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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’s 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 ‘people’s’ 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
Lost and Found
Can loss be a force for renewal, forcing us to adjust and experience things differently?
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
When Does Healthy Competition Become Destructive?
What is the place of rivalry in human behaviour?
Resilience: A Survivor's Guide to Adversity
Why some people and animals adapt to hardship
Talking Rubbish: Clever Ways with Waste
Advice from a garbologist, a waste expert and a taxidermist about re-using waste