Science in Society Podcast
1) Beyond Weird: One Hundred Years of Quantum Mechanics
In this talk, Philip Ball explains how new ideas might help reconcile quantum mechanics with general relativity. Join Marcus du Sautoy and Philip Ball for the 2025 Charles Simonyi Lecture, Beyond Weir...Show More
2) Consciousness in Humans and in Other Things
How do conscious experiences arise from brains and bodies? What is the ‘self’? Anil Seth sheds light on these questions through the idea of the brain as an embodied ‘prediction machine’. The Charles S...Show More
3) Why be a Lunatic
Dr Maggie Adarin-Pocock delivers the 2019 Simonyi Lecture at the Oxford Playhouse
4) The future of the planet: life, growth and death in organisms, cities and companies. Geoffrey West
In this year’s Simonyi Lecture Geoffrey West discusses universal laws that govern everything from growth to mortality in plants, animals, cities and companies. These remarkable laws originate in the n...Show More
5) Mathematics: Navigating Nature's Dark Labyrinth
The Inaugural Lecture of the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, 2009.
6) Can robots be made creative enough to invent their own language?
Luc Steels delivers the 2012 Simonyi lecture and asks can machines be creative enough to invent their own language? Professor Steels talks about some of his recent breakthrough experiments which have ...Show More