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Restraining Police Restraint
We hear too often about sudden death in adults following prolonged and often unnecessary police restraint. What do people know about the dangers of r…
5 years ago
Aristotle
Plato's most brilliant student and perhaps the most significant intellectual in world history, Aristotle of Stageira built on the doctrines he h…
5 years ago
Cosmic Vision: Fast & Furious
Highly energetic particles from outer space travelling at the speed of light, known as cosmic rays, originate from the sites of extreme particle acce…
5 years ago
Putting Wellbeing and Prosperity First
There is a seismic shift underway in economics, hastened by the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Communities and countries around the world are be…
5 years ago
Russian Piano Masterpieces: Stravinsky
Stravinsky’s solo piano output may be modest in size, but it contains one of the absolute pinnacles of piano virtuosity, the Three Pieces from Petrus…
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Crime in Fiction
Why did stories of criminals become irresistible for novelists? Starting with works like Moll Flanders in the eighteenth century, this lecture goes o…
5 years ago
What Clinicians Can Learn From Forensic Scientists
Clinical practice depends on the acquisition and analysis of evidence - detailed information from each patient’s clinical history, laboratory tests, …
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Should We Inherit?
Transfer of resources between currently existing generations. There is a clear link with the previous time scale, for a collective solution will mean…
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Giotto and the Early Italian Renaissance
Italo-Byzantine art will be considered as background to the early or ‘proto’ Renaissance at a time when Italy was a focus of stylistic cross-currents…
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Far From Hollywood: New Kinds of Classic Film
Canons of taste and value in other media, such as literature, art and music, have been challenged in recent decades by proponents of sexual and ethni…
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