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GPS
In 1977 or thereabouts a collection of scientists huddled around a secret radio receiver in the US desert. This was the start of GPS, Glonass, Gallil…
4 years, 6 months ago
Pleasure
Sex manuals can incite revolution. In the early 1970s a feminist collective released Our Bodies, Ourselves (1970) while 'free love' propone…
4 years, 6 months ago
Blacks Britannica: Diversity in Medieval and Early Modern England
Africans have been present in England for more than two thousand years, but we rarely see them or hear about them. And often their existence is dismi…
4 years, 6 months ago
Redesigning the World in Which We Live to Put the Planet First
How can we help human society flourish without destroying nature?
The Wellbeing Economy and Natural Capital are linked strategies that can help achie…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Immigration Act 1971: Celebrated or Flawed?
Commonwealth citizens once enjoyed the right to live, work and settle in the UK without any restrictions. But a racist backlash against Black and Asi…
4 years, 7 months ago
Early Universe
This lecture will examine the evidence for and the significance of events that unfolded in the early Universe. “Early” here refers to within the firs…
4 years, 7 months ago
Apes in Science Fiction
Because apes seem most like humans, science fiction has used them as a mirror in which to view ourselves. The philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau saw i…
4 years, 7 months ago
Modernism Rampant: Shostakovich and Mosolov
The most outrageous Russian modernist composers of the 1920s were Dmitry Shostakovich in Leningrad, and Alexander Mosolov in Moscow. They were not me…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Failure of the First Protestant Missionaries
It’s usually said that Protestant and evangelical Christians made very little missionary effort in the 16th-18th centuries. In fact, there was much m…
4 years, 7 months ago
How to Save and Invest
This lecture will explore the essentials of financial planning.
What are the different ways to save and invest, such as bank accounts, bonds, shares,…
4 years, 7 months ago