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Mind - the Gap: What's Missing from Medical Training?
Over the past 150 years medical science has developed beyond all recognition yet there is a huge gap between these scientific developments on the one…
7 years, 2 months ago
Sexual Harassment at the Bar
2018 saw a seismic change in the willingness of women to speak out about sexual abuse they had suffered at work and the willingness of others to hear…
7 years, 3 months ago
The Theatre of Dionysus
Medea, Antigone, Oedipus and Lysistrata - these are just some of the characters from ancient Greek drama who still walk our contemporary stages and h…
7 years, 3 months ago
In the Beginning
Where did we come from? This question has always intrigued human thought.
Professor Silk will describe the modern scientist's view of the origin…
7 years, 3 months ago
Speech Processing: How to Wreck a Nice Peach
Alexa, Siri and Cortana are among a number of voice-enabled digital assistants that can not only speak to us but understand us. Sci-fi films had talk…
7 years, 3 months ago
Plastics from Potatoes, Rubber from Rice
With over 80% of organic carbon being present in the form of cellulose, lignin and starch, it is unsurprising many groups have attempted to use these…
7 years, 3 months ago
Infections and the Brain
The brain is well protected against most infections, but once they get into or around the brain they can cause fatal or serious long-term consequence…
7 years, 3 months ago
The Romantic Child
The Romantics invented the modern idea of childhood.
In the third of his lectures on the rhetoric of Romanticism, Jonathan Bate will explore how they…
7 years, 3 months ago
Glinka's A Life for the Tsar
The rousing finale of Mikhail Glinka's patriotic A Life for the Tsar (1836) guaranteed it a place as the traditional season opener in Russian op…
7 years, 3 months ago
Classical Music, Noisy Listening
Shh! You're in a classical concert - quiet! What has become, in the 20th and 21st centuries, a musical tradition of as-quiet-as-possible, cough-…
7 years, 3 months ago