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I will start by looking at the mythology that has gathered around the Golden Ratio, and also consider the fairness of cake-cutting, and changing choices in the Monty Hall problem.
This lecture uncovers what we know about the ‘real Sappho’, an aristocrat who lived between 630 and 570 BCE on the island of Lesbos and socialised in the lavish courts of upstart tyrants.
An analysis of what we can learn of the earth’s fragile ecology from what is being revealed thanks to recent developments in space technology which have allowed us to view the Earth in new and amazing ways, identifying our impact on land, atmosphere, oceans and freshwater in astonishing detail.