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How Natural is Natural? Historical Perspective on Wildlife and the Environment in England
THE 2018 ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLIN MATTHEW MEMORIAL LECTURE
We often think of the British countryside as 'natural' but it is anything b…
7 years, 4 months ago
Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Poetic Revolution
'The sense of a new style and a new spirit in poetry came over me', wrote William Hazlitt, recalling the day in 1798 when he heard William …
7 years, 4 months ago
Epidemics, Pandemics and How To Control Them
Some infections come in repeated epidemic waves, others are new to human populations. A known human threat such as influenza may mutate or a new infe…
7 years, 4 months ago
Brexit: Recovery of Sovereignty or Loss of Rights?
Was Brexit (the 2016 referendum) argued on the basis of accurate information fairly presented? Slogans were, and may always be, better at gathering v…
7 years, 4 months ago
Can Maths Predict The Future? The Maths Behind Chaos Theory and Sudden Change
Since Newton, we are used to science making confident predictions about the future. For example, the motion of the planets and the times of the tides…
7 years, 4 months ago
No Listening, No Music: Why Listening Matters
What does it mean to listen to music? How might the concepts and practices of 'listening' and 'music-making' have first emerged i…
7 years, 4 months ago
Ethics In and Out of the Court Room
If you are a barrister you will be asked 'how can you act for someone who is guilty?'. This is just one of the ethical questions the Bar ha…
7 years, 4 months ago
Purposeful Business: The Evidence and the Implementation
Do businesses exist to make profits, or to serve a purpose?
This talk will present rigorous evidence showing there need be no trade-off between purpo…
7 years, 4 months ago
Ultra-Compact Objects: Astronomy with Gravitational Waves
The most compact objects that shine in the universe are neutron stars. Black holes are even more compact objects that we view indirectly as matter ac…
7 years, 4 months ago
How To Be An Atheist In Medieval Europe
There was no intellectually sophisticated or articulate 'atheism' in the Middle Ages, but there was plenty of raw scepticism and incredulit…
7 years, 5 months ago