Essay/Physics Operation: neutrino How the neutrino went from ghost particle to vital physics tool – a tale of bombs, espionage and subtle flavours David Kaiser
Essay/Bioethics The pig on your plate That pigs are smart and sensitive is not in doubt. How can we justify continuing to kill them for food? Barbara J King
Video/History of Science In 1938, a fish thought extinct for 65 million years resurfaced, nearly unchanged 7 minutes
Essay/History America’s hidden philosophy When Cold War philosophy tied rational choice theory to scientific method, it embedded the free-market mindset in US society John McCumber
Video/Ethics Pain leads to empathy and self-preservation: should we make robots ‘feel’ it? 12 minutes
Idea/Politics & Government Moderation may be the most challenging and rewarding virtue Aurelian Craiutu
Essay/Cultures & Languages Is linguistics a science? Much of linguistic theory is so abstract and dependent on theoretical apparatus that it might be impossible to explain Arika Okrent
Essay/Philosophy of Mind I attend, therefore I am You are only as strong as your powers of attention, and other uncomfortable truths about the self Carolyn Dicey Jennings
Essay/Work The future is emotional Human jobs in the future will be the ones that require emotional labour: currently undervalued and underpaid but invaluable Livia Gershon
Essay/Values & Beliefs Dissolving the ego You don’t need drugs or a church for an ecstatic experience that helps transcend the self and connect to something bigger Jules Evans
Video/Personality Magic from the mundane – paper towels flourish in the hands of a coffeeshop artist 2 minutes
Essay/History of Ideas The anger of Achilles Homer’s warrior is no mere tragic human figure: fuelled by anger, he is at once a man of honour and a sword of the gods C D C Reeve
Video/Demography & Migration An immigrant mother and her daughter finally explore the things they had left unsaid 5 minutes
Idea/Cognition & Intelligence How we learn to read another’s mind by looking into their eyes Tobias Grossmann
Essay/Demography & Migration Law in the Jungle The ultimate ‘outsider’ space, the Jungle refugee camp in Calais became its own society, the no-borders idea made real Natasha King
Video/History of Technology What does innovation sound like? For a century, typewriters chattered an evolving story 21 minutes
Essay/Neuroscience When is stress good for you? The subtle flows and toxic hits of stress get under the skin, making and breaking the body and brain over a lifetime Bruce McEwen
Video/Cultures & Languages The reverence and revelry of a New Orleans jazz funeral procession 2 minutes
Essay/Philosophy of Mind I attend, therefore I am You are only as strong as your powers of attention, and other uncomfortable truths about the self Carolyn Dicey Jennings
Video/Physics If life feels out of balance, don’t worry – there’s always symmetry below the surface 4 minutes
Essay/Economics Of money and morals Moneylending has been taboo for most of human history. So how did usury stop being a sin and become respectable finance? Alex Mayyasi