Royal Institution Christmas conferences
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It’s the Oldest Rule in the Book
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future-Machines that See?
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient…
3. A Prodigious Leap?
4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four?
6. What’s the idea of shooting at us?
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren’t Coloured!
6. Vision of the Future
2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It’s my own Invention
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last
with Max Perutz in Lecture 5
2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far?
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense – and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Long live the difference
6. Enchanted Loom
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings?
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Semiconductors, superconductors and catalysts
4. Constructing a laser
5. Applications of lasers
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules
2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti-Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind’s I
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, Robot
2. How do I grow?
3. What am I?
4. Can we fix it?
5. Future of life?
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There?
2. Ice Life
3. Ice World
2. Yuck or yummy?
3. You are what you eat
4. When food goes wrong
5. Food for the future
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don’t
3. Why Mountains Are So Small
2. Who’s in charge here anyway?
3. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher’s stone
2. Am I a Mutant?
3. Could I live forever?
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution
2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier
2. People Power
3. Fully charged
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word
Aoife McLysaght
2. What Makes Me Human?
3. What Makes Me, Me?
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?
Helen Czerski
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