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Cosmology of Ultimate Concern

Dementia: A Cultural History

Dementia is often designated the “plague” of the twenty-first century...

Where is everybody?

Are we alone? The universe is very big. Why do...

Life on Mars?

We know that some 3 to 4 thousand million years...

The Pathology of Discovery and Conquest

This lecture examined the spread of diseases that accompanied European...

Music of Earth and Space

Since Pythagoras, we have imagined the universe as a vast...

'The Great Unwashed'

Typhus, the subject of the fifth lecture in the series...

What Is the Exposome and Why Does It Matter to Your Health?

Our health and susceptibility to disease are not wholly written...

The Artful Universe

This lecture, looking at both art and science, explores the...

Blue Funk and Yellow Peril

‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth...