink. Cholera (water), brucellosis (milk), BSE/nvCJD, typhoid and many parasites are ingested as part…
4 years, 5 months ago
Compression
When you tune into Netflix you might not be aware that the box in your living room starts a complex set of negotiations with servers on moving 563 Gb…
4 years, 5 months ago
Free Thinking and the Rule of Law
The law has been used to impose religious and moral conformity and uniformity of thought at many times in history, perhaps most (in)famously in the t…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Maths of Beauty and Symmetry
People have always found symmetry aesthetically pleasing and examples of it are seen in the earliest art. The Platonic solids have been known to huma…
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How can music be “Socialist Realist”?
This lecture will investigate the genesis of the Socialist Realism doctrine, which was imposed in 1934.
The 'proletarian music' trend of th…
4 years, 5 months ago
Holocaust History Under Siege
For the second Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture, Professor Jan Grabowski will discuss how scholars of the Holocaust find themselves co…
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Nature's Numbers: Natural Capital Accounting
How can nature be accounted for? How can we track how we are using nature and ensure we are not destroying the environment? Natural Capital is becomi…
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Einstein’s Blunder
When Albert Einstein tweaked his newly invented equations of General Relativity in 1917, he had one goal in mind: to find a solution that described a…
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