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Does science explain the world, or does it simply describe it? Can science ever be truly objective? What is the boundary between science and non-science? Does nature have laws? This programme seeks to answer...
Intended to demonstrate commonly used methods for the experimental testing for local anaesthesia in a lecture. The three techniques demonstrated are the frog plexus, the rabbit cornea and the guinea pig...
Investigates the theory developed by Professor Geschwind of Harvard University, one of the world’s leading experts on the brain, that left-handed people are a ‘race apart’. He believes that...
Video recording of a lecture by Professor Robert Darnton, University Librarian at Harvard University, on the development of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and how the US experience can inform...
The Bororo Fulani of the Niger Republic in Africa. The film was made during the few weeks that they gather in large numbers to celebrate their pride in themselves as an independent people. They hold a series...
Examines the theory that a child’s ability to talk is partially innate, that babies are born with the capacity to extract not just words, but rules of grammar from what they hear spoken around them. The...
Seamus Heaney was awarded the Noble Prize in Literature in 1995. He has resided in Dublin since 1976 and visits Harvard University to teach and read every two years. His recent books are a selected poems...
Demonstrates the method of dissection of the rat gut and the preparation of isolated sacs from segments of the intestine. The technique suggested is that of segmentation of the jejunum and ileum into five...
If the development of armaments by the superpowers is to be managed, then it is necessary to understand the forces which drive it. Professor Graham Allison, of Harvard University, discusses two rival...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews Dr. Jeffrey R. Wilson (Harvard University) about his book ‘Shakespeare and Game of Thrones.' They discuss the ways that Shakespeare’s first historical tetralogy (Henry...
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