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Video Colin Blakemore Christmas Lecture 6

Common Sense - Enchanted loom (1982)

Colin Blakemore's final lecture builds on his previous five lectures to explore how all the senses work together.

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Video Colin Blakemore Christmas Lecture 5

Common Sense - Vive la différence (1982)

Colin Blakemore discusses contrasts and differences we find in the natural world.

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Video Colin Blakemore Christmas Lecture 4

Common Sense - Show me the way to go home (1982)

Colin Blakemore continues his 1982 CHRISTMAS LECTURES with an exploration of biological navigation systems.

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Video Colin Blakemore Christmas Lecture 3

Common Sense - The sixth sense - and the rest (1982)

Colin Blakemore moves onto explaining the internal sensory systems in our bodies in his third CHRISTMAS LECTURE of his 1982

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Video Colin Blakemore Christmas Lecture 2

Common Sense - The sound of silence (1982)

In the second lecture of the series, Colin Blakemore explores the science behind the senses, with some animal guests to

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Video Colin Blakemore Christmas Lecture 1

Common Sense - Making sense (1982)

In the first of his 1982 CHRISTMAS LECTURES series 'Common sense', Colin Blakemore discusses how the brain works and how this

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Video Geoffrey G Gouriet Christmas Lecture 3

Ripples in the Ether - The sound of broadcasting (1972)

Geoffrey G. Gouriet explores how sound is produced and broadcasted in the third of his 1972 Christmas Lecture series 'Ripples in

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Video Geoffrey G Gouriet Christmas Lecture 4

Ripples in the Ether - Pictures with and without wires (1972)

In his fourth 1972 Christmas Lecture in the series 'Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication', Geoffrey G

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Video Geoffrey G Gouriet Christmas Lecture 5

Ripples in the Ether - But electrons aren't coloured! (1972)

Geoffrey G. Gouriet discusses how colour picture is produced and transmitted in his fifth Christmas Lecture of his 1972 series

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Video Geoffrey G Gouriet Christmas Lecture 1
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Ripples in the Ether - How it all began (1972)

Geoffrey G. Gouriet discusses how radio communication began in the first of his 1972 Christmas Lecture series titled 'Ripples in

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