麻豆约拍

Trade

How well does the idea of free trade really work? Does it improve our economic welfare?

• 40 mins

How Long is 鈥楴ow鈥�?

New insights into how we perceive time

• 40 mins

Cloud Education: The Future of Learning

Is the future of education a massive online classroom?

• 40 mins

Plasticity

Shape-shifting in everyday objects, our brains and plastic waste.

• 40 mins

Myth

The importance of Myth and Storytelling

• 40 mins

Resurrection

Should we bring the woolly mammoth back to life and should ancient languages be revived?

• 40 mins

How is Character Created and Shaped?

What does it mean to be good and how do you become a better person?

• 40 mins

Re-aligning the Wheel

How manufacturing might look in the future from the BIG M conference in Detroit

• 40 mins

Shells

What shells can tell us about our past, present and future

• 40 mins

Clay

The joys and perils of porcelain, kaolin and volcanic soils

• 40 mins

Adventures in 2D: Graphene and Beyond

What is the future of graphene and other 鈥�2D鈥� materials?

• 40 mins

Power and Influence

How countries and NGOs exert power

• 40 mins

The Power of the Human Voice

Developments in the human voice

• 40 mins

Worlds in Miniature

Why tiny things appeal to us.

• 40 mins

Design

Design is everywhere- from tables and chairs to physics. Does it have to be beautiful?

• 40 mins

Grief

Grief and loss and ritual in different creatures and different cultures.

• 40 mins

The Salt Story

Salt: its history and future.

• 40 mins

Magic

The art - and science - of magic and its place in the world today.

• 40 mins

Steel

How steel gives us music, art and the modern world

• 40 mins

Curves

Curves in art, space and life

• 40 mins

Upside Down

Subversion and inversion in a topsy-turvy world

• 40 mins

Are we Losing the Ability to Focus?

In the age of perpetual distraction, are we losing the ability to focus?

• 40 mins

The Wind: Its Impact on Earth and in Space

How the wind shapes our environment from the sea to art and outer space

• 40 mins

Why Do we Need the State?

Is it time to rethink what a modern state is for?

• 40 mins

The Bicycle: Freedom Machine

How important is the bicycle and what does it do for us?

• 40 mins

Boundaries

Boundaries: real and imagined

• 40 mins

Fragmentation: How Tiny Pieces Explain the Whole Picture

What can fragmented knowledge and physical matter tell us?

• 40 mins

India's Urban Challenge

Will India cope once the majority of its people live in cities?

• 40 mins

Core: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

What lies at the heart of the universe and the core of the earth itself?

• 40 mins

Expansion and Growth

Exploring ideas about expansion and growth

• 40 mins