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Cigarettes: the most successful product ever - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - April 18, 2013 15:42 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSpring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lec...
Cigarettes: the most successful product ever - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - April 18, 2013 15:42 - 40 minutesDespite five decades of research into the harms of smoking and numerous successful public health campaigns, many people take up and continue with the habit. Cigarette sales remain high as tobacco companies excel at marketing. In the United States, more than $8 billion was spent by the tobacco com...
Stuff Matters - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - April 18, 2013 15:41 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSpring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lec...
Stuff Matters - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - April 18, 2013 15:41 - 39 minutesWhatever people think about the rapid pace of change of technology, our most fundamental categorization of stuff on the planet has not altered: there are living things and there is non-living stuff. As a result of our greater understanding of matter, this distinction is now becoming blurred and i...
Cigarettes: the most successful product ever - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video - April 18, 2013 15:38 - 40 minutesDespite five decades of research into the harms of smoking and numerous successful public health campaigns, many people take up and continue with the habit. Cigarette sales remain high as tobacco companies excel at marketing. In the United States, more than $8 billion was spent by the tobacco com...
Cigarettes: the most successful product ever - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video - April 18, 2013 15:38 - 40 minutesSpring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lec...
Stuff Matters - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video - April 18, 2013 15:19 - 39 minutesWhatever people think about the rapid pace of change of technology, our most fundamental categorization of stuff on the planet has not altered: there are living things and there is non-living stuff. As a result of our greater understanding of matter, this distinction is now becoming blurred and i...
Stuff Matters - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video - April 18, 2013 15:19 - 39 minutesSpring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lec...
Scandinavian crime fiction and the end of the welfare state - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - March 20, 2013 12:13 - 41 minutesScandinavian crime fiction has in recent years enjoyed surprising success world-wide. The region, with its universal welfare states, is most commonly considered a very peaceful place, with low rates of corruption and crime and the highest levels of reported wellbeing in the world. Scandinavian cr...
Scandinavian crime fiction and the end of the welfare state - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - March 20, 2013 12:13 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSpring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lec...
Civil Engineers against the double negative - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - March 20, 2013 12:11 - 39 minutesIs a culture of infallibility holding back our engineers by celebrating the avoidance of failure rather than the achievement of success? Do we really want our engineers to live their lives by the mantra ‘Avoid failure and you too can be a success’? This lecture will offer a wholly upbeat alternat...
Civil Engineers against the double negative - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - March 20, 2013 12:11 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSpring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lec...
Scandinavian crime fiction and the end of the welfare state - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video - March 20, 2013 12:09 - 41 minutesScandinavian crime fiction has in recent years enjoyed surprising success world-wide. The region, with its universal welfare states, is most commonly considered a very peaceful place, with low rates of corruption and crime and the highest levels of reported wellbeing in the world. Scandinavian cr...
Scandinavian crime fiction and the end of the welfare state - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video - March 20, 2013 12:09 - 41 minutesSpring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lec...
Civil Engineers against the double negative - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video - March 20, 2013 11:57 - 39 minutesSpring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lec...
Civil Engineers against the double negative - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video - March 20, 2013 11:57 - 39 minutesIs a culture of infallibility holding back our engineers by celebrating the avoidance of failure rather than the achievement of success? Do we really want our engineers to live their lives by the mantra ‘Avoid failure and you too can be a success’? This lecture will offer a wholly upbeat alternat...
Genomics and Healthcare - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - March 14, 2013 12:15 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSpring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lec...
Genomics and Healthcare - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - March 14, 2013 12:15 - 41 minutesGreater understanding of how genetic differences influence disease susceptibility and drug response has potentially important healthcare applications. This lecture, marking Heart Awareness Month, will focus on some of the opportunities and challenges of using genomic information to improve person...
By the Donzerly Light: when our ears play tricks on us - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - March 14, 2013 12:09 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSpring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lec...
By the Donzerly Light: when our ears play tricks on us - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - March 14, 2013 12:09 - 40 minutesAlmost every song lyric can be misunderstood: famously, Jimi Hendrix’s 'Kiss the Sky' is often heard as 'Kiss This Guy'. Why does this happen? While slips of the tongue are well-known, slips of the ear have received far less attention. Professor Nevins has developed a database of 4000 naturally c...
Genomics and Healthcare - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video - March 14, 2013 11:44 - 41 minutesSpring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lec...
Genomics and Healthcare - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video - March 14, 2013 11:44 - 41 minutesGreater understanding of how genetic differences influence disease susceptibility and drug response has potentially important healthcare applications. This lecture, marking Heart Awareness Month, will focus on some of the opportunities and challenges of using genomic information to improve person...
By the Donzerly Light: when our ears play tricks on us - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video - March 14, 2013 11:30 - 40 minutesAlmost every song lyric can be misunderstood: famously, Jimi Hendrix’s 'Kiss the Sky' is often heard as 'Kiss This Guy'. Why does this happen? While slips of the tongue are well-known, slips of the ear have received far less attention. Professor Nevins has developed a database of 4000 naturally c...
By the Donzerly Light: when our ears play tricks on us - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video - March 14, 2013 11:30 - 40 minutesSpring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lec...
A diet to treat ageing - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - March 01, 2013 13:20 - 40 minutesIt has been known for some time that moderate dietary restriction can extend healthy lifespan in a variety of organisms. By experimenting on fruitflies, we are uncovering that only very small changes in specific nutrients are required for this effect. Importantly, these effects appear to be evolu...
A diet to treat ageing - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - March 01, 2013 13:20 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSpring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lec...
Can the Eurozone crisis be solved? - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - March 01, 2013 13:19 - 41 minutesThere was plenty of scepticism among economists about the likely success of a common currency in Europe. The immediate problem is that peripheral countries have seen their public sectors incur large deficits and incautious private sectors incur large debts. In addition, wages in the Southern econ...
Can the Eurozone crisis be solved? - Audio
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio - March 01, 2013 13:19 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSpring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lec...
A diet to treat ageing - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video - March 01, 2013 13:15 - 40 minutesIt has been known for some time that moderate dietary restriction can extend healthy lifespan in a variety of organisms. By experimenting on fruitflies, we are uncovering that only very small changes in specific nutrients are required for this effect. Importantly, these effects appear to be evolu...
A diet to treat ageing - Video
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Video - March 01, 2013 13:15 - 40 minutesSpring 2013 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lec...
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