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Does The State Really Care When It Kills You?
Does The State Really Care When It Kills You?

This lecture will focus on human rights and the wrongs of unexpected and/or sudden deaths in which the state is implicated.

It will cover the importan…

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Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery
Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery

We all need experts for things we can't do ourselves. And we are all on a path to becoming expert ourselves, whatever our areas of interest. But…

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Srebrenica: the New Evidence
Srebrenica: the New Evidence

2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre and the Dayton Accords resolution of the first two (Croatia and Bosnia) of the three Balka…

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The World of Isaac Newton
The World of Isaac Newton

This illustrated lecture will cover Newton's life and his mathematical and scientific labours in the context of 17th-century England, and featur…

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Number Theory: Queen of Mathematics
Number Theory: Queen of Mathematics

In which years does February have five Sundays? How many right-angled triangles with whole-number sides have a side of length 29? How many shuffles a…

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Russian Piano Masterpieces: Musorgsky
Russian Piano Masterpieces: Musorgsky

Musorgsky was a proficient, but not virtuosic pianist: in his youth, he entertained society ladies with popular marches and quadrilles, and in his la…

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England's Catholic Reformation
England's Catholic Reformation

England's Catholic Reformation is the reformation that sixteenth-century England nearly had: a reformed and renewed English Catholic Church, its…

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Looking for Life On Mars
Looking for Life On Mars

Mars has changed since it formed 4.6 billion years ago. When life started on Earth ~4 billion years ago, Mars was habitable too, with volcanism, a ma…

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The Psychology of the Stock Market
The Psychology of the Stock Market

The Efficient Market Hypothesis argues that stock markets are rational - they take into account all relevant information, and incorporate it in an un…

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Offensive Shakespeare
Offensive Shakespeare

From The Merchant of Venice to The Taming of the Shrew, it's easy to see how Shakespeare's plays can cause offence to contemporary audience…

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