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Video Changing Consciousness with Psychoactive Plants - with Michael Pollan and Jules Evans
Brain

Changing Consciousness with Psychoactive Plants - with Michael Pollan and Jules Evans

Humans have changed their consciousness with plants for millennia; from the legally and socially acceptable consumption of

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Video Christmas Lectures 2020: Engine Earth - with Chris Jackson
Climate

Christmas Lectures 2020: Engine Earth - with Chris Jackson

In the first lecture of the 2020 Christmas Lectures, geologist Chris Jackson shows us how the planet’s oldest rocks and fossils

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Video What Does it Take to Make a Universe? - with Harry Cliff
Physics

What Does it Take to Make a Universe? - with Harry Cliff

What is matter really made of? How does the stuff around us escape annihilation in the fearsome heat of the Big Bang? And will

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Video Lessons from Plants - with Beronda Montgomery

Lessons from Plants - with Beronda Montgomery

Beronda Montgomery explores how plants are masters of adaption and experience sensations that don’t require eyes or ears.

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Video How to Talk to a Science Denier - with Lee McIntyre
Art, culture and society

How to Talk to a Science Denier - with Lee McIntyre

Many people reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. Lee McIntyre argues that anyone can and should fight back

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Video Is Dark Matter Real? - with Sabine Hossenfelder
Physics

Is Dark Matter Real? - with Sabine Hossenfelder

What is the evidence for and against dark matter? Sabine argues for the superfluidity of dark matter that allows for a suitable

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Video What Are the New Discoveries in Human Biology? - with Dan Davis
Biology and the human body

What Are the New Discoveries in Human Biology? - with Dan Davis

Recent and dramatic breakthroughs in our understanding of the body will profoundly change the experience of being human in the

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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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