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The media and medicine have different perspectives. This lecture will use examples of how the public may be misled and consider the implications of such misunderstanding.
Moving pictures may not have been the innovation once claimed, but within a decade few could doubt that they had become a major force in changing the Edwardian world.
Stereoscopic photography rapidly became a worldwide craze after the Great Exhibition of 1851. Cheap viewers and mass-produced stereographs brought startlingly vivid images within reach of a mass audience, making this the form in which most people first encountered photography.
An economic model for news that have existed for 200 years or more is disappearing. Are we facing the prospect of societies without 'news' as previously understood? And why does it matter?
This lecture tells a startling and unexpected story of science-communication success: the YouTube channel 'The Periodic Table of Videos,' which boasts over 130 million views in more than 200 counties. What is the secret to this educational success?
Professor Steve Jones will talk about the crafty ways of living creatures, from orchids to ourselves, and about how, beneath every beauty, lies a beast.
Insects are the most abundant and enduring multi-cellular life form ever to have evolved. As model organisms in research, insects have greatly helped our understanding of genetics, physiology and behaviour.
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