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The Ashmolean Collection and the Formation of Ancient Egyptian Art |
Part of the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Professor john Baines gives a talk on the Ashmolean Museum and its collection of ancient Egyptian art. |
John Baines |
02 Nov 2010 |
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How to Prevent Alzheimer's Disease |
Part of the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Dr David Smith gives a talk on how to prevent Alzheimer's disease. |
David Smith |
02 Nov 2010 |
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Therapy for muscular dystrophy in the new genetics era |
From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Duchene Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic muscle wasting disease that causes great suffering to those experiencing it. Dr Kay Davies talks about the advances in molecular genetics which could help treat DMD. |
Kay Davies |
25 Oct 2010 |
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A Florence Nightingale for the 21st Century |
From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Marjorie Reeves Memorial lecture given in St Anne's College. Mark Bostridge, author of the first major biography of Florence Nightingale in 50 years talks about the great woman's life and character. |
Mark Bostridge |
25 Oct 2010 |
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A Florence Nightingale for the 21st Century |
From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Marjorie Reeves Memorial lecture given in St Anne's College. Mark Bostridge, author of the first major biography of Florence Nightingale in 50 years talks about the great woman's life and character. |
Mark Bostridge |
25 Oct 2010 |
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The anatomy of a scientific dispute |
From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Conrad Keating, biographer of Richard Doll, gives a talk on the difficulty scientists have at getting people to believe their results, as Richard Doll had when he published his findings on the dangers of smoking. |
Conrad Keating |
25 Oct 2010 |
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Early Tudor England: A People's Reformation? |
From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. The english Reformation has often been seen as am 'act of state', imposed on the people. How true was that? How soon did the English people buy into the huge success story that was he reformation in northern Europe? |
Diarmaid MacCulloch |
25 Oct 2010 |
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Rocking the Cradle...6,000 Years of Geological Impact in Greece |
From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Phillip England talks about the history of Greece through its many earthquakes and seismic activity over the last 6000 years and shows how these events shaped the ancient world's history. |
Phillip England |
25 Oct 2010 |
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Rocking the Cradle...6,000 Years of Geological Impact in Greece |
From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Phillip England talks about the history of Greece through its many earthquakes and seismic activity over the last 6000 years and shows how these events shaped the ancient world's history. |
Phillip England |
25 Oct 2010 |
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The Future of Humanity |
From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute gives a talk on ideas surrounding future scenarios on what might happen to the human race in the future, from ideas of total extinction to post-humanity. |
Nick Bostrom |
25 Oct 2010 |
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The Hidden History of the Wellcome Collection |
From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Frances Larson gives a talk entitled 'Shared Treasures or Just Bits and Pieces? The Hidden History of the Wellcome Collection. Examining Sir Henry Wellcome's vast hoard of Art and Antiques he collected over his lifetime. |
Frances Larson |
25 Oct 2010 |
