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The Treaty of Versailles: A Hundred Years Later
A century has passed since the Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919. After WWI the treaty imposed peace terms which have remained the subj…
6 years, 8 months ago
Aristotle's Lyceum
In the 330s BCE, the great philosopher and scientist, Aristotle of Stagira in northern Greece, returned to Athens and founded his Lyceum. The first i…
6 years, 9 months ago
Toothpaste, Custard and Chocolate: Mathematics Gets Messy
THE 2019 JOINT LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL LECTURE
This talk looks at mathematical modelling of real, complex fluids in flow situations - some …
6 years, 9 months ago
Creativity: Can Computers Cut It?
Computers are often parodied as machines that kill creativity. Yet modern works of creativity usually have a digital aspect, and many are wholly digi…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Changing Impact of Infections as We Go Through Life and Age
The very young and very elderly are particularly susceptible to many infections and for many infections, age will predict how likely someone is to di…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Limits of Our Knowledge
There is much in the universe we will never know, and it is equally certain that we will never know all that we do not know. This dilemma has not sto…
6 years, 9 months ago
Exploring Earth from Space
In recent years, multiple space missions have been launched. Many have set out across our galaxy to explore other systems and planets, capturing peop…
6 years, 9 months ago
Prokofiev's War and Peace
Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace (1953) was an adaptation of Tolstoy's novel begun during WWII. He saw it as a personal interpretation of t…
6 years, 9 months ago
Energy and Matter at the Origin of Life
The origin of life is one of the biggest questions in science, but until recently it was, experimentally, a question in chemistry. Now, gene sequence…
6 years, 9 months ago
Staying in Touch with Patients
Touch is central to the performance of medicine. Traditionally, doctors depended on touch to diagnose illness. Revolutions in imaging technology, mac…
6 years, 9 months ago