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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, 2 months 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…
5 years, 2 months ago
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, 2 months 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, …
5 years, 2 months ago
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…
5 years, 2 months ago
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…
5 years, 2 months ago
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…
5 years, 2 months ago
Mata Hari: Femme Fatales
Mata Hari was an erotic dancer who, in 1917, was executed by the French army for treason. She has been portrayed as the ultimate femme fatale, extrac…
5 years, 2 months ago
Vaccination
All of the UK adult population is to be offered a COVID-19 Vaccination by September 2021. Many other countries are aiming for similar roll-outs in on…
5 years, 2 months ago
Mathematical Journeys into Fictional Worlds
Literary satire has long used mathematical concepts to reinforce its points. Gulliver’s Travels (1724) played with ideas of dimension, size, and shap…
5 years, 2 months ago