Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2011 - Video Podcast
1) The price of the pouch: the evolutionary ramifications of mammalian reproductive strategies - Video
Mammals are characterized by lengthy maternal care, and this has been linked to manifold attributes of this successful and charismatic group that includes our own species. However, living mammals disp...Show More
2) Designing for Students - Video
Sir Peter Cook and his CRAB STUDIO have two new University buildings under construction in Austria and Australia. He designs from the experience of more than 40 years' teaching and weaves 'stories' in...Show More
3) From pathogen to ally: engineering viruses to treat disease - Video
Recombinant DNA technology has been in widespread use since the 1980s. It has allowed the engineering of viral genomes to produce a number of safe and useful medicines. To mark World AIDS Day, this le...Show More
4) The highs and lows of our nearest star, the Sun - Video
There is more to the Sun than meets the eye. Observations from spacecraft have, over the last 50 years, revealed a dynamic and active behaviour to our Sun that cannot be seen from the Earth. Recent re...Show More
5) Did democracy cause the American Civil War? - Video
A hundred and fifty years ago the first shots of the American Civil War were fired. It was a war that was to result in the deaths of perhaps three quarters of a million people. Yet the United States i...Show More
6) Child development in developing countries - Video
In this lecture Professor Attanasio will talk about the recent interest in child development in developing countries, through intervention in early years, and will describe a pilot intervention progra...Show More
7) Prometheus and I: building new body parts from stem cells - Video
Prometheus created life from clay, and within many surgeons there is a desire to do the same in an effort to stave off death and disease. Organ transplantation has been one Promethean solution, but a ...Show More
8) Against nature? Homosexuality and evolution - Video
Same-sex sexual behaviour is often condemned on the grounds that it is "against nature". Indeed, biology tells us that selection favours those who leave more offspring. But then, homosexual behaviour ...Show More
9) London, the divorce capital of the world. ‘Big money’ divorce cases: fairness, gender and judicial discretion - Video
The law gives the courts very broad discretion to determine ‘fair’ property and financial awards when couples divorce. While that discretion is exercised in all cases, it has been shaped by principles...Show More
10) When technology design provokes errors - Video
Did you ever forget your chip & pin card in a card reader? Leave the original on a photocopier? Send an email to the wrong person from your address book? The way technology is designed can make errors...Show More
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