Blind Spots & Bad Decisions: Why We Fall for Financial Traps Why do smart people make dumb financial choices? This lecture...
Enclosures of the Mind: Governing the Intellectual Commons We are living in an age of remarkable intellectual property...
Being a Guitarist in the Time of Byron and Shelley With a player’s insight (a guitar of 1825 is my...
From Machiavelli to Nietzsche: How Modern Thinkers Saw Ancient Lawgivers For many modern thinkers, the lawgiver has been important as...
Ghost of Scandals Past: A Short History of Financial Scandals The litany of great financial scandals is long, and sadly...
Haydn in London: The Revolutionary Drawing Room This concert looks at 18th century music making and the...
The life and legacy of Dr Edward Jenner FRS, pioneer of vaccination Known to many as “the father of immunology”, Edward Jenner...
The Troubled Brain: Ageing and Dementia Diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s are devastating neurological conditions...