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After the End

After the End Episode 5: Time, Mortality, and the Immortal Jellyfish

In this episode of the podcast series After the End, Patricia Kingori, Miranda Lowe, Felix Flicker and Martin O'Brien come together for a discussion on time, mortality and immortality.
After the End

After the End Episode 4: Living in Zombie Time – Martin O’Brien

What is it like to live in Zombie Time? Performance artist Martin O’Brien opens the conversation on living beyond predicted life expectancy in what he calls ‘zombie time’.
After the End

After the End Episode 3: Does Time Exist – Felix Flicker

Does time exist? Theoretical physicist Felix Flicker from the University of Bristol explores whether time exists and living after the end of the universe.
After the End

After the End Episode 2: The Immortal Jellyfish – Miranda Lowe

The Jellyfish that refuse to die. MIRANDA LOWE CBE, a principal curator in the Department of Life Sciences at the NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM in LONDON, introduces us to the extraordinary world of the immortal jellyfish.
After the End

After the End Podcast Introduction – Patricia Kingori

Who decides when it’s over? In this episode of the podcast series After the End, Professor Patricia Kingori introduces the project and sets the stage for what’s to come.
Oxford Kafka24
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Hunger Artistry: Kafka and the Art of Starvation

Kafka’s provocative story “The Hunger Artist” explores starvation, art, and the nature of human existence. Experts discuss the story and its reception.
Conversations on Kafka
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J. M. Coetzee and Kafka

Nobel-prize winning author J. M. Coetzee has continued to reflect on and respond to Kafka in different ways throughout his life and work.
Linguamania

How do metaphors shape our world?

We tend to think of metaphors as poetic language, but we actually use them all the time in our everyday speech. But how do metaphors in different languages work? And can the metaphors we use affect our thinking?
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"Origins" - Complete Episode

The subject of origins is explored - from human fertilisation to the Big Bang. Includes parts 1, 2 and 3.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"Origins" Part 2 - Origins of Earth and the Solar System

Professor Alex Halliday explains how planets form from nothing but an area of space full of dust. Tiny differences between the elements that make up meteorites can give you an idea of how old they are and which part of the solar system they came from.
Oxford Physics Public Lectures

Physics and Philosophy: An Introduction

On the inextricable links between physics and philosophy and the ways in which one can lead to the other - how they complement each other in answering the big questions.
Oxford Physics Public Lectures

Space and Time

Prof. Frank Arntzenius on whether space and time are absolute entities or simply relational properties derived from the idea of motion - an old debate between Newton and Leibniz, carried on today.
Oxford Physics Public Lectures

Parallel Worlds

Dr. David Wallace on the many-worlds theory, an explanation of the baffling results that quantum mechanics provides us with - and that there may be more worlds than just our own.
The History of Science Museum

Decimalising Time: Calendar and Clocks in the French Revolution

Dr Matthew Shaw, British Library, talks about the extraordinary revisions of time measurement adopted in the French Revolution.
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

Delete!

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger looks at the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget.
Keble College

Delete!

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger looks at the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget.
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

When the Audience Clicks: Buying Attention in the Digital Age

Discussion of media buying and the attention-creation industry - showing how the fixation on audiences' click-like behaviour is a disruptive institutional force, and how buyers' new approaches to attention are creating new forms of social discrimination.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The Early Universe and Alzheimer's

Pedro discusses the Big Bang and the early Universe, and Jonathan details Oxford's groundbreaking research of the genetics of Alzheimer's.
Inside Oxford Science

The Early Universe and Alzheimer's

Pedro discusses the Big Bang and the early Universe, and Jonathan details Oxford's groundbreaking research of the genetics of Alzheimer's.

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