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10. The Evolving Body: With Professor Randolph Nesse
Evolutionary physician Professor Randolph Nesse explores the idea of 'Darwin's eye', and discusses what evolution means for our bodies, our emotions and our behaviour - as well as...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 13 Jul 2009
11. Darwin, Design and Christianity: With Professor John Brooke
John Brooke, former Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University, gives his take on the exhibition 'Endless Forms', and discusses the implications of...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 13 Jul 2009
6. A Tour of 'Endless Forms': With Sir Paul Nurse
Nobel Prize-winning biologist and Rockefeller University President Sir Paul Nurse takes a tour of the exhibition 'Endless Forms', introducing his personal highlights from a...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 6 Jul 2009
7. Evolving Philosophy: With Professor Philip Kitcher
Can Darwinian ideas of evolution and adaptation really explain why we are how we are? Philosopher of science Professor Philip Kitcher explores the insights - and pitfalls - that...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 7 Jul 2009
8. Darwin, Hooker and the Venus Flytraps: With Sir Peter Crane
Sir Peter Crane, Former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, talks about the fascinating friendship between Darwin and the botanist Joseph Hooker. (An audio-only podcast...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 8 Jul 2009
9. Humankind - A Troubling Future? With Lord Robert May
Lord Robert May, Former President of the Royal Society and UK Government Chief Advisor for Science explores the significance of Darwin and his 'unsolved problems' for the issues...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Thu 9 Jul 2009
Are we overdue for an eruption at Yellowstone? Clive Oppenheimer - Eruptions that shook the world
Dr Clive Oppenheimer discusses cyclical volcanic activity, specifically regarding whether we are overdue for a volcanic event at Yellowstone National Park.
Collection: Cambridge Science Festival 2012
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 14 Mar 2012
Biodiversity and Spirituality
Panel Discussion as part of the Science Festival on 13th March.
Panel members: Prof. R J Berry
Dr Barny Dickson
Dr Hilary Marlow
Dr Simon Stuart
Chair: Prof. Bob White
Collection: Faraday Institute Lectures
Institution: Faraday Institute
Created: Mon 15 Mar 2010
Challenged by carbon: the oil industry and climate change
We still need fossil fuels, but recent studies of the geological record show that we cannot burn with impunity the remaining supplies of coal, gas and oil, releasing the CO2. Join...
Collection: Cambridge Science Festival Talks
Institution: Temporary Employment Service
Created: Mon 18 Apr 2011
Future Engineers
Children are introduced to basic engineering skills at science festivals, to show that science is applicable to everyday life.
Collection: Featured content
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 6 Aug 2008
Human Enhancement: How far should we go
Panel discussion between Dr Pete Moore, Dr Anders Sandberg, Dr Georgia Testa and Prof. John Wyatt as part of the science festival
Collection: Faraday Institute Lectures
Institution: Faraday Institute
Created: Tue 5 Apr 2011
Is there a link between volcanic activity and ice age frequency - Eruptions that shook the world
Dr Clive Oppenheimer discusses whether there is a link between volcanic activity and ice age frequency. Does polar climate change affect the frequency of volanic activity?
Collection: Cambridge Science Festival 2012
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 14 Mar 2012
Plant Sciences at the Cambridge Science Festival 2015
Enlightened Plants will be available on Saturday 14 March, from 10am on the lawn outside the Plant Sciences Department, Downing Street
Collection: CambPlants
Institution: Department of Plant Sciences
Created: Thu 26 Feb 2015
Richard Dawkins at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas: the magic of reality
Collection: Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2011
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 3 Nov 2011
Science and Islam
This lecture tells the history of one of the most misunderstood, yet rich and fertile periods in science: the Islamic scientific revolution between 700 and 1500 AD. Science writer...
Collection: Cambridge Science Festival Spotlight on Science
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 24 Mar 2010
Science and Islam - clip 1
Clip 1 from the Science Festival Spotlight on Science lecture, Science and Islam
Collection: Cambridge Science Festival Spotlight on Science
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 24 Mar 2010
Science and Religion: Friends or Foes?
Panel Discussion between Dr Usama Hasan, Prof. John Hedley Brooke, Revd Dr Rodney Holder and Revd Dr John Polkinghorne, chaired by Dr Denis Alexander as part of the Festival of...
Collection: Faraday Institute Lectures
Institution: Faraday Institute
Created: Tue 1 Nov 2011
Science Festival
The Cambridge Science Festival engages the public through hands-on science activities.
Collection: Featured content
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 6 Aug 2008
Science Festival Highlights
2013 Science Festival Highlights taken from events in the Babbage and Lady Mitchell Hall Theatres
Collection: Central Sites Technical Services
Institution: Facilities Management
Created: Wed 19 Feb 2014
Science futures at the Cambridge Science Festival
Science research funding is hitting some lean economic times. With less money should science be led by its economic impact? How will the research landscape change? Join leading...
Collection: Cambridge Science Festival 2011
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 22 Mar 2011