Cigarettes: the most successful product ever - Audio
Despite five decades of research into the harms of smoking and numerous successful public health campaigns, many people take up and continue with the ...
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio
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Spring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lectures require no pre-booking, are free to attend and are open to anyone on a first-come, first-served basis.
Stuff Matters - Audio
Whatever people think about the rapid pace of change of technology, our most fundamental categorization of stuff on the planet has not altered: there ...
Scandinavian crime fiction and the end of the welfare state - Audio
Scandinavian crime fiction has in recent years enjoyed surprising success world-wide. The region, with its universal welfare states, is most commonly ...
Civil Engineers against the double negative - Audio
Is a culture of infallibility holding back our engineers by celebrating the avoidance of failure rather than the achievement of success? Do we really ...
Genomics and Healthcare - Audio
Greater understanding of how genetic differences influence disease susceptibility and drug response has potentially important healthcare applications....
By the Donzerly Light: when our ears play tricks on us - Audio
Almost every song lyric can be misunderstood: famously, Jimi Hendrix’s 'Kiss the Sky' is often heard as 'Kiss This Guy'. Why does this happen? While s...
A diet to treat ageing - Audio
It has been known for some time that moderate dietary restriction can extend healthy lifespan in a variety of organisms. By experimenting on fruitflie...
Can the Eurozone crisis be solved? - Audio
There was plenty of scepticism among economists about the likely success of a common currency in Europe. The immediate problem is that peripheral coun...
The influence of Islam on science - Audio
In recent years, there has been much discussion of the influence of classical Arabic science on the Western scientific tradition. Yet these achievemen...
Gravity and continuum - Audio
Within theoretical physics the gravitational force is the odd one out. It is much weaker than the other forces, its mathematical formulation is differ...