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Video The Hidden Geometry of Everything - with Jordan Ellenberg

Maths

The Hidden Geometry of Everything - with Jordan Ellenberg

The answers to everything, from how computers learn to play chess to how a democracy should choose its representatives, can be

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Video Rutherford, Radioactivity and the Future of Physics - with the Cosmic Shambles Network

Physics

Rutherford, Radioactivity and the Future of Physics - with the Cosmic Shambles Network

Often dubbed the 'Father of the Nuclear Age’, Ernest Rutherford’s pioneering, and Nobel Award winning, discoveries in nuclear

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Video a burger that has all of its layers perfectly separated

Biology and the human body

How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong - with Giles Yeo

All of the calorie counts you see on food today are wrong. Obesity researcher Giles Yeo shows why calories are not created equal

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Video What Can Intelligent Materials Do? - with Skylar Tibbits

Technology and engineering

What Can Intelligent Materials Do? - with Skylar Tibbits

How can we design simple and elegant intelligent materials, that may one day animate and improve themselves?

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Video How Easy is It to Grow a Supermassive Black Hole? - with Dr Becky

Physics

How Easy is It to Grow a Supermassive Black Hole? - with Dr Becky

What is it that makes supermassive black holes grow so big?

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Video What Do Our Brains Do When We're Dreaming?- with Mark Solms

Brain

What Do Our Brains Do When We're Dreaming?- with Mark Solms

Sigmund Freud was the first scientist to support the popular notion that dreams are meaningful. Fifty years later, the discovery

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Video Why Trust Science? - with Naomi Oreskes

History of science

Why Trust Science? - with Naomi Oreskes

Science is continually changing with new findings and discoveries. When people reject these findings, we end up in a position

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Video Is This a New Kind of Physics? - with Harry Cliff, Paula Alvarez Cartelle and Ben Allanach

Physics

Is This a New Kind of Physics? - with Harry Cliff, Paula Alvarez Cartelle and Ben Allanach

Our current theory of particle physics, the Standard Model, predicts equal numbers of electrons and muons, but the results

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Video How Do Neural Networks Grow Smarter? - with Robin Hiesinger

Brain

How Do Neural Networks Grow Smarter? - with Robin Hiesinger

Neurobiologists and computer scientists are trying to discover how neural networks become a brain. Will nature give us the

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Video Is It Our Moral Duty to Explore Other Planets? - with Christopher Mason

Technology and engineering

Is It Our Moral Duty to Explore Other Planets? - with Christopher Mason

Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few

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