The Lisbon Earthquake: Two hundred and fifty years on On 1 November 1755, Lisbon was devastated by a massive...
Humanity and a Million Years of Sea Level Change Homo sapiens evolved over the last million years during which...
Metamorphoses – The Terrible Beauty of Change A Fusion of Benjamin Britten's "Six Metamorphoses After Ovid" (Op.49)...
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire In 1945, the imperial possessions of Great Britain circled the...
The Economics of the Very Long Run: From Fire to Finance in Two Million Years An economist's view of two million years of human history...
Danish Fairy Tales? From Andersen and the Copenhagen consensus towards a theory of commerce What are markets and why do they matter? What would...
Sir Robert Moray - Soldier, scientist, spy, freemason and founder of The Royal Society Sir Robert Moray brought together members of Gresham College, rich...
Stealing the silver: How we take from the dispossessed, the poor and our own children There are numerous cases where well-meaning people find themselves defending...
Science Fiction as a Literary Genre: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture This part of the symposium included the following talks: Introduction...