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Are we Losing the Ability to Focus?

In the age of perpetual distraction, are we losing the ability to focus?

• 40 mins

The Wind: Its Impact on Earth and in Space

How the wind shapes our environment from the sea to art and outer space

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Why Do we Need the State?

Is it time to rethink what a modern state is for?

• 40 mins

The Bicycle: Freedom Machine

How important is the bicycle and what does it do for us?

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Boundaries

Boundaries: real and imagined

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Fragmentation: How Tiny Pieces Explain the Whole Picture

What can fragmented knowledge and physical matter tell us?

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India's Urban Challenge

Will India cope once the majority of its people live in cities?

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Core: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

What lies at the heart of the universe and the core of the earth itself?

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Expansion and Growth

Exploring ideas about expansion and growth

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Reconciliation: Healing the Nation

What is the best way to redress historical injustices?

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Being Cold

How weather affects a nation鈥檚 character

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A Leap of Faith: Finding Common Ground Between Science and Religion

Can there be a common ground between science and religion?

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Symbols, Signs and Secrets. What symbols tell us about ourselves.

Why symbols are so important, their history and their future.

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The Past, Present and Future of Shipping

New ways to travel across the ocean and to find out what lies in its depths

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The Hidden Power of Noise

Why we should all pay more attention to background noise.

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Grass Roots

Grass Roots: How 鈥榩eople鈥檚鈥� movements are changing.

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A Very Long View

Tracking changes in our lives and bodies over decades, generations and even millennia

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Consumption and Our Identity

How what we consume shapes and defines our identity

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Reawakening Language

Reawakening language and culture

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The Pleasures and Perils of Storytelling

Why do we see a narrative in everything?

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Machine Translation: The End of the Human Translator?

Will new technology mean the end of the human translator?

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Anger

Why do we get cross?

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Oxygen: Its History and its Future

The history and the future of oxygen

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The Benefits of Simplicity

How to make the world simpler

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The Element of Surprise

How open are you to the unexpected?

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Advances in Bioengineering

Bridging the divide between living and inorganic matter

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The Human Face: How We See Each Other

How humans and machines interpret facial expressions

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Taming Nature

What lies behind our desire to improve and perfect nature

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Living at the Edge: Life in Extreme Environments

Extreme life on earth and in space.

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A Single World, Many Identities?

Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, Nick Bostrom and Ann Phoenix from UCL discuss identity

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