Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video Podcast
1) Cigarettes: the most successful product ever - Video
Despite five decades of research into the harms of smoking and numerous successful public health campaigns, many people take up and continue with the habit. Cigarette sales remain high as tobacco comp...Show More
2) Stuff Matters - Video
Whatever people think about the rapid pace of change of technology, our most fundamental categorization of stuff on the planet has not altered: there are living things and there is non-living stuff. A...Show More
3) Scandinavian crime fiction and the end of the welfare state - Video
Scandinavian crime fiction has in recent years enjoyed surprising success world-wide. The region, with its universal welfare states, is most commonly considered a very peaceful place, with low rates o...Show More
4) Civil Engineers against the double negative - Video
Is a culture of infallibility holding back our engineers by celebrating the avoidance of failure rather than the achievement of success? Do we really want our engineers to live their lives by the mant...Show More
5) Genomics and Healthcare - Video
Greater understanding of how genetic differences influence disease susceptibility and drug response has potentially important healthcare applications. This lecture, marking Heart Awareness Month, will...Show More
6) By the Donzerly Light: when our ears play tricks on us - Video
Almost every song lyric can be misunderstood: famously, Jimi Hendrix’s 'Kiss the Sky' is often heard as 'Kiss This Guy'. Why does this happen? While slips of the tongue are well-known, slips of the ea...Show More
7) A diet to treat ageing - Video
It has been known for some time that moderate dietary restriction can extend healthy lifespan in a variety of organisms. By experimenting on fruitflies, we are uncovering that only very small changes ...Show More
8) Can the Eurozone crisis be solved? - Video
There was plenty of scepticism among economists about the likely success of a common currency in Europe. The immediate problem is that peripheral countries have seen their public sectors incur large d...Show More
9) The influence of Islam on science - Video
In recent years, there has been much discussion of the influence of classical Arabic science on the Western scientific tradition. Yet these achievements have been variously ignored, overlooked or occa...Show More
10) Gravity and continuum - Video
Within theoretical physics the gravitational force is the odd one out. It is much weaker than the other forces, its mathematical formulation is different and we are struggling to understand it. In thi...Show More