Mercury rising: health warnings for a hot planet Daily news bulletins threaten devastation from climate change, with dire...
How many healthy people can the earth support? From Malthus to the Club of Rome, predictions about maximum...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer This lecture will explore the 'celebrification' of contemporary popular culture...
Getting a life: Limits to health in the 21st century Our health and longevity are affected by a multitude of...
Birth control, Death control and the Demographic Transition The improving survival rates of children, and the freedom to...