In Our Time: Science
By BBC Radio 4
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Sharon
Dec 7, 2022
Good coverage of the stories of scientists. Leisurely pace.
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Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
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Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Hormones
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Plankton
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Albert Einstein
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Jupiter
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Mitochondria
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Linnaeus
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May 18, 2023 |
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Paul Erdős
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Tycho Brahe
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Superconductivity
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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The Fish-Tetrapod Transition
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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The Electron
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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The Death of Stars
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Homo erectus
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May 12, 2022 |
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Seismology
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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In Our Time is now first on BBC Sounds
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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William and Caroline Herschel
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Corals
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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The Manhattan Project
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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The Evolution of Crocodiles
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Longitude
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May 13, 2021 |
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Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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The Late Devonian Extinction
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Emilie du Châtelet
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Eclipses
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Alan Turing
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Paul Dirac
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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The Evolution of Horses
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Solar Wind
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Hybrids
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Dorothy Hodgkin
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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Kinetic Theory
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May 23, 2019 |
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The Evolution of Teeth
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Pheromones
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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Aristotle's Biology
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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Emmy Noether
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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Venus
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Dec 27, 2018 |
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Free Radicals
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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Automata
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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Echolocation
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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The Proton
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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George and Robert Stephenson
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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Rosalind Franklin
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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Fungi
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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Cephalopods
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Nov 30, 2017 |
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Feathered Dinosaurs
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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Bird Migration
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Jul 06, 2017 |
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Enzymes
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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Louis Pasteur
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May 18, 2017 |
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Pauli's Exclusion Principle
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Apr 06, 2017 |
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The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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The Kuiper Belt
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Mar 02, 2017 |
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Maths in the Early Islamic World
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Feb 16, 2017 |
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Parasitism
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Jan 26, 2017 |
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Johannes Kepler
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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John Dalton
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Oct 27, 2016 |
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Plasma
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Oct 13, 2016 |
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Zeno's Paradoxes
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Sep 22, 2016 |
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The Invention of Photography
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Jul 07, 2016 |
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Penicillin
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Jun 09, 2016 |
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Euclid's Elements
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Apr 28, 2016 |
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1816, the Year Without a Summer
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Apr 21, 2016 |
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The Neutron
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Apr 14, 2016 |
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Robert Hooke
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Feb 18, 2016 |
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Chromatography
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Feb 04, 2016 |
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Saturn
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Jan 14, 2016 |
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Michael Faraday
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Dec 24, 2015 |
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Circadian Rhythms
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Dec 17, 2015 |
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P v NP
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Nov 05, 2015 |
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Perpetual Motion
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Sep 24, 2015 |
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Extremophiles
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Jun 25, 2015 |
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The Science of Glass
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May 28, 2015 |
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The Earth's Core
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Apr 30, 2015 |
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The Curies
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Mar 26, 2015 |
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Dark Matter
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Mar 12, 2015 |
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The Photon
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Feb 12, 2015 |
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Behavioural Ecology
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Dec 11, 2014 |
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Brunel
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Nov 13, 2014 |
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Nuclear Fusion
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Oct 30, 2014 |
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e
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Sep 25, 2014 |
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The Sun
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Jul 10, 2014 |
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Robert Boyle
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Jun 12, 2014 |
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Photosynthesis
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May 15, 2014 |
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States of Matter
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Apr 03, 2014 |
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The Eye
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Feb 27, 2014 |
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Social Darwinism
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Feb 20, 2014 |
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Catastrophism
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Jan 30, 2014 |
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Complexity
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Dec 19, 2013 |
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The Microscope
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Nov 28, 2013 |
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Galen
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Oct 10, 2013 |
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Exoplanets
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Oct 03, 2013 |
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Pascal
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Sep 19, 2013 |
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The Invention of Radio
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Jul 04, 2013 |
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Relativity
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Jun 06, 2013 |
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Cosmic Rays
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May 16, 2013 |
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Water
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Mar 28, 2013 |
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Absolute Zero
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Mar 07, 2013 |
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Pitt-Rivers
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Feb 28, 2013 |
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Comets
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Jan 17, 2013 |
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Crystallography
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Nov 28, 2012 |
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Fermat's Last Theorem
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Oct 25, 2012 |
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The Cell
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Sep 13, 2012 |
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Game Theory
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May 10, 2012 |
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Early Geology
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Apr 12, 2012 |
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The Measurement of Time
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Mar 29, 2012 |
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Conductors and Semiconductors
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Feb 23, 2012 |
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The Scientific Method
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Jan 26, 2012 |
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Macromolecules
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Dec 29, 2011 |
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The Hippocratic Oath
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Sep 15, 2011 |
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The Origins of Infectious Disease
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Jun 08, 2011 |
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The Neutrino
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Apr 14, 2011 |
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The Age of the Universe
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Mar 03, 2011 |
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The Nervous System
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Feb 10, 2011 |
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Random and Pseudorandom
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Jan 13, 2011 |
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Thomas Edison
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Dec 09, 2010 |
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Women and Enlightenment Science
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Nov 04, 2010 |
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Logic
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Oct 21, 2010 |
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Imaginary Numbers
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Sep 23, 2010 |
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Pliny's Natural History
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Jul 08, 2010 |
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Antarctica
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Jun 24, 2010 |
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The Neanderthals
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Jun 17, 2010 |
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The Cavendish Family in Science
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May 20, 2010 |
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The Cool Universe
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May 06, 2010 |
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The Infant Brain
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Mar 04, 2010 |
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Mathematics' Unintended Consequences
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Feb 11, 2010 |
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The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 4
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Jan 07, 2010 |
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The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 3
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Jan 06, 2010 |
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The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 2
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Jan 05, 2010 |
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The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1
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Jan 04, 2010 |
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Pythagoras
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Dec 10, 2009 |
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Radiation
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Nov 12, 2009 |
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The Geological Formation of Britain
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Oct 22, 2009 |
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Calculus
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Sep 24, 2009 |
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Ediacara Biota
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Jul 09, 2009 |
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Logical Positivism
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Jul 02, 2009 |
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The Whale - A History
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May 21, 2009 |
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The Vacuum of Space
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Apr 30, 2009 |
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Baconian Science
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Apr 02, 2009 |
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The Library of Alexandria
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Mar 12, 2009 |
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The Measurement Problem in Physics
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Mar 05, 2009 |
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The Observatory at Jaipur
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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Darwin: Life After Origins
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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Darwin: On the Origin of Species
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle
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Jan 06, 2009 |
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Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin
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Jan 05, 2009 |
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The Physics of Time
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Dec 18, 2008 |
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Heat
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Dec 04, 2008 |
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Neuroscience
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Nov 13, 2008 |
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Vitalism
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Oct 16, 2008 |
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Godel's Incompleteness Theorems
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Oct 09, 2008 |
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The Music of the Spheres
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Jun 19, 2008 |
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Lysenkoism
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Jun 05, 2008 |
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Probability
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May 29, 2008 |
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The Brain
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May 08, 2008 |
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The Laws of Motion
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Apr 03, 2008 |
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Ada Lovelace
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Mar 06, 2008 |
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The Multiverse
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Feb 21, 2008 |
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Plate Tectonics
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Jan 24, 2008 |
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The Four Humours
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Dec 20, 2007 |
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Genetic Mutation
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Dec 06, 2007 |
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The Fibonacci Sequence
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Nov 29, 2007 |
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Oxygen
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Nov 15, 2007 |
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Antimatter
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Oct 04, 2007 |
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The Permian-Triassic Boundary
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Jun 28, 2007 |
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Renaissance Astrology
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Jun 14, 2007 |
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Gravitational Waves
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May 17, 2007 |
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Symmetry
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Apr 19, 2007 |
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Anaesthetics
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Mar 29, 2007 |
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Microbiology
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Mar 08, 2007 |
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Optics
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Mar 01, 2007 |
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Popper
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Feb 08, 2007 |
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Archimedes
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Jan 25, 2007 |
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The Jesuits
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Jan 18, 2007 |
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Mars
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Jan 11, 2007 |
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Indian Mathematics
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Dec 14, 2006 |
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The Speed of Light
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Nov 30, 2006 |
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The Poincaré Conjecture
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Nov 02, 2006 |
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The Needham Question
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Oct 19, 2006 |
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Humboldt
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Sep 28, 2006 |
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Galaxies
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Jun 29, 2006 |
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Carbon
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Jun 15, 2006 |
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The Heart
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Jun 01, 2006 |
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Astronomy and Empire
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May 04, 2006 |
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Immunisation
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Apr 20, 2006 |
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The Royal Society
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Mar 23, 2006 |
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Negative Numbers
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Mar 09, 2006 |
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Human Evolution
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Feb 16, 2006 |
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Relativism
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Jan 19, 2006 |
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Prime Numbers
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Jan 12, 2006 |
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Artificial Intelligence
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Dec 08, 2005 |
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The Graviton
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Nov 24, 2005 |
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Asteroids
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Nov 03, 2005 |
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Mammals
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Oct 13, 2005 |
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Magnetism
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Sep 29, 2005 |
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The KT Boundary
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Jun 23, 2005 |
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Renaissance Maths
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Jun 02, 2005 |
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Perception and the Senses
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Apr 28, 2005 |
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Dark Energy
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Mar 17, 2005 |
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Alchemy
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Feb 24, 2005 |
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The Cambrian Period
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Feb 17, 2005 |
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The Mind/Body Problem
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Jan 13, 2005 |
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics
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Dec 16, 2004 |
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Jung
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Dec 02, 2004 |
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Higgs Boson
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Nov 18, 2004 |
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Electrickery
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Nov 04, 2004 |
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The Origins of Life
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Sep 23, 2004 |
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Pi
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Sep 02, 2004 |
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Renaissance Magic
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Jun 17, 2004 |
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The Planets
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May 27, 2004 |
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Zero
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May 13, 2004 |
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Hysteria
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Apr 22, 2004 |
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Theories of Everything
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Mar 25, 2004 |
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Dreams
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Mar 04, 2004 |
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Rutherford
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Feb 19, 2004 |
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Cryptography
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Jan 29, 2004 |
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Lamarck and Natural Selection
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Dec 24, 2003 |
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Ageing the Earth
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Nov 20, 2003 |
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Infinity
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Oct 23, 2003 |
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Maxwell
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Oct 02, 2003 |
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Nature
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Jul 10, 2003 |
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Vulcanology
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Jul 03, 2003 |
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The Lunar Society
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Jun 05, 2003 |
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Memory
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May 29, 2003 |
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Blood
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May 22, 2003 |
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The Life of Stars
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Mar 27, 2003 |
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Meteorology
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Mar 06, 2003 |
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Chance and Design
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Feb 13, 2003 |
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The Calendar
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Dec 19, 2002 |
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Man and Disease
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Dec 12, 2002 |
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Imagination
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Nov 28, 2002 |
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Human Nature
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Nov 07, 2002 |
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The Scientist
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Oct 24, 2002 |
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Psychoanalysis and Democracy
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Jul 11, 2002 |
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Drugs
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May 23, 2002 |
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Chaos Theory
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May 16, 2002 |
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The Physics of Reality
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May 02, 2002 |
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Extra Terrestrials
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Apr 04, 2002 |
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Anatomy
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Feb 14, 2002 |
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The Universe's Shape
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Feb 07, 2002 |
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Nuclear Physics
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Jan 10, 2002 |
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Genetics
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Dec 13, 2001 |
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Oceanography
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Nov 22, 2001 |
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The Earth's Origins
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Jul 05, 2001 |
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Black Holes
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Apr 12, 2001 |
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Fossils
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Mar 22, 2001 |
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Quantum Gravity
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Feb 22, 2001 |
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Imperial Science
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Feb 01, 2001 |
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Mathematics and Platonism
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Jan 11, 2001 |
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Psychoanalysis and Literature
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Nov 09, 2000 |
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Evolutionary Psychology
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Nov 02, 2000 |
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Laws of Nature
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Oct 19, 2000 |
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Imagination and Consciousness
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Jun 29, 2000 |
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Chemical Elements
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May 25, 2000 |
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Human Origins
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Apr 27, 2000 |
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The Natural Order
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Apr 06, 2000 |
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Grand Unified Theory
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Feb 24, 2000 |
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Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment
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Feb 10, 2000 |
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Information Technology
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Jan 13, 2000 |
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Climate Change
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Jan 06, 2000 |
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Time
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Dec 30, 1999 |
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Medical Ethics
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Dec 16, 1999 |
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Consciousness
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Nov 25, 1999 |
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Genetic Determinism
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Sep 23, 1999 |
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Pain
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Jul 22, 1999 |
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Intelligence
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Jul 01, 1999 |
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The Great Disruption
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Jun 17, 1999 |
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Memory and Culture
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May 27, 1999 |
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The Universe's Origins
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May 20, 1999 |
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Mathematics
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May 06, 1999 |
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Artificial Intelligence
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Apr 29, 1999 |
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Evolution
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Apr 15, 1999 |
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Animal Experiments and Rights
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Mar 18, 1999 |
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Space in Religion and Science
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Feb 18, 1999 |
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Language and the Mind
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Feb 11, 1999 |
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Psychoanalysis and its Legacy
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Feb 04, 1999 |
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Ageing
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Jan 28, 1999 |
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Genetic Engineering
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Jan 14, 1999 |
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Neuroscience in the 20th century
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Dec 24, 1998 |
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The Brain and Consciousness
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Nov 19, 1998 |
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Science in the 20th century
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Nov 05, 1998 |
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Science's Revelations
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Oct 29, 1998 |