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Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio

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 U... Read more

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Cigarettes: the most successful product ever - Audio

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 ... Read more

18 Apr 2013

40mins

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Stuff Matters - Audio

Stuff Matters - Audio

Whatever people think about the rapid pace of change of technology, our most fundamental categorization of stuff on the ... Read more

18 Apr 2013

39mins

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Scandinavian crime fiction and the end of the welfare state - Audio

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 wel... Read more

20 Mar 2013

41mins

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Civil Engineers against the double negative - Audio

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 achieve... Read more

20 Mar 2013

39mins

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Genomics and Healthcare - Audio

Genomics and Healthcare - Audio

Greater understanding of how genetic differences influence disease susceptibility and drug response has potentially impo... Read more

14 Mar 2013

41mins

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By the Donzerly Light: when our ears play tricks on us - Audio

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'.... Read more

14 Mar 2013

40mins

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A diet to treat ageing - Audio

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.... Read more

1 Mar 2013

40mins

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Can the Eurozone crisis be solved? - Audio

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 p... Read more

1 Mar 2013

41mins

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The influence of Islam on science - Audio

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 t... Read more

19 Feb 2013

42mins

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Gravity and continuum - Audio

Gravity and continuum - Audio

Within theoretical physics the gravitational force is the odd one out. It is much weaker than the other forces, its math... Read more

19 Feb 2013

41mins

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