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    Plastics from Potatoes, Rubber from Rice

    This talk shows that the incorporation of a simple salt can lead to a flexible plastic with mechanical properties similar to oil derived plastics. Most importantly these plastics are recyclable and ultimately compostable.

    Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Poetic Revolution

    Jonathan Bate will explain what Hazlitt meant and why Lyrical Ballads, the product of Wordsworth's intimate friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is one of the greatest and most influential volumes of poetry ever written.

    English Landscape: Constable and Clare

    Constable's Stour landscapes of the Regency period, during and just after the War with France, and his publication English Landscape Scenery, champion local and low-key rural England.

    Bach's 'Orgelbüchlein' (Little Organ Book)

    A musical journey into The Orgelbüchlein - the jewel in Bach's organ music - a collection of magnificent miniatures which encompass all the musical emotions and which allow the organist to show all the colours and sonorities of the instrument at his disposal.

    From Test-Tube to YouTube

    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?

    A Little Light Relief

    Light, particularly sunlight, has always occupied a mystical power and is commonly held to bestow good health upon recipients of its rays. Both the truth and fallacy in this will be demonstrated with science of photo-medicine from a chemist’s point of view.

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