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Exchanges At The Frontier 2011

Episode 5 - Steven Pinker

AC Grayling in conversation with Steven Pinker, a leading authority on language and mind

• 55 mins

Robert Langer - Biochemical Engineer

What treatments are in the pipeline from the realm of medical tissue engineering?

• 55 mins

Jeremy Farrar - Epidemiologist

What if anything can be done to allay the risks of global epidemics?

• 55 mins

Frances Ashcroft - Physiologist

Electrical charges in the human body - what are the implications for disease and cures?

• 55 mins

Lisa Randall - Professor of Physics

How many dimensions did the big bang bang?

• 55 mins

Jitendra Goswami

What is the motivation behind India's mission to Mars?

• 55 mins

Bonnie Bassler, Professor of Molecular Biology

Can understanding of how bacteria communicate solve the problem of failing antibiotics?

• 55 mins

Henry Markram, Director of the Human Brain Project

Building a super computer which will virtually replicate the human brain

• 55 mins

Iain Couzin - Collective Animal Behaviour

Why do fish shoal, birds flock and locusts swarm?

• 55 mins

Kay Redfield Jamison, Professor of Psychiatry

Psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison on the disastrous highs and lows of bipolar disorder

• 55 mins

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Genomics

Prof Nazneen Rahman and her search for genes that can cause cancer

• 55 mins

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Robotics

Nasa engineer Ashitey Trebi-Ollenu explains how to drive a robot on Mars

• 55 mins

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Saving Coral

Marine Biologist Mary Hagedorn has an innovative plan to save the coral reefs

• 55 mins

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Emotion of Decision Making

Does emotion influence decision-making and do we make worse decisions as we get older?

• 55 mins

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Drug Resistant Malaria

How do we halt the rise of drug resistant malaria? Nick White and Francois Nosten discuss

• 55 mins

Is Pain an Emotion?

Irene Tracey known as the Queen of Pain shows how the brain can be easily tricked

• 49 mins

The Search for Hunger Genes

Professor Sadaf Farooqi looks at why some people put on weight and others don’t

• 49 mins

Supermassive Black Holes and the Evolution of Galaxies

A once in 10,000 year event gave astrophysicist Thaisa Storchi Bergman her eureka moment

• 49 mins

The Search for Neanderthal Genes

How much of a Neanderthal are you? Svante Paabo reveals the secrets of our genes

• 49 mins