Podcasts by Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video
Spring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lectures require no pre-booking, are free to attend and are open to anyone on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Stuff Matters - Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Whatever people think about the rapid pace of change of technology, our most fundamental categorization of stuff on the planet has not altered: there are living things and there is non-living stuff...
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Scandinavian crime fiction and the end of the welfare state - Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scandinavian crime fiction has in recent years enjoyed surprising success world-wide. The region, with its universal welfare states, is most commonly considered a very peaceful place, with low rate...
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Civil Engineers against the double negative - Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Is a culture of infallibility holding back our engineers by celebrating the avoidance of failure rather than the achievement of success? Do we really want our engineers to live their lives by the m...
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Genomics and Healthcare - Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Greater understanding of how genetic differences influence disease susceptibility and drug response has potentially important healthcare applications. This lecture, marking Heart Awareness Month, w...
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By the Donzerly Light: when our ears play tricks on us - Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Almost every song lyric can be misunderstood: famously, Jimi Hendrix’s 'Kiss the Sky' is often heard as 'Kiss This Guy'. Why does this happen? While slips of the tongue are well-known, slips of the...
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Can the Eurozone crisis be solved? - Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
There was plenty of scepticism among economists about the likely success of a common currency in Europe. The immediate problem is that peripheral countries have seen their public sectors incur larg...
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The influence of Islam on science - Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In recent years, there has been much discussion of the influence of classical Arabic science on the Western scientific tradition. Yet these achievements have been variously ignored, overlooked or o...
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Gravity and continuum - Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Within theoretical physics the gravitational force is the odd one out. It is much weaker than the other forces, its mathematical formulation is different and we are struggling to understand it. In ...
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Framing the digital: materialising new media - Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How are artists translating or materialising digital works for gallery and physical situations? Professor Collins shows a snapshot of works coming out of the Slade and the Slade Centre for Electron...
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Where to give birth, at home or in a hospital? Does it matter? - Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The last ten years have seen increasing emphasis on the importance of offering healthy women choice in where they give birth. However, to date, the evidence on the quality, safety and costs of diff...
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Xtreme Everest 2 Research Expedition - Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Following their successful ascent of Mount Everest in 2007, UCL’s Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment (CASE) Medicine will be returning to Everest in March 2013 to continue with thei...
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Science for everyone by everyone – the re-emergence of citizen science - Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Public participation in scientific research is not new. Many people are involved in scientific activities in their free time, from bird watching to weather or astronomical observations. Moreover, t...
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Obama's America: The significance of the 2012 elections - Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Barack Obama won a second term as US president with the support of women, the young, blue collars, African Americans and Latinos. The Republicans, in contrast, retained the support of their habitua...
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Gower Street to Euston Square: A local history of the Underground - Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The world’s first underground railway, the Metropolitan, steam-powered and running underneath Euston Road, opened in January 1863. The early history of underground travel in London was beset by the...
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From Bletchley Park to modern computing - the value of Twitter - Video from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Bletchley Park is the historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during World War II and the work carried out there by Alan Turing and others led to the birth of the modern computer. H...
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From Bletchley Park to modern computing - the value of Twitter - Video from 2013-01-23T15:30:29
Bletchley Park is the historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during World War II and the work carried out there by Alan Turing and others led to the birth of the modern computer. H...
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From Bletchley Park to modern computing - the value of Twitter - Video from 2013-01-23T15:30:29
Bletchley Park is the historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during World War II and the work carried out there by Alan Turing and others led to the birth of the modern computer. H...
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