St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2017: Teddy Talks Podcast
1) UK National Debt: A Historical Perspective
The UK national debt is currently the highest it's ever been, and a lot larger than many other countries. This talk takes a look behind the figures, and asks why it is important, whether we should be ...Show More
2) Ending Poverty?
Linda Yueh (Fellow by Special Election in Economics) talks about ending poverty. The UN has a Sustainable Development Goal to eradicate extreme poverty, currently measured as people living on less tha...Show More
3) Was There History in the Middle Ages?
Did medieval writers think they were writing history? This talk takes a closer look at the various forms of ‘history’ during this period. Emily A. Winkler is (John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellow in Hi...Show More
4) What Does Philosophy Have to Do with Neuroscience?
When you examine the brain, you can learn a lot and see chemical interactions, but you cannot find anything about the first-person nature of things we experience as humans, such as colours and pain. ...Show More
5) Advanced LIGO: the New Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Why has the recent detection of gravitational waves been one of the most important discoveries in modern times for astrophysics? And what are the implications of the new Advanced LIGO gravitational-wa...Show More
6) Lithium-ion Batteries and Beyond
Batteries are one of the most efficient ways to store energy, and there has been a massive increase recently in the use of lithium-ion batteries, particularly in electric cars. Do we have enough lithi...Show More
7) ‘Boom, ratatata, hui-hui-sss-ttt, woouum’ - Children’s Views of World War II
How do people remember the past? Alex Lloyd (Lecturer, German Language and Literature) looks at essays written by children in Germany after the Second World War–examining the words and tone; the polit...Show More
‘Boom, ratatata, hui-hui-sss-ttt, woouum’ - Children’s Views of World War II
11:36 | Apr 3rd, 2017
8) Banned Books: Hus and Luther in the Teddy Hall Library
This talk focusses on a first edition of the collected works of Jan Hus, from the collection in St Edmund Hall’s Old Library, written in the fifteenth century but first printed in 1558 together with l...Show More
9) Merchants’ Marks in Medieval English Books
Merchants’ marks were used initially as a tool of commerce, on consignments of goods, in the Middle Ages. In the sixteenth century, however, they became more like a coat of arms for people who didn’t ...Show More
10) Extreme Clocks: Physics with Pulsars
An introduction to pulsars: objects that have more mass than the sun but are only around 20km in diameter, possessing an extremely high rotational stability and a very strong magnetic field. Aris Kara...Show More