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How computers get it wrong: 2+2 = 5

When lives depend on calculations, human error can kill. From...

There are many kinds of pattern in mathematics and many...

How does my dog see? Do eagles have better vision...

Typhus, the subject of the fifth lecture in the series, was...

There are many circumstances in which it is important to...

Not necessarily, for example the average person has fewer than...

Long multiplication, long division and logarithms are, for many, dim-remembered...

Visual disorders affect the way we see, and therefore would...

‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth century...

Why do humans sleep? How much do we need to...