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What Can We Do About Rising Obesity?
The rising prevalence of obesity is a major threat to current and future health of individuals, the public, and the NHS. It is sometimes seen as too …
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Spying for Queen and Country
Spying for Queen Elizabeth I was very different from modern-day intelligence services - or was it? This lecture brings together historian Stephen Alf…
4 years, 11 months ago
Darwin‘s Troubled Legacy
Darwin’s Descent of Man was dominated by the theory of sexual selection, which Darwin used to explain peacock’s tails, but also to argue that white p…
4 years, 11 months ago
Nurse Ratched: Evil Nurses
Nurse Ratched is the evil nurse in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962). She is the Evil Woman as autocratic, the absolute power in a p…
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Royal Restoration: Estates of the Duke of Monmouth
Charles II‘s illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, became one of the most influential and powerful men at the Restoration court. He married a Scott…
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The Mistakes CEOs Make
We often think that leaders are particularly strong in decision making – that’s why they’ve made it to the top. But evidence shows that even senior e…
4 years, 11 months ago
Could Streaming Change the 'Classic Film' Canon?
Cinema's original canons were based on a small number of works most highly esteemed by archivists and historians. But access to the history of f…
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England’s Protestant Reformation
When England’s Reformation began, only a small band of idealists – or fanatics – truly wanted a Protestant England. Nevertheless, within a single lif…
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Computers: A History
Even the most humdrum of electrical devices nowadays contains at least one computer; yet surprisingly few people are aware of their history, their fo…
4 years, 11 months ago
Mathematical Structure in Fiction
Mathematical concepts have often been used to create new structural forms in fiction, as in the works of Raymond Queneau and Jorge Luis Borges.
The m…
4 years, 11 months ago