Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
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Welcome to a brand new podcast by Gresham College called Any Further Questions? This is a podcast where we sit down with one of our speakers for an in-depth candid discussion on the lecture they just gave. Due to our strict 1 hour lecture time, we get tons of questions from our online and in-person audience that go unanswered. This is the place they are answered.
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MhChem Chemistry with Dr. Michael Russell
Dr. Michael Russell of Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon USA (mhchem.org)
A podcast supporting the chemistry students of Dr. Michael Russell at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon, USA.
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Does the UK Constitution need reform? - Charles Falconer PC, KC
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The Gray's Inn Reading 2024 Does the UK’s constitution provide too much freedom for those that wish to abuse it? Specific examples of this might include Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s lawbreaking during COVID, the selection of Liz Truss as Prime Minister, the ability of the Government to force controversial policies (such as the Rwanda Bill) and th…
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Plato's Cave: Thinking about Climate Change - Melissa Lane
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In The Republic, Plato explores the predicament of the Cave: a passive citizen body, a conniving and self-interested set of sophistic opinion-formers and demagogic political leaders, a systematically misleading and damaging order of political structures and common beliefs and appetites. Does this have lessons for tackling climate change? In clingin…
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The Bloomsbury Group: A Queer History - Nino Strachey
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This lecture will explore the world of the second Bloomsbury generation, delving into the intricacies of being young and queer in the 1920s, and how their open way of living and loving is still relevant to our present day. Lesser known than their predecessors, they continued the celebration of freedom of expression and creativity. The lecture will …
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Are Financial Markets Efficient? - Raghavendra Rau
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One of the crucial ideas in finance is that markets are efficient – that they fully reflect all available information. If so, what about market bubbles? Over the last year, people have been willing to pay exorbitant amounts for extremely odd assets such as Non-Fungible Tokens, meme stocks etc. Why do they do this? This lecture will explore some inv…
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S02 Ep.13 - First Light: Revealing the Early Universe, Chris Lintott
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Send us a Text Message. How do we know light is constant throughout the universe? What new technology or theory would we need to further develop our understanding of the beginnings of the universe? How do you know that the galaxies are made of certain elements? These and many more questions were put to Professor Chris Lintott for episode 13 of our …
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Witch-Hunting in European and World History - Ronald Hutton
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This lecture confronts the worldwide phenomenon of the persecution of suspected witches, now a serious, contemporary problem condemned by the UN in 2021. It will show what has been unusual about Europe in this global pattern, and why the notorious early modern witch hunts there commenced and ended. This lecture was recorded by Ronald Hutton on 5th …
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A Mathematician's View of Proof - Sarah Hart
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The idea of proof is fundamental to mathematics. We could argue that science consists of testable theories, and therefore that it is about what can be disproved, not what can be proved. In law, the test is “beyond reasonable doubt”. Famous conjectures in mathematics have been tested by computers for trillions of numbers – but we still call them con…
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A screencast from Chapter 1 in CH 221 which looks at the three temperature scales used by chemists frequently.Michael Russell
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A screencast from Chapter 1 in CH 221 which looks at precision, accuracy, parts per thousand, and more.Michael Russell
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Chapter 1 Complete Lecture Part I
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This the Complete Lecture for Chapter 1. This episode is part 1 of 2 episodes.Michael Russell
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Chapter 1 Complete Lecture Part II
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This the Complete Lecture for Chapter 1. This episode is part 2 of 2 episodes.Michael Russell
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Experts in politics: Lessons from Socrates and Aristotle - Melissa Lane
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Socrates sought to test the expertise of everyone around him: the bombastic know-it-alls, the bashful youths, the confident generals, those (including the enslaved) with unsuspected mathematical competence, the workaday artisans. Aristotle later explored the ways in which expert claims can be made credible to popular judgement. This lecture conside…
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First light: Revealing the Early Universe - Chris Lintott
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The final lecture in the series returns to the theme of how insight is derived from observations, considering the cosmic microwave background. This oldest light in the Universe, emitted just 400,000 years after the Big Bang, contains the seeds of the structures we see around us, and tells us about conditions at the Universe's beginning. It will als…
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Morals & Markets - Episode 1 - Martin Daunton & Richard Whatmore
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is part of a series called 'Morals & Markets'. Visiting Prof. of Economic History, Martin Daunton has conversations with three authors whose books have interrogated the underlying assumptions on economics. Episode 1 sees Martin sit down with Richard Whatmore, author of 'The End of Enlightenment'. Support the Sho…
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Race, Disability & Education: Law's Uphill Battle - Leslie Thomas KC
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This lecture traces the history of race and disability law in the English education system. It examines the impact of discriminatory policies on Black children, children of colour, and disabled children, and how narratives around race and disability have changed. The lecture questions why inequality persists and explores possible solutions. This le…
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S02 Ep.12 - How Cancer Genomics is Transforming Cancer Care, Prof. Sanjay Popat
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is part of a series of lectures called 'New Hope in Cancer' sponsored by Novartis. What do we mean by Cancer genomics? What are the introns in our DNA used for? Are they just a place-holder DNA or is there actual use for it? Should cancer care be delivered differently? These and many more questions were put to S…
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Logarithms: Mobile Phones, Modelling & Statistics?
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Logarithms were perhaps once thought of as just an old-fashioned way to do sums on slide rules. But they underpin much of modern life, from modelling the COVID pandemic to Claude Shannon’s mathematical theory of information (which makes mobile phones a reality) and making sense of Cristiano Ronaldo’s crazy Instagram follower numbers. This lecture w…
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A Just and Inclusive Net Zero: Who should get there first? - Myles Allen
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Eventually, net zero needs to include everyone: for emissions to continue in half the world while the other half mops them up is both unsustainable and unfair. But this does not mean every country should reach net zero at the same time. Historical emitters like the UK should aim for net zero before the world as a whole, but a “staggered net zero” a…
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Asymmetric Information in Finance Explained - Raghavendra Rau
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In every financial transaction, one side has more information than the other. For example, when someone buys a used car, the seller will know better than the buyer whether the car is a plum or a lemon. Does more information leave you better off? One of the fascinating ideas behind the concept of asymmetric information is that more information can l…
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S02 Ep.11 - Immunotherapy: Cure for Metastatic Cancers?, James Larkin
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is part of a series of lectures called 'New Hope in Cancer' sponsored by Novartis. In which stage is the best time to use immunotherapy? What is the role of immunology in rarer cancers? Can or has artificial intelligence helped the advancement of immunotherapy? These and many more questions were put to James for…
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Is Music Infinite? - Milton Mermikides
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This lecture explores the very limits of music: investigating historical efforts to catalogue musical materials including the melacarta of Carnatic music, the wazn of Arabic maqam, Slonimsky’s Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns, Schillinger’s Encyclopedia of Rhythms, Forte numbers, and contemporary attempts to ‘pre-copyright’ every possible m…
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Twentieth-Century Divas: Julie Andrews - Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
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Starring in My Fair Lady (1956), The Sound of Music (1965) and Cinderella (1957) gave Dame Julie Andrews unparalleled profile. These were among the most successful Broadway, Hollywood and TV musicals of their time. Yet following this golden decade, she made few films and appeared in no Broadway shows during her forties and fifties, typically an art…
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Health after Extreme Cold, Heat, Storms and Floods - Professor Sir Chris Whitty
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Weather and climate-related events can cause significant mortality and disability. Sudden cold, heat, storms and floods all present risks to health, especially to the most vulnerable. Even in countries with temperate climates like the UK, weather-related deaths can be in the thousands, for example cold snaps causing cardiovascular deaths. In countr…
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How to Prove 1=0, And Other Maths Illusions - Sarah Hart
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In this lecture I will show you some mathematical illusions: “proofs” that 1=0, that fractions don’t exist, and more. There are curious and important implications behind what’s going on. These “proofs” reveal some very common logical slips that can go unnoticed when we are trying to prove more plausible statements. And the stakes are high. As I’ll …
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Evolution Tomorrow and Beyond - Robin May
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Evolution has led from amoebae to blue whales and from algae to giant redwoods. So what might it do in the future? What species might evolve in the next ten million years? How will evolutionary processes change as a result of human innovation and what are the risks of us getting it disastrously wrong? What might evolution look like if we ever set u…
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The Next Fifty Years of Tech - Dr Victoria Baines
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Come take a ride in the Tech Time Machine and explore how IT may change our lives in the next fifty years. By employing techniques used by science fiction writers, we can imagine how Artificial Intelligence, extended reality, mobile connectivity, quantum computing, and others will develop. How will they converge, enable and accelerate each other? W…
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Musical Consonance and Dissonance: The Good, Bad and Beautifully Ugly - Milton Mermikides
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What makes a piece of music challenging, bland, intriguing, beautiful or ugly? This lecture explores the concept of ‘musical flavour’ formed by intervallic, rhythmic and timbral components and how they contribute to a sense of consonance and dissonance. In particular we look at the interval vector, a system by which harmonic objects are analysed as…
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Is it Aliens? The Most Unusual Star In The Galaxy - Chris Lintott
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Boyajian's star, a faint and unprepossessing presence in the constellation of Cygnus, attracted astronomers' attention when it began to flicker alarmingly. We will discuss explanations for its behaviour, from disintegrating comets to alien megastructures, and consider how modern astronomy hunts for the truly unusual objects in the Universe. For thi…
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The Western Magical Tradition - Ronald Hutton
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This lecture makes a survey of learned ceremonial magic in Europe throughout history and demonstrates that both of the customary claims made for it by practitioners since the Middle Ages are actually correct: that there is a continuous tradition of it and that it is ultimately derived from ancient Egypt. In doing so, it also shows what is distincti…
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Locating Queer History - Matt Cook
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Queer urban life has changed dramatically in England over the last seventy years. Shifts in the economy, culture, attitudes, and technology have all played their part in this. London has often been used as the barometer for these shifts, suggesting they were experienced in similar ways across the nation. In an exploration of the queer contours of L…
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Refugees: English Law's Protection or Persecution? - Leslie Thomas KC
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How are refugees protected in English law? This lecture traces the history of refugee protection, the limits of the Refugee Convention, and changes to the law in recent decades that have made refugees’ lives increasingly difficult. The Government’s latest tranche of policies: the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and the Rwanda offshoring scheme, ar…
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The Geopolitical Risks of Climate Change - Myles Allen
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Climate Change is predicted to spark increasing threats to food security and demands for climate reparations, fuelling geopolitical instability. Probably the greatest risk of all, is tension over solar geo-engineering: the idea of reflecting away sunlight deliberately to modify global climate. Recognizing solar geo-engineering as an inherently dest…
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S02 Ep.10 - Modern Concepts of ADHD, Peter Hill
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Send us a Text Message. Are there any overlaps between ADHD and Autism? Does your childhood determine whether you more susceptible to ADHD later in life? Can you have an Attention Deficit and not Hyperactivity? These and many more questions were put to Peter for episode 10 of our new series! This podcast followed his lecture ‘Modern Concepts of ADH…
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Sustainable Energy in Refugee Camps - Dr Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen
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Most of the world’s 102 million forcibly displaced people – refugees – lack access to reliable, affordable, sustainable energy. Attempts to provide such energy in refugee camps have been marred by governance challenges, and a lack of technical expertise within humanitarian organisations. But new research discussed in this lecture on the lived exper…
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What went wrong in Latin America? - Martin Daunton
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In the Great Depression, producers of food and raw materials complained that they received low prices and paid high prices for industrial imports. Latin America adopted ‘import substituting industrialisation’ to encourage production behind tariff barriers. This approach continued after the war as more countries gained independence. Did this policy …
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Lead: A Toxic Legacy - Dr Ian Mudway
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Evidence that childhood lead exposure caused stunted intelligence and behavioural problems motivated efforts to ban lead in petrol, with the world finally eradicating leaded fuel in 2021. This is a public health success story, but it took a long time to force industry to take action. The lead released from historic emissions persists within the env…
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Twentieth-Century Divas: Shirley Bassey - Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
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The Black Welsh singer started out recording cover versions of American songbook classics but rose to international fame after her performance of the title song of Goldfinger. Movie songs, successful albums and popular television specials followed, but so too did personal tragedy and a highly critical (and gendered) reputation of her professional b…
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S02 Ep.9 - Changes in the Concept of Autism, Francesca Happé CBE
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Send us a Text Message. What do we know about autistic women's experience of menopause? Is there any link between being an older mother/older parents and having a autistic child or is there no proven correlation? These and many more questions were put to Francesca for episode 9 of our new series! This podcast followed her lecture ‘Changes in the Co…
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Artificial Selection: How Humans have Shaped Evolution - Robin May
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We often think of evolution as ‘something that happened’ in the past. But of course, evolution is a constant, powerful process and one that is often unleashed by human behaviours. Often this is deliberate, we’ll look at how artificial selection has shaped our crops, livestock and domestic pets, and we’ll find out how modern science is uncovering th…
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Data Protection for Thrillseekers - Dr Victoria Baines
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We increasingly share with online services intimate details of our lives, such as mental health and reproductive data. Far from being a ‘tick box’ legal exercise, data protection is about fair and responsible use of our personal information. It gives us rights which we are entitled to exercise against mega corporations, governments, and anyone who …
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The Human Cost of Immigration Detention - Dr Greg Constantine
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Governments increasingly use detention as a central component of immigration and asylum policy. The lecture addresses several important questions. What does immigration detention look like? How is it a reflection of those societies that tolerate its use and the policies that support and endorse its expansion? What place does it have in the journeys…
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Democracy: Ancient Models, Modern Challenges - Melissa Lane
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Demokratia is the power (kratos) of the people (demos). But what kind of power, and who constitutes the people? Although ancient democracy is often stylized as “direct democracy” and so positioned as very different from modern “representative democracy,” in fact, issues of accountability are central to both. Ancient Greek models of holding leaders …
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New Hope in Cancer: A Panel Discussion - Dr Richard Sidebottom, Sanjay Popat and James Larkin
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In partnership with Novartis Treatments and research in cancer are moving very fast, giving new hope to many. This event will bring together speakers in the series to delve further into new treatments and research in cancer, including immunotherapy, genomics and AI imaging. This lecture was recorded by Parker Moss, Dr Richard Sidebottom, Sanjay Pop…
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