Brain

Essential Functions of Sleep: Learning, Memory and Changing Your Mind - with Gina Poe

Sleep is vital to our wellbeing. The stages of deep and dreamless slow wave sleep and vivid dreaming REM sleep both have

CHRISTMAS LECTURES Climate

Planet Earth: A user's guide – Up in the air (2020)

Tara Shine shows how Earth produces a never-ending supply of oxygen, and why today’s increased carbon emissions are dangerous to

CHRISTMAS LECTURES Climate

Planet Earth: A user's guide – Water world (2020)

Helen Czerski unpicks the Earth’s heating and plumbing systems, showing how shifting ocean water forms the heart of the Earth's

CHRISTMAS LECTURES Climate

Planet Earth: A user's guide – Engine Earth (2020)

Chris Jackson shows us how the planet’s oldest rocks and fossils tell a story of radical climate changes throughout history.

CHRISTMAS LECTURES Maths

Secrets and lies – How can we all win? (2019)

Hannah Fry looks at why maths can fail and asks what the limits of maths are. Are there problems maths can’t or shouldn’t solve

CHRISTMAS LECTURES Maths

Secrets and lies – How to bend the rules (2019)

Hannah Fry explores how have algorithms taken control of our lives and now guide almost everything that we do.

How Does Forensic Anthropology Help Solve Crimes? - with Sue M. Black

Please be aware that due to the nature of the topic of forensic anthropology, this recording includes discussions of violence

Climate

Sea Level Rise Can No Longer Be Stopped, What Next? - with John Englander

Sea level rise can no longer be stopped, so it is urgent that we commence intelligent adaptation as a high priority, argues John

Biology and the human body CHRISTMAS LECTURES

Who am I? – What makes me, me? (2018)

Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght explore what makes humans human and what makes every person an individual.

Biology and the human body CHRISTMAS LECTURES

Who am I? – What makes me human? (2018)

Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght explore human evolution, from our earliest ancestors to our journey out of Africa.