Archives : Enlightening
Dame Jenni Murray: A History of Britain in 21 Women
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- Dame Jenni Murray
Dame Jenni’s talk is a polite yet passionate fingers up to history’s attempts to silence women, on the very week Millicent Fawcett’s statue was unveiled on parliament square. Jenni began…
Paul Basset Davies: The Writer’s Journey (and how to avoid it)
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- Paul Bassett Davies
In this hilarious encounter, Paul discusses the writer’s journey, with practical as well as not-so-practical advise for anyone who has, or, might be planning to, make writing a part of…
Sir Nigel Shadbolt: Ai Myth and Reality
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- Sir Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel is one of the world’s leading scholars in the field of artificial intelligence. Beyond exploring A.I. from a technological standpoint, his work also considers some of the broader, philosophical…
Beyond Perception
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- Helen Czerski
Helen demonstrates how human beings are missing out on at least half of the bounty of the cosmos we live in. She takes us on a flight of fantasy of…
Martha Lane-Fox: The Good, The Bad & The Internet
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- Martha Lane Fox
25 years of the internet, so how’s it going? Martha takes us on a roller coaster tour of the internet, from the ‘glory’ days of dial up, the boom of…
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…
Joseph Cox: The Deep Web Isn’t All Dark
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- Joseph Cox
Joseph offers a brief survey of the Deep Web’s varied offering: crowd-sourced hit men, jihadists and esoteric drugs. Yet he invites us to look beyond the pixels, and sensationalist newspaper…
Barbara Nitke: American Ecstasy
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- Barbara Nitke
“I feel like my work is a salute to the sex workers of the world. And how much I care about them.” Barbara’s talk looks beyond the ethics of porn…
In pursuit of deliciousness
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- Ben Reade
In this fascinating talk, Ben guides us through an exploration of the edible. He confesses to a penchant for pasta and pesto, but also outlines some rather more experimental approaches…
Free will as an evolved brain function.
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- Prof. Björn Brembs
In this rigorous, 15 minute talk, Björn combines philosophy and science to explore the topic of determinism. Sharing his discoveries involving the spontaneous behaviour of fruitflies and leeches, he levels…