Award-winning food writer Michael Pollan shows how we can become more mindful of what we eat, and how we can make food choices that are better for…
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MIT Professor Dan Nocera believes he can solve the worlds energy problems with an Olympic-sized pool of water. Nocera and his research team have identified a simple…
Celebrated author Bill Bryson presents a lecture on the history of science in the Great Hall at the Guildhall in honor of the 350th anniversary of the…
In this 10 part series from The Open University, Professor Russell Stannard OBE delves into subjects ranging from free will and determinism, to space and the nature…
Can you mentally multiply enormous numbers faster than a calculator? Memorize a 100 digit number? Figure the day of the week of anyone’s birthday? These are just…
Brian Schmidt of the Australian National University delivers his lecture entitled The Universe from Beginning to End. The lecture explores the geometry and age of the universe…
Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking. The author explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history…
Matthew Taylor explores the meaning of 21st century enlightenment, and how the idea might help us meet the challenges we face today. At the heart of this…
Does the fallibility of sensory evidence – for example, the fact we can make mistakes about what we’re seeing, hearing, tasting, touching and smelling – mean they’re…
Professor David Crystal, one of the world’s leading linguistic experts, challenges the myth that new communication technologies are destroying language. What actually really does happen when people…
Some people argue that Santa is harmful because: Christmas encourages materialism; It is psychologically damaging to children; Belief in Santa discourages skepticism; It forces parents to lie…
