101 |
Creative Commons |
Status Quo Bias |
Suppose a genetic engineering breakthrough made it simple, safe and cheap to increase people's intelligence. |
Nick Bostrom |
01 Aug 2011 |
102 |
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Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Oxford's 'Two Bodies' in Medical Anthropology |
This presentation by Dr Caroline Potter (ISCA, Oxford) focuses on how Oxford's Medicial Anthropology bridges the biological and social divide. It was delivered at the 10 Years at the Intersections conference in June 2011. |
Caroline Potter |
25 Jul 2011 |
103 |
Creative Commons |
Designer Babies |
The term 'designer baby' is usually used in a pejorative sense - to conjure up some dystopian Brave New World. There are already ways to affect what kind of children you have - most obviously by choosing the partner to have them with. |
Julian Savulescu |
31 May 2011 |
104 |
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Systems Science and Inequalities in Obesity in England - Findings from an Agent-Based Model |
Abdulrahman El-Sayid, DPhil Student, British Heart Foundation, Oxford, gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series. |
Abdulrahman El-Sayid |
27 May 2011 |
105 |
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Fizzyology: genetics, metabolic effects health outcomes and politics of high sugar |
Michael Goran gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series. |
Michael Goran |
06 Apr 2011 |
106 |
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The phenomenology of binge eating in anorexia and bulimia |
Karin Eli, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Karin Eli |
06 Apr 2011 |
107 |
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Digital image capture in public health surveillance for physical activity and food behaviour assessment |
Paul Kelly and Aiden Doherty give a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Paul Kelly, Aiden Doherty |
06 Apr 2011 |
108 |
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Affective hunger: bread and famine in ethiopian christian spirituality |
Cressida Marcus gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series. |
Cressida Marcus |
06 Apr 2011 |
109 |
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Why do we dislike obese people? |
Kerry O'Brien, Senior lecturer, University of Manchester and Monash University, gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series. |
Kerry O'Brien |
06 Apr 2011 |
110 |
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Insights into the Development of Wellbeing in the Very Long Run |
Nikola Koepke gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series entitled: Insights into the Development of Wellbeing in the Very Long Run: Status of Pe-Historic and Historic Europe. |
Nikola Koepke |
27 Jul 2010 |
111 |
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Sleep in the Global 24/7 Society |
Professor Foster gives a talk on some of the causes and consequences of sleep disruption and explores how our increasingly sleep deprived society is have unanticipated consequences for out physical and mental health. |
Russell Foster |
24 Aug 2009 |
112 |
Creative Commons |
Pheromones: what animals (including humans) say with smell |
Tristram Wyatt gives a talk on 'The Science of Smell' - Pheromones, outlining their discovery, their chemistry and how animals (and humans) interact through smell. Part of the 2008 Oxford Alumni Weekend. |
Tristram Wyatt |
23 Jun 2009 |
113 |
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The Kadoorie Study in China |
Zhengming Chen, Professor of Epidemiology, gives a talk on the Kadoorie Biobank study, a joint Chinese and British study looking at the lifestyles of 500,000 people and presents some of the findings that can be used to influence public health policy. |
Zhengming Chen |
29 Apr 2009 |