String theory and the end of space and time

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Robbert Dijkgraaf

String theory and the end of space and time

What is string theory? What happens to stuff that falls inside a black hole? What are the fundamental building blocks of space and time? Did Nature have any choice in picking the fundamental laws of physics? What is the role of mathematics in physics?

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| Copenhagen | March 14, 2023

Why do we get the wrong leaders?

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| Copenhagen | October 30, 2021

Maps of the invisible: revealing hidden patterns on planet Earth

James Cheshire -

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| Copenhagen | October 22, 2021

Black hole survival guide

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| Copenhagen | September 25, 2021

Making a murderer: dissecting the roots of violence

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| Copenhagen | August 12, 2021

What is Infinity? And is it real?

Edward Frenkel -

Estrogen brains

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| Copenhagen | July 4, 2021

Female sex hormones

Vibe Frøkjær -

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| Copenhagen | June 26, 2021

The enigmatic self: from buddhism to neuroscience

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Podcast

The Pill

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Podcast

CRISPR - a tool for human genome modification and so much more

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Interview

Negative effects of digital media

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Podcast

Quantum Computers on the rise and the end of human disasters

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| Brussels | October 5, 2020

Viral Outbreaks

Emmanuel André -

Unraveling the History of the Milky Way

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| Amsterdam | September 28, 2020

Archeology with stars

Virus Outbreaks in a Changing World

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| Amsterdam | June 24, 2020

Virus Outbreaks in a Changing World

Marion Koopmans -

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| Brussels | June 23, 2020

Melting Ice

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| Brussels | May 5, 2020

The evolution within us: statistics of immunity

Aleksandra Walczak -

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| Brussels | February 25, 2020

New breeding technologies for a climate resilient and eco-friendly agriculture

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| Copenhagen | February 25, 2020

Our immune system: new tools to eradicate cancer

Sine Reker Hadrup -

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| Copenhagen | February 8, 2020

The science of laughter

In search of what makes us musical

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| Amsterdam | December 18, 2019

The evolving animal orchestra

Henkjan Honing -

How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

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| Amsterdam | December 10, 2019

How the urban jungle drives evolution

Menno Schilthuizen -

Extra Terrestrial

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| Brussels | November 27, 2019

The human response to extraterrestrial life

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| Copenhagen | November 23, 2019

Science, gender and the brain how gender stereotypes can create gender gaps

The End of the Dinosaurs

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| Amsterdam | November 19, 2019

The end of the dinosaurs

Eradicate Cancer

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| Brussels | October 30, 2019

New ways to eradicate cancer

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| Amsterdam | October 6, 2019

The first image of a black hole

Sera Markoff - Feryal Özel - Heino Falcke -

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| Copenhagen | October 5, 2019

The first image of a black hole

Dementia Before we Forget

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| Amsterdam | September 24, 2019

Before we forget: Early dementia diagnosis and treatment

Charlotte Teunissen -

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| Brussels | September 9, 2019

The creativity code

Marcus du Sautoy -

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Talk
| Brussels | July 13, 2019

String Theory and the End of Space and Time

Robbert Dijkgraaf -

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| Brussels | July 13, 2019

Strings 2019 concert

Benjamin Glorieux and guests -

Talk
| Amsterdam | July 1, 2019

Becoming Dad: The Science of Fatherhood

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| Brussels | June 18, 2019

La compréhension de l’Univers

François Englert -

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| Copenhagen | May 25, 2019

Sex (and more) on Six Legs

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| Copenhagen | May 18, 2019

The smartphone epidemic Risks and Side Effects of Digital Media Use

Manfred Spitzer -

Wanderings of the Young Brain

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| Amsterdam | May 6, 2019

Wanderings of the Young Brain

Eveline Crone -

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| Copenhagen | April 27, 2019

The Many Worlds of Quantum Reality

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| Copenhagen | April 23, 2019

Panel Debate: The State of the Climate

Kirsten Halsnæs - Jørgen Eivind Olesen - Katherine Richardson - Jens Hesselbjerg - Catherine Jex - Jais Baggestrøm Koch -

Artificial Intelligence Opportunity or Threat

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| Amsterdam | April 8, 2019

Artificial Intelligence, Opportunity or Threat?

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| Copenhagen | March 30, 2019

Does Media affect how we see the world?

Johanna Blakley -

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| Copenhagen | March 19, 2019

The History of Everything: Why do we need a Modern Origin Story?

David Christian -

The added risk of size nanomaterials nanoparticles

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| Amsterdam | March 4, 2019

The added risk of size: nanomaterials and nanoparticles

Martina Vijver -

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| Brussels | February 27, 2019

Stem Cells

Cédric Blanpain -

Black Holes Gravity and the Edge of the Universe

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| Amsterdam | February 4, 2019

Black Holes, Gravity and the Edge of the Universe

Erik Verlinde -

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| Brussels | January 28, 2019

Your 100 trillion inhabitants

The Simplicity of Complexity

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| Amsterdam | December 11, 2018

The Simplicity of Complexity

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| Brussels | December 4, 2018

Anthropocene and its victims

François Gemenne -

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| Copenhagen | November 24, 2018

How to see Black Holes

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| Brussels | November 21, 2018

Destination MARS

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| Amsterdam | November 20, 2018

The collective motion of flocks of birds

Charlotte Hemelrijk -

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| Copenhagen | November 15, 2018

New Materials for a New Age

Nicola Spaldin -

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| Copenhagen | November 8, 2018

The farm effect: preventing allergies and asthma

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| Amsterdam | October 30, 2018

Building stars, planets and the ingredients for life in space

Ewine F. van Dishoeck -

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| Copenhagen | October 26, 2018

Consciousness, perception, and controlled hallucinations

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| Brussels | October 23, 2018

Brains and complexity: the emergence of consciousness

Axel Cleeremans -

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| Copenhagen | October 9, 2018

Plan(t)s for the future: From mustard seeds to broccoli

Barbara Ann Halkier -

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| Copenhagen | October 6, 2018

Universe or Multiverse? To the Edge of Time with Stephen Hawking

Thomas Hertog -

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| Johannesburg | September 18, 2018

The land issue in South Africa

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| Amsterdam | September 3, 2018

String Theory and the End of Space and Time

Robbert Dijkgraaf -

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| Copenhagen | June 6, 2018

How an enlightened approach to "illegal" drugs will revolutionize medicine and science

David Nutt - Johnson/Pasborg Lo-Fi Organ Co. -

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| Brussels | May 30, 2018

Universe or Multiverse?

Thomas Hertog -

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| Copenhagen | May 26, 2018

Post-truth under the lens of Science

Walter Quattrociocchi -

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| Copenhagen | May 22, 2018

Are low-pollution electricity, markets, and reliability compatible?

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| Copenhagen | May 8, 2018

Can we create music with Artificial Intelligence? Is Music the Most Interesting Problem for Artificial Intelligence?

François Pachet -

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| Copenhagen | April 26, 2018

Seeing the past in High Definition at urban sites in the Middle East. The case of ancient Gerasa (Jerash) in Jordan.

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| Copenhagen | April 24, 2018

Approaching the quantum world of colourful plasmonic nanoparticles

N. Asger Mortensen -

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| Johannesburg | April 24, 2018

Exploring the cosmos with a giant radio telescope

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| Johannesburg | March 27, 2018

The puzzle of the Universe

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| Brussels | March 27, 2018

Big brother is driving you

Hugues Bersini -

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| Copenhagen | March 22, 2018

Origins: Planets to Galaxies Research from the forefront of the ALMA telescope array

Stuartt Corder -

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| Copenhagen | March 13, 2018

Earth observation through animals

Martin Wikelski -

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| Johannesburg | February 27, 2018

Seals and killers in the roaring forties

Nico de Bruyn -

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| Brussels | February 7, 2018

Seeing with new eyes: Gravitational waves

Laura Cadonati -

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| Brussels | December 13, 2017

Is your data private?

Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye -

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| Johannesburg | November 28, 2017

Can we move beyond the divided city?

Edgar Pieterse -

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| Copenhagen | November 25, 2017

Secrets and lies: The psychology of conspiracy theories

Karen Douglas -

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| Copenhagen | November 21, 2017

Looking at yesterday's yeasts to brew tomorrow's beer

Kevin Verstrepen -

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| Copenhagen | November 7, 2017

Pain, pleasure and the science of love

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| Brussels | November 1, 2017

Looking for consciousness

Steven Laureys -

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| Johannesburg | October 31, 2017

Ghost Imaging

Andrew Forbes -

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| Copenhagen | October 24, 2017

Greenlandic Rock Flour: from stones to bread

Andreas de Neergaard - Minik Rosing -

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| Copenhagen | October 7, 2017

Will to Fight: Facing the Islamic State Revolution The Spiritual Dimension of Human Conflict

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| Brussels | October 4, 2017

The quest for new habitable worlds

Emmanuël Jehin -

Genome Engineering

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| Johannesburg | July 25, 2017

Genome engineering and stem cells

Janine Scholefield -

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| Copenhagen | June 29, 2017

Cosmic connections: the Universe and You

Lawrence Krauss -

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| Johannesburg | June 27, 2017

South African plants for human health

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| Copenhagen | May 23, 2017

When will we find the aliens?

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| Copenhagen | May 20, 2017

Animal emotions and empathy

Frans de Waal -

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| Copenhagen | May 16, 2017

The rise of populism: from Le Pen to Trump

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| Johannesburg | April 25, 2017

Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening?

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| Copenhagen | April 25, 2017

Citizen science: playing games and the fate of humanity

Fastpoholmen Duo! -

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| Copenhagen | March 28, 2017

Stem cells and their awareness of future self what do they need to make bodies and organs in a dish?

Anne Grapin-Botton - Joshua Brickman -

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| Johannesburg | March 28, 2017

Is the world a hologram?

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| Copenhagen | March 23, 2017

Colliding black holes, gravitational waves, and convulsions in space and time: the dawn of a new astronomy

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| Copenhagen | March 18, 2017

Are all your worries about Artificial Intelligence wrong?

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| Copenhagen | March 14, 2017

Human Organs-on-Chips as replacements for animal testing

Donald Ingber -

Chemistry Of Love

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| Johannesburg | January 31, 2017

The chemistry of love

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| Johannesburg | February 28, 2017

Big data for Africa

Bhekisipho Twala -

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| Johannesburg | November 29, 2016

Size matters! Giant dinosaurs and their African origins

Jonah Choiniere -

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| Copenhagen | November 26, 2016

Sensing Sex stimulating and signaling sexual arousal

Heather Hoffmann -

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| Copenhagen | November 22, 2016

Fusion: the ultimate source of clean energy?

Thomas Sunn Pedersen -

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| Copenhagen | November 8, 2016

Involuntary autobiographical memories an introduction to the unbidden past

Dorthe Berntsen -

Monster Black Holes

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| Johannesburg | November 1, 2016

Monster black holes at the edge of the universe

Zoltán Haiman -

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| Copenhagen | October 25, 2016

Networks are everywhere

Albert-László Barabási -

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| Johannesburg | October 25, 2016

Are cities making us sick?

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| Copenhagen | October 11, 2016

The Refugee Crisis facts, myths, numbers and solutions

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen -

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| Copenhagen | October 8, 2016

Faster than forecast the story ice tells about abrupt anthropocene climate change

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| Johannesburg | September 27, 2016

Fire as a living process

Sally Archibald -

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| Johannesburg | July 26, 2016

The physics of information: From flipping coins to quantum gravity

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| Copenhagen | July 3, 2016

Neuroscience and the visual arts: Two approaches to the same problem?

Science Consciousness

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| Copenhagen | July 2, 2016

Can science explain consciousness? Lessons from coma and related states

Steven Laureys - Søvnterapeuterne -

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| Johannesburg | June 28, 2016

Gender and sexual diversity

MIchael Pepper -

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| Copenhagen | June 7, 2016

Dark matter and the Dinosaurs

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| Johannesburg | May 31, 2016

Microbes in hot and cold deserts

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| Copenhagen | May 24, 2016

Thinking about thinking about thinking

Rineke Verbrugge -

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| Copenhagen | May 10, 2016

This is your brain in space

Rachael Seidler -

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| Copenhagen | May 7, 2016

Twins reared apart from birth: the science behind the fascination

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| Copenhagen | April 26, 2016

Active life in the deep oceans

Imants (Monty) Priede -

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| Johannesburg | April 26, 2016

Observing the cosmos from above the clouds

Hsin Cynthia Chiang -

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| Copenhagen | April 16, 2016

You thought your communication was secure? Quantum computers are coming!

Daniel J. Bernstein - Tanja Lange -

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| Copenhagen | April 12, 2016

Wild plants, sex and money at the end of the world

Carsten Smith-Hall -

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| Copenhagen | March 29, 2016

Your inner ape: how to deal with an extended evolutionary family

Peter Kjærgaard -

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| Johannesburg | March 29, 2016

The atoms of spacetime

Vishnu Jejjala -

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| Copenhagen | March 12, 2016

The rise and fall of Teotihuacan: America’s first metropolis

David Carballo -

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| Copenhagen | March 8, 2016

Why do we have music? Music in the brain

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| Johannesburg | February 23, 2016

Eyes and their owners: Why beauty is in the eye of the beholder

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| Copenhagen | November 24, 2015

The Science of Interstellar: an Illustration of a Century of Relativity

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| Johannesburg | November 24, 2015

The power of light in the palm of your hand

Andrew Forbes -

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| Copenhagen | November 17, 2015

Are we running out of water? The climate change threat to human civilisation

Jens Christian Refsgaard -

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| Copenhagen | November 3, 2015

Out-of-body experiences and multisensory brain mechanisms of self-consciousness and visual consciousness

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| Johannesburg | October 27, 2015

Route to roots: understanding human origins

Himla Soodyall - Peter Sklair Quartet -

Unseeable Biology

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| Copenhagen | October 20, 2015

Neutrons, X-rays and shooting the unseeable biology

Artificial Life

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| Copenhagen | October 6, 2015

How to be a creationist: the evolutionary genesis engine and artificial life

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| Johannesburg | September 22, 2015

You can roll it, but I wouldn't smoke it!

Marcus Byrne - Paul Hanmer Quartet -

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| Johannesburg | August 25, 2015

The ultimate challenge: an AIDS vaccine

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| Johannesburg | July 28, 2015

Space and time, light and gravity

Robert de Mello Koch -

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| Johannesburg | January 26, 2016

Whodunnit? Unscrambling the human effect from natural climate variability

Bob Scholes - Mary Scholes -

Mathematics Cocktail

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| Copenhagen | June 25, 2014

Cocktail of mathematics

Cedric Villani -

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| Copenhagen | April 8, 2014

Chaos and complexity in nature

Mogens Jensen -

Insect Societies

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| Copenhagen | March 11, 2014

Insect societies, how weird are they?

Jacobus Boomsma -

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| Copenhagen | March 1, 2014

Cannabis: pleasure, madness & medicine

Valerie Curran -

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| Copenhagen | December 7, 2013

Robots - coming to stay

Henrik Schärfe -

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| Copenhagen | December 3, 2013

The Science of Sleep

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| Copenhagen | June 18, 2010

Cosmic Dust

Anja C. Andersen -

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| Copenhagen | June 2, 2010

Hunting the molecular past

Eske Willerslev -

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| Copenhagen | May 5, 2010

The quest for a fundamental theory of Nature

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| Copenhagen | April 21, 2010

Global warming: scientific basis

Peter Ditlevsen -

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| Copenhagen | April 7, 2010

CERN and the Anti-Miracle

Holger Bech Nielsen -