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Scientific Examination of Art

Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on the documentation techniques in art forensics, types of paints and how can we use spectrum analysis to detect art forgeries

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Popper and Kuhn on Theory Change

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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

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Animal Sentience

Group Theory

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Applications of Deep Neural Networks

Why do we need neural networks and how do we train them 

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Artificial Neural Networks

How artificial neural networks are trained and used in industry

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Online Counselling Psychology

Psychologist Terry Hanley on the history of distant counselling, the outcomes of the online therapy and the new skills counselors need to develop

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Speed Prior

AI specialist Jürgen Schmidhuber on inductive inference, universal Solomonoff prior and measuring probability of different events

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Gödel Machine

AI specialist Jürgen Schmidhuber on Kurt Gödel, meta learning and fundamental limitations of computability

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When will we run out of fresh water?

Geographer Anson Mackay on the freshwater resources, planetary boundaries and lake Urmia

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Photochemistry

Chemist David Phillips on the electron spin, singlet states and the singlet oxygen

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Causal Hypotheses in Medicine

Professor of Philosophy of Science John Worrall on the difference between correlation and causation, controlled experiments and the placebo effect

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Climate Observations

Meteorologist Chris Brierley on the first measurements of climate, weather forecasts and how can we double check the accuracy of the old climate readings

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Skull Modularity in Evolutionary Morphology

Biologist Arkhat Abzhanov on morphological diversity in birds, Hawaiian honeycreepers and how data on skull modularity can help to treat craniofacial abnormalities in humans