Florence Nightingale and her Crimean War Statistics: Lessons for hospital safety, public administration and nursing Professor McDonald will discusses the history and the myth surrounding...
Public Key Cryptography: Secrecy in Public For centuries massive intellectual effort has gone into methods of...
The Journey from Black-Hole Singularities to a Cyclic Cosmology Sir Roger Penrose gives the annual Sir Thomas Gresham lecture on The Journey from Black-Hole Singularities to a Cyclic Cosmology.
The Big Brain: Size and Intelligence For centuries, scientists have tried to identify what is special...
Engineering: Archimedes of Syracuse In the 3rd century BCE, the Sicilian polymath Archimedes significantly advanced human understanding of mathematics, geometry and astronomy.
Doing Business in Interstellar Space Imagine that interstellar trade is possible at speeds close to...