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01:23:00

We are what we remember.

by Eric Kandel
We are what we remember.
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1263 views
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n this lecture, Eric R Kandel considers the neural systems and molecular mechanisms that contribute to learning and long-term memory and discusses how our insights into memory storage are allowing us to understand various forms of age related memory ....

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01:02:00

Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician’s journey.

by Marcus du Sautoy
Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician’s journey.
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1722 views
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Symmetry is all around us. Our eyes and minds are drawn to symmetrical objects, from the sphere to the swastika, from the pyramid to the pentagon. Of fundamental significance to the way we interpret the world around us, this unique phenomenon indicat....

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01:05:00

Climate change on the living Earth

by James Lovelock
Climate change on the living Earth
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1714 views
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Observations from around the Earth suggest that even the gloomiest predictions of climate change from the 2007 IPCC report may underestimate the seriousness of the changes due this century. In this lecture, Professor James Lovelock discusses the cons....

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01:30:00

Behaving badly

by Uta Frith
Behaving badly
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1526 views
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Are environment, or genetics, more to blame when a human being turns to a life of crime? What does it mean to be criminally insane? And how effectively can a criminal tendency be treated with drugs? What different lights can literature and science sh....

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01:09:00

Mind-reading technologies – with People Sense

by Rana el Kaliouby
Mind-reading technologies – with People Sense
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1327 views
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People Sense refers to the remarkable capacity of humans to sense and have a commonsense understanding of others' affective-cognitive states and behaviors. The ability to understand and predict people's behavior varies from person to person and even ....

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01:02:00

Reprogramming the code of life

by Jason Chin
Reprogramming the code of life
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1521 views
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The information for synthesizing the molecules that allow organisms to survive and replicate is encoded in genomic DNA. In the cell, DNA is copied to messenger RNA, and triplet codons in the messenger RNA are decoded in the process of translation to ....

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01:03:00

Surviving pandemics: a pathogen’s perspective

by Sunetra Gupta
Surviving pandemics: a pathogen’s perspective
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1469 views
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One of the biggest challenges faced by pathogens in their bid for survival is the host immune response. Within an infected individual, pathogen populations face direct attack by the different processes of the immune system; at a community level, immu....

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01:05:00

The Lilliput laboratory: chemistry & biology on the small scale

by Andrew de Mello
The Lilliput laboratory: chemistry & biology on the small scale
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 14764 views
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In 1959, Richard Feynman proposed a variety of new nano-tools including the concept of atom by atom' fabrication. In the intervening decades, many of these predictions have become reality. Andrew de Mello assesses the current impact of lab-on-a-chip ....

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01:00:00

The new biology of ageing

by Linda Partridge
The new biology of ageing
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1328 views
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Research into ageing has been rejuvenated by the discovery of mutations in single genes that extend the lifespan of laboratory animals. Some of the signalling pathways involved, particularly the insulin/Igf-like pathway, have effects on lifespan acro....

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01:00:00

The social function of history: policy, history and twentieth-century science

by David Edgerton
The social function of history: policy, history and twentieth-century science
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1717 views
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Historians bring to thinking about science policy a very particular understanding which should be central to policy: historians are trained to know in their bones that the future is unknown and to understand the power of the cheap futurism which char....

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01:06:00

Mathematics in the real world: From brain tumours to saving marriages

by James Murray
Mathematics in the real world: From brain tumours to saving marriages
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1579 views
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Practical mathematical models are becoming an accepted part of most medical and scientific disciplines. A few of the more unlikely applications are justifying intertribal warfare, the benefits of cannibalism, how the leopard gets its spots and demons....

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01:16:00

Every picture tells a story

by John Barrow
Every picture tells a story
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1373 views
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We will look at the role of pictures and images in the development of science. From the first graphs and illustrated books to Molscript, the influence of the first pictures of spiral galaxies on Van Gogh's 'Starry Night', to the artistic resonances o....

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