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The Ritual Effect – The Transformative Power of Our Everyday Actions

Posted July 2024

How Your Brain Really Works – The Leading Theories

Posted Jul 2024

Influence – How to Understand it, Use it, and Resist it

Posted Jul 2024

When the Wild Things Returned

Posted Jun 2024

J. Craig Venter – The Future of Life

Posted February 2024

How Life Works – A User’s Guide to the New Biology

Posted February 2024

How to Calm Your Mind With Food

Posted January 2024

Do We Have Free Will?

posted December 2023

Why Rational People Believe Irrational Things

Posted November 2023

The New Science of Regenerative Medicine

Posted November 2023

Chris Hadfield Meets Robin Ince

Posted October 2023

David Nutt – How Psychedelics Can Change Your Life

Posted August 2023

How the Mind Changed – A Neuroscientist’s Guide to Our Evolving Brain

Posted July 2023

How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

Posted July 2023

A Practical Guide to Living Your Best Midlife

Posted June 2023

Why the Pursuit of Perfection is Bad for Your Health

Posted June 2023

Noam Chomsky Meets Lawrence Krauss

Posted May 2023

What Animal Minds Reveals About Human Intelligence

Posted March 2023

In Search of the Secret to Happiness

Posted February 2023

The Neuroscience of Strengthening Your Memory

Posted February 2023

A Neuroscientist’s Guide To Creating Healthy Habits

Posted January 2023

Attention Span – How to Find Focus for a Fulfilling Life

Posted January 2023

Sentience – The Invention of Consciousness

Posted December 2022

The New Human and the Future of Medicine - Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee

November 2022

How to Manage and Treat Long Covid

Posted October 2022

Richard Dawkins Meets Steven Pinker

Posted October 2022

The Genetic Age

Posted September 2022

How the Metaverse Will Revolutionise Everything

Posted July 2022

Don’t Trust Your Gut

Posted July 2022

Nature’s Secrets to Longevity

Posted July 2022

How to Save the Oceans

Posted June 2022

Bill Gates – How To Prevent the Next Pandemic

Posted May 2022

The Hidden Hand of Nature

Posted May 2022

Twelve Experiments That Changed Our World

Posted May 2022

The Story of Life on Earth

Posted April 2022

How Ideas Change the World

Posted April 2022

The Full Diet

Posted April 2022

A New Global History of Science

Posted March 2022

The Story of Depression and How We Treat It

Posted March 2022

Suzanne Simard - How to Uncover the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest

Posted March 2022

A Journey to the Edge of the Universe

A Beginner’s Guide to Abstract Maths

Posted February 2022

David Nutt - The New Science of Cannabis

Posted February 2022

Dr Megan Rossi – Eat More, Live Well

Posted January 2021

An Audience With David Nabarro, WHO Director General Special Envoy on COVID-19

Posted December 2021

Inventing Humanity’s Interplanetary Future

Posted December 2021

John Cleese Meets Iain McGilchrist

Posted November 2021

How to Prevent and Reverse Dementia

Posted November 2021

The Genetic Lottery

Posted November 2021

Fatima Bhutto Meets Noam Chomsky

Posted October 2021

Life As We Made It

Posted October 2021

Steven Pinker – Why Rationality Matters

Posted October 2021

Jane Goodall - A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet

Posted October 2021

Making Sense of Game Theory

Posted October 2021

Sir David Spiegelhalter - COVID By Numbers

Posted October 2021

Marcus du Sautoy – The Art of the Shortcut

Posted September 2021

How Fungi Make Our Worlds

Posted September 2021

Michael Pollan – The Mind-Altering Power of Plants

Posted July 2021

The Inside Story of the Oxford Vaccine

Posted July 2021

The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything

Posted June 2021

The 42nd Anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Celebration

Posted April 2021

The Mavericks Who Brought AI to the World

Posted April 2021

On the Frontline of the COVID Crisis

Posted April 2021

Inside The Cyber Weapons Arms Race

Posted April 2021

Michio Kaku – The God Equation

Posted April 2021

A New Story of Our Human Origins

Posted March 2021

On Drugs and Addiction – Will Self Meets David Nutt

Posted February 2021

Bill Gates – How To Avoid a Climate Disaster

Posted February 2021

Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb - The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

Posted February 2021

Professor Robert Sapolsky - the Biology of Human Beings at Our Best and Worst

Posted February 2021

How To Design and Lead an Active Life

Posted January 2021

Why We Eat Too Much

Posted January 2021

How to Get Older Without Getting Old

Posted January 2021

The Janus Point - a New Story of the Destiny of Our Universe

Posted December 2020

How to Survive Falling Into a Black Hole

Posted December 2020

The Pattern Seekers - A New Theory of Human Invention

Posted November 2020

Richard Dawkins on the Meaning of Life

Posted November 2020

An Evening With Yuval Noah Harari

Posted November 2020

How To Live With Dementia and Alzheimer’s – a Guide for Families, Carers and People With Dementia

Posted November 2020

What Is Life? A Journey Through The Wonder of Existence With Sir Paul Nurse

Posted November 2020

How to Talk to Robots - A Girl’s Guide To A Future Dominated by AI

Posted October 2020

The Ten Equations That Rule The World - And How You Can Use Them Too

Posted October 2020

The Making of the Planet, Life, and You

Posted October 2020

Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food Is Wrong

Posted October 2020

How to Live Longer (with the help of AI) - a Panel of Experts Predict and Advise

Posted October 2020

Reality and Dreams - Why Ancient Wisdom Matters

Posted October 2020

Neanderthals - Life, Love, and Death in a Lost World - With Brian Cox

Posted September 2020

How to Understand Eating Disorders – An Insider’s Perspective

Posted September 2020

Livewired - The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

Posted August 2020

Wild places and the rhythms of nature with Nick Offerman

Posted September 2020

A Tour of the Dark Side of Human Nature With Malcolm Gladwell

Posted August 2020

A 21 Day Plan to Reduce The Risk of Severe Effects From COVID-19

Posted August 2020

The Life and Work of Stephen Hawking; from his Friend and Collaborator

Posted August 2020

The Real Science of Exercise - Harvard Professor Daniel Lieberman Debunks Fitness Myths

Posted August 2020

The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines

Posted August 2020

The Sirens of Mars – An Astrobiologist’s Search For Life on Another World

Posted August 2020

How Will The Universe End? A Trip To The Edge of the Cosmos

Posted August 2020

Your Life In My Hands – Brain Surgeon Henry Marsh on His Life’s Work

Posted August 2020

Nature Knows Everything – A New Vision of Community and the Future

Posted August 2020

At Home With Professor Lord Robert Winston – A Life In Science

Posted August 2020

The New Science of CBD and Medical Cannabis – What You Need to Know

Posted August 2020

The Divided Brain and the Search For Meaning – Insights From the Cutting Edge of Neuroscience

Posted August 2020

Curing the Loneliness Epidemic with the Former US Surgeon General

Posted August 2020

Too Much Information – How To Know What You Don’t Need To Know

Posted August 2020

The Mathematics of Contagion | A Physicist’s Perspective on COVID-19

Posted August 2020

How The New Space Race Will Save Planet Earth

Posted August 2020

Rewilding the Knepp Estate – a Daring Experiment To Let Nature Flourish

Posted August 2020

Lord Rees On The Future of Humanity: From Climate Change to Space Travel

Posted December 2019

Jane Goodall on Humans and Animals

Posted December 2018

Why Roger Federer Sleeps Twelve Hours a Day

Posted June 2019

The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

Posted June 2019

How to Solve Sleep Anxiety

Posted June 2019

Are Enlightenment Values Under Threat?

Posted February 2018