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Daisy’s talk offers a creative vision of a genetically designed future: where the seemingly limitless possibilities of these brilliant, yet unfamiliar technologies are locked in battle with as yet unknown…

Life On Mars

Speaker
Dr. Louisa Preston

Louisa’s talk is a fascinating tour of the red planet complete with an exploration of the future potential it could hold.

Zero Degrees of Empathy

Speaker
Simon Baron-Cohen

In this harrowing talk, Simon looks at notorious incidents of 20th Century evil. He argues for a more scientific understanding of the problem, seeing so-called evil in terms of a…

On the Map.

Speaker
Simon Garfield

Simon explores the weird and wonderful world of cartography, taking us on a whistlestop tour of maps, starting at 276 BC, and ending in the present day. We are shown…

Democracy 2.0

Speaker
Anke Domscheit-Berg

Anke envisions a future in which government and civil society can collaborate, share data and work together towards common goals. In her talk, she takes us through some fantastic digital…

Revolution 3D.

Speaker
Josef Průša

Josef’s talk takes us through the revolution that is Rep Rap. A totally open source rapid prototyping project with thousands of members and tens of thousands of machines worldwide, able…

Anonymity, a fox’s tale.

Speaker
Susie Boniface

Susie’s talk is an insider commentary on the press and her love-hate relationship with the industry: an industry that on the one hand, lets you meet fascinating people and travel…

Reality check – parasites and mind control.

Speaker
Ed Yong

Ed discusses some of science’s most sinister phenomena: mind manipulation by some of nature’s most brain-bending parasites. With zombie caterpillars to suicidal crickets Ed explains how these victims are no…

Nature or nurture.

Speaker
Prof. Steve Jones

Prof. Jones uses fat cats, Mickey Mouse, murder rates and bendy buses to answer one of the biggest questions in science: nature or nurture? revealing what we don’t know about…

The Lost Lectures