Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Audio Podcast
1) Great 2 meet u IRL :-) Twitter and digital identity - Audio
Is Twitter an ephemeral technology, consisting of mundane chat about people's personal lives? Or can a study of its use help us to understand how we express our identities on and offline? Can Twitter ...Show More
2) Would you give your right arm to protect your heart? - Audio
During a heart attack the cells that make up the muscle of the heart are subjected to a restricted blood supply, this is usually caused by a blood clot or a narrowing of the coronary arteries. If the ...Show More
3) Sex, Drugs, the Internet and Juries - Audio
Is it true that juries rarely convict defendants in rape cases and are more likely to convict ethnic minority defendants than White defendants? And why can’t jurors resist going home at night and goog...Show More
4) Genetic testing in the 21st century: Should we screen the human embryonic genome before implantation? - Audio
In preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), embryos are created by IVF and cells removed from these embryos for genetic analysis. Until recently, testing was solely for the disease the couple carried....Show More
5) Should the brain be left to neuroscientists? - Audio
Since the 'decade of the brain' in the 1990s an increasing range of previously taboo subjects have been examined by neuroscientists. These include autobiographical memory, aesthetics, love and of cour...Show More
6) The origins of the ‘ndrangheta of Calabria: Italy’s most powerful mafia - Audio
On 15 August 2007, six young men with origins in the Italian region of Calabria were ambushed and murdered in the German steel town of Duisburg. This was northern Europe’s St Valentine’s Day massacre,...Show More
The origins of the ‘ndrangheta of Calabria: Italy’s most powerful mafia - Audio
37:58 | Mar 4th, 2011
7) Sex education via the media: Promises and pitfalls - Audio
This lecture will draw on Dr Boynton's experiences of delivering sex advice through the media - as an agony aunt in magazines and online ,and for education radio and TV such as Channel 4's The Sex Edu...Show More
8) Will robots take over the world? - Audio
2011 is the 90th anniversary of the robot, first imagined as a character in a play, performed in Prague in 1921. It is also the 50th anniversary of the first use of robots in industry with the robot ‘...Show More
9) From prehistory to the London blitz: foreshore archaeology and a rising river - Audio
When the tide is out, the Thames foreshore is the longest archaeological site in London. The remains cover a wide range of our long history and include prehistoric forests, a Bronze Age bridge, Saxon ...Show More
10) Landing on a planet at 600 miles per hour - Audio
Unmanned robotic missions are essential for understanding the planets within our solar system. Current missions comprise of gentle landings combined with rovers to explore the local region. Due to the...Show More
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