The Virtues of the Table
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- Julian Baggini
Julian questions the very fundamentals of eating. Why does food gives us pleasure? Does ethical food taste better? Can dining be more than a hedonistic pursuit? Looking across cultures and…
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An End to Ageing
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- Aubrey De Grey
Aubrey offers an accessible guide to his research, outlining a future in which age related illnesses are removed from the picture and bodies are repaired and restored with the consistency…
Documenting the Imagination
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- Christine Cynn
Christine outlines her mission to ‘document the imagination’. In her view, filmmakers (factual or otherwise) are here to explore and capture the fictions we live by just as much as…
A Musical Odyssey
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- Alabama 3
Merging poetry, politics, music and performance, A3 take us on a dark journey through contemporary England. At times angry, at times, starkly beautiful their performance is a true tour de…
Transforming the Media
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- Paris Lees
Paris is joined on stage by friend Dr Kate Stone, a Cambridge professor who recently waged war against transphobic prejudices in the media. The two candidly discuss their experience of…
The Art of Mashup
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- Cassetteboy
Cassetteboy guide us through their topic of expertise: how to fail at making a living. They discuss their humble beginnings, when mashups were still a nebulous art and they were…
The Drugs Don’t Work
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- Prof. Dame Sally Davies
Dame Sally’s talk (and recent book ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’) outlines a frightening vision of the world once antibiotics stop being effective . Resistance to our current range of antibiotics…
A Brief History of Boom!
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- Andrew Szydlo
Speaking a mile a minute, armed with a host of musical instruments and a bag of potions, Andrew delivers a chemistry lesson unlike any you’ve seen before. Expect a lot…
Chessboxing
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- Tim Woolgar – Chess Boxing
For those not in the know (though it’s kind of in the name), the basic premise is as follows: one round of chess and one round of boxing until checkmate…
Inventing the Future
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- Steve Vranakis
Steve offers an inside scoop, telling us what its like working within one of the most exciting companies on earth. He explores his team’s creative process, their emphasis on making,…
The Blonsky Device
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- Marc Abrahams
Marc tells the tale of the Blonsky Device and the couple who created it. Inspired by a trip to the zoo, they patented a device with offering a very unique…
Flex Is Kings
Flex are a troop of urban, street dancers performing in Brooklyn. Faced with dwindling prospects, and harsh economic conditions, they turned to dance as a constructive channel for their energy.…