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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…
5 years, 7 months ago
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…
5 years, 7 months ago
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…
5 years, 7 months ago
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…
5 years, 7 months ago
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…
5 years, 7 months ago
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…
5 years, 7 months ago
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…
5 years, 7 months ago
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…
5 years, 7 months ago
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…
5 years, 7 months ago
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…
5 years, 7 months ago