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Why we see what we do
With Professor William Ayliffe FRCS PhD
The visual system has developed to allow us to navigate in a complex and dangerous world in order to find food and to avoid danger.  This survival system works by building a complex three-dimensional model based on two-dimensional ...
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Visual Perception
With Professor William Ayliffe FRCS PhD
The eye, although a critical component of sight, is not where vision occurs. The ability to interpret  the signals generated in the eye by the brain allows for the perception of vision. Sight is a complex sense requiring ...
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Vision and the Artist
With Professor William Ayliffe FRCS PhD
Visual disorders affect the way we see, and therefore would be expected to influence how we depict the world in drawings and paintings.  This fascinating subject is explored using images created by artists with known defects.  We ...
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Twenty-first Century Threats: Tuberculosis
With Professor William Ayliffe FRCS PhD
This lecture is a part of the series Twenty-First Century Threats. Other lectures in this series include the following:      HIV/AIDS      Malaria      Lyme Disease
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Transplantation and the Eye
With Professor William Ayliffe FRCS PhD
The first successful solid organ transplant was the cornea in Moravia in 1905. However both science and clinical tools then available were unable to allow further advances. The discovery of the natural barriers to transplantation enabled understanding of the biology ...
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The Window on the Soul
With Professor William Ayliffe FRCS PhD
Vision is the dominant sense through which sighted people have developed our culture.  It requires enormous computational power: over half of the human brain is assigned to create vision from the electrical impulses generated by light.  Since ...
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The Rule of Law and its Enemies: The Landscape of Law [The 2012 BBC Reith Lecture]
With Professor Niall Ferguson
The historian Niall Ferguson delivers a lecture, recorded at Gresham College in the heart of legal London, addressing the relationship between the nature of law and economic success. He examines the rule of law in comparative terms, asking how ...
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The Origins of the NHS
With Professor Virginia Berridge
This lecture looks at the origins of the NHS; there have been many historical debates about the NHS and its origins. Such questions which are discussed are the debate about conflict or consensus. Did the NHS come about through ...
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The Iconography of Blindness: How artists have portrayed the blind
With Professor William Ayliffe FRCS PhD
Blind people have always been with us. The attitudes of societies has varied over the years from disgust and horror to sympathy and kindness. How a painter depicts whether a subject cannot see in contrast to those who can ...
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The Human Eye and Vision
With Professor William Ayliffe FRCS PhD
This introduction to the series covers the structure and function of the human eye. The historical concept of the eye as a simple image-forming device has been transformed to the modern view of the eye as a sophisticated image-processing ...
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The History of Cataract Surgery
With Professor William Ayliffe FRCS PhD
The commonest operation in the world is responsible for restoring sight to millions of blind and visually disabled people every year. From humble beginnings in India over 2,000 years ago it was refined by French surgeons in the Enlightenment. Over ...
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The Future of London's Hospitals
With Dr Patricia Oakley
Part of the Safeguarding London's Health, Monday's at One lecture series. Other lectures in this series are:    Medieval Hospitals of London, by William Ayliffe FRCS PhD    The Origins ...
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27 January 2021 - 1:00PM
Cosmic Vision: Unravelling Rainbows
28 January 2021 - 6:00PM
BBC Radio in the LP Era (1948–1982)
1 February 2021 - 1:00PM
Neutrino: The Particle that Shouldn’t Exist
1 February 2021 - 6:00PM
Building Back Better – The City’s Role in a Green-Led Economic Recovery
2 February 2021 - 6:00PM
An Introduction to Programs
3 February 2021 - 6:00PM
England’s Tudor Reformation
4 February 2021 - 6:00PM
Is There a Level Playing Field at Inquests? From Death on the Rock to the Birmingham Pub Bombings
8 February 2021 - 6:00PM
The Secrets of Darwin’s Greenhouse
9 February 2021 - 1:00PM
Mathematical Journeys into Fictional Worlds
10 February 2021 - 6:00PM
Vaccination
11 February 2021 - 6:00PM
Mata Hari: Femme Fatales
15 February 2021 - 6:00PM
Far From Hollywood: New Kinds of Classic Film
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