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This year’s Reith lecturer is the neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition at the University of California (San Diego). The five lectures study neurological...
Dan Brown’s best-selling novel Angels and Demons delves into some of the big questions of cosmology and gets into issues about the history of the debate between science and religion. Where did the world...
This 30-minute programme Peter Evans investigates how science deals with new ideas and asks whether a conservative establishment is stifling creative research and science is merely a consensus of what the...
A series of 15-minute programmes exploring how our ideas about the end of the universe have been shaped by religion, belief, and the contemporary state of scientific thinking and observation. Presented by...
In the Western world, science and religion occupy different spheres. Religion might sometimes be called on to provide an ethical dimension to a scientific issue, but by and large, it is believed that science...
Peter Day explores the implications of some of the principles that underlie new technology, which are beginning to have a profound effect on our daily lives. Big ideas - such as the Theory of Relativity -...
A recording of a public lecture by George Ellis of the University of Cape Town and winner of the 2004 Templeton Prize, delivered at the Royal Society on 9 December 2004. The complexity of life and the human...
In an interview with Woodrow Wyatt, Lord Russell envisions an organised and static world. He also points out humanity’s capability, through education and self-knowledge, to abolish war, poverty and...
Video recordings of a series of 34 lectures given at UCLA by Dr Bob Goldberg, a plant molecular biologist who specialises in the area of plant gene expression. The lectures examine the historical and...
Video recordings of a series of 37 lectures given by J Michael McBride at Yale University. They comprise the first semester of a two-semester introductory course focusing on current theories of structure and...
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