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Biodiverse Objects

Biodiversity on the rocks: joining the dots between animate and inanimate

This podcast explores some of the countless relationships between biology, biodiversity, and geology, past and present.
How Epidemics End
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Nils Chr. Stenseth And Barbara Bramanti On Evolutionary And Ecological Ends Of Epidemics

A discussion on how evolutionary biology and biological anthropology help understand the end of epidemics, particularly plague.
How Epidemics End
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Clark Larsen and Fabian Crespo on Biology, Archaeology, and Multi-disciplinary Ends

A discussion on why multi-disciplinary approaches that combine social and biological research are helpful in understanding how epidemics end.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Height, weight and prostate cancer

Aurora Perez-Cornago (University of Oxford) gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar series on 23 January 2020
Back Garden Biology

The Worm that Turned

The species with the biggest biomass in any garden is almost certainly the earthworm. These humble denizens of our soil provide essential services by turning over soil and promoting plant growth.
Back Garden Biology

Seeing the Wood for the Trees (Part II)

We take a walk around a local park to admire more winter trees and see why conifers win over broadleaved trees as we move further North, but even they have to drop their needles during the winter in the farthest reaches of the Boreal forest.
Back Garden Biology

Seeing the Wood for the Trees

In winter the bones of the trees are laid bare, giving us a chance to see their skeletons. Join Lindsay as she takes a tour round Wytham Woods in Oxford, showing you how to identify our common native trees from their bark and the shape of their branches.
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What is life?

For this year's James Martin Memorial Lecture, Sir Paul Nurse will consider some of the fundamental ideas of biology with the aim of identifying principles that define living organisms.
Back Garden Biology
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Why is the world green?

Lindsay searches for the truth about our verdant green world and tackles a mystery about her rose-bushes: who ate all the greenfly?
Back Garden Biology
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Deceived with ornament

Plants attract pollinators through their colourful flowers but some plants aren't quite what they seem.
Computer Science

Medicine and Physiology in the Age of Dynamics

Medicine and Physiology in the Age of Dynamics: Newton Abraham Lecture 2020
Back Garden Biology
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Sex and the single primrose

In early spring, primroses and cowslips can be found in many gardens and parks. Their yellow flowers are certainly beautiful, but they also hold a secret: they come in two different types that can only mate with each other.
Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures

Small intestinal neuroendocrine tumours - surgery and science in Cambridge

Mr Simon Buczacki presents his clinical and scientific data on small intestinal neuroendocrine tumours.
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Nano comes to life: how nanotechnology is transforming medicine and the future of biology

n this book talk, Professor Sonia Contera will talk about how Nanotechnology is transforming medicine and the future of biology.
CortexCast - A Neuroscience Podcast

At The Interface : Richard Mooney

We discuss Auditory Neuroscience in particular during vocal learning
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Getting to the heart of cardiac disease: a multi-disciplinary effort to image the heart in 3D

Discover how researchers are using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to acquire images that show how the heart works on both a whole organ and cellular level. With Dr Kerstin Timm and Dr Justin Lau.
CortexCast - A Neuroscience Podcast

At First Sight - Holly Bridge

We discuss how the Brain processes vision.
CortexCast - A Neuroscience Podcast

Sleeping with One Eye Open - Vladyslav Vyazovskiy

We discuss the Science of Sleep
CortexCast - A Neuroscience Podcast

Intro : Cortex Just Keeps the Rest of the Brain Warm

We talk through what listeners can expect from future episodes of CortexCast.
Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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Why the world is simple - Prof Ard Louis

The coding theorem from algorithmic information theory (AIT) - which should be much more widely taught in Physics! - suggests that many processes in nature may be highly biased towards simple outputs.

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