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Boundaries
Boundaries: real and imagined
Fragmentation: How Tiny Pieces Explain the Whole Picture
What can fragmented knowledge and physical matter tell us?
India's Urban Challenge
Will India cope once the majority of its people live in cities?
Core: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
What lies at the heart of the universe and the core of the earth itself?
Expansion and Growth
Exploring ideas about expansion and growth
Reconciliation: Healing the Nation
What is the best way to redress historical injustices?
Being Cold
How weather affects a nation鈥檚 character
A Leap of Faith: Finding Common Ground Between Science and Religion
Can there be a common ground between science and religion?
Symbols, Signs and Secrets. What symbols tell us about ourselves.
Why symbols are so important, their history and their future.
The Past, Present and Future of Shipping
New ways to travel across the ocean and to find out what lies in its depths
The Hidden Power of Noise
Why we should all pay more attention to background noise.
Grass Roots
Grass Roots: How 鈥榩eople鈥檚鈥� movements are changing.
A Very Long View
Tracking changes in our lives and bodies over decades, generations and even millennia
Consumption and Our Identity
How what we consume shapes and defines our identity
Reawakening Language
Reawakening language and culture
The Pleasures and Perils of Storytelling
Why do we see a narrative in everything?
Machine Translation: The End of the Human Translator?
Will new technology mean the end of the human translator?
Anger
Why do we get cross?
Oxygen: Its History and its Future
The history and the future of oxygen
The Benefits of Simplicity
How to make the world simpler
The Element of Surprise
How open are you to the unexpected?
Advances in Bioengineering
Bridging the divide between living and inorganic matter
The Human Face: How We See Each Other
How humans and machines interpret facial expressions
Taming Nature
What lies behind our desire to improve and perfect nature
Living at the Edge: Life in Extreme Environments
Extreme life on earth and in space.
A Single World, Many Identities?
Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, Nick Bostrom and Ann Phoenix from UCL discuss identity
Balance: How we Find Equilibrium
Why balance in humans, machines and music are needed for effectiveness and safety
Rules and how they govern us
Rules and how they govern us.
Wheel Revolutions
The technology and art of wheeled transport
Brain Drain: Can We Stem the Flow?
How can we stem the brain drain from countries who need their talented people?
After Dark: How we Respond to Darkness
Exploring how we operate at night and our attitude to the dark
