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Hippocrates and Ancient Greek Medicine
The birth of rational medicine contributed to the scientific revolution which occurred amongst eastern Greek communities in the 7th-to-5th centuries …
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The Cashless Society
Money may well make world go round but cash is surely an encumbrance we can do without. What does a cashless society look like? What is the technolog…
5 years, 11 months ago
Perceptions, Expectations, and Discoveries
The Greeks famously identified many patterns and rhythms in the sky, deducing detailed information about eclipses and orbits that still have relevanc…
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The Last Mile: Ensuring Access to Affordable Energy to Poor, Rural Communities
How can we deliver clean and affordable energy to even the poor, especially in rural settlements, as set out in UN Sustainable Development Goal 7?
En…
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A History of the Foot
The science of feet and footprints has a long, yet often forgotten, history.
In this lecture, I look at what people from the late eighteenth century …
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What Medicine Can Learn from Restaurants about Care
Medical care often frames patients as the passive ‘recipients’ of expert professional knowledge and skill.
This lecture explores what comes into view…
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Diaghilev and Prokofiev: Return to Emotion
Diaghilev would often look at past art and then do the opposite. He playfully abandoned plot, elaborate costumes, emotional expression, and even mean…
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Artificial Intelligence and Religion
This lecture addresses the potential links between AI and religious belief, which include the question of whether an artificial "superintelligen…
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War Games at the Field of the Cloth of Gold
2020 marks the 500th anniversary of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, one of the most extraordinary diplomatic events of the late medieval period. Alth…
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Forgotten Victims from the Age of Atrocity
Some of the atrocities of the age of Europe's religious wars immediately became notorious. The execution of tens of thousands of women and men f…
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