Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
Does Net Zero Mean the End of Livestock Agriculture? Diet and agriculture are borderline untouchable “third rail” issues in...
Local or global? Network economics and the new economy Should we prefer the brittle resilience of a very nervous...
Progresses: Royal Courts on the Move in Tudor and Stuart England Most summers Tudor and Stuart monarchs took their court on...
Divine Law, Human Prophet: Moses in Hebrew and Greek The Hebrew lawgiver Moses was compared to ancient Greek lawgivers...
Carbon Offsetting: Does It Really Work? Offsets, politely called carbon credit markets, are essential to many...
Why Does Britain Have a Water and Sewage Crisis? The discharge of raw sewage into rivers, as well as...
The Connected Brain: Network and Communication The brain is mostly organised into small modular regions connected...