Engineering: Archimedes of Syracuse In the 3rd century BCE, the Sicilian polymath Archimedes significantly advanced human understanding of mathematics, geometry and astronomy.
Physics: Its Birth in Greek Ionia This lecture discusses the pioneering physical theories of Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Anaxagoras and Democritus.
Capitalism’s Transparent Failures: Exchanges as the epicentre of markets – a contradiction in terms? Author Patrick L. Young reviews the exchange landscape over 2,000...
Medieval Music: To Sing and Dance During the eighteenth century, Western Europe gradually relinquished a form...
The Carry Trade and Uncovered Interest Rate Parity Basic economic theory tells us that borrowing money in a...
LGBT Rights: Overcoming a Colonial Legacy Historically lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have been...
A Very Brief History of Computing, 1948-2015 The world's first modern computer, in Manchester in 1948, was...