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Emotional Intelligence
Feb 21st
Shungu Mgadzah
Is emotional intelligence just a fashionable idea, or does it hold the key to much of our behaviour?
Genetic Controversy
May 9th
Professor Gabriel Dover (Leicester)
Another opponent of Richard Dawkins, Gabriel Dover champions a theory of 'molecular drive' to explain evolution and human behaviour.
Illegal Drugs: A Problem for Science
May 30th
Dr Russell Newcombe
Russell Newcome researches the subjective experiences with drugs along with the objective description. Because it is very difficult to do research into drugs which are classified as illegal, we have he anomalous situation where increasing numbers of people use drugs but little is known about them.
Can Machines Imagine?
Jul 11th
Professor Igor Aleksander (Imp)
He has been researching AI for twenty years and is convinced that we can build conscious machines.
Female Promiscuity
Oct 3rd
Professor Tim Birkhead (Sheffield)
A challenge to the traditional idea that females have an evolutionary advantage in not being promiscuous. Is this new science or just cultural ideas imported into science?
Why Neuroscience will never explain the Mind
Nov 7th
Professor Richard Taliss (Manchester)
Will the mind be completely mapped, so that our emotions and thought can be manipulated? Richard Taliss does not believe the workings of the mind are accessible to brain science.
Science and Society
Science and Democracy
Mar 20th
Professor Norman Levitt (Ruttgers)
Is there a conflict between the authority of science and the principles of democracy? Norman Lecvitt thinks that science is so important it needs to be shielded fromo the 'ill informed crusade to memocratise science'.
Science and the Public
Mar 21st
Professor Brian Wynne (Lancaster)
Until recently it has been assumed that the public is to blame for not understanding science. This is the so-called 'deficit' model. But what is it exactly that the public doesn't understand? Perhaps what is needed is a two-way model for interaction between science and the public.
Science and the Press
Mar 22nd
Dr Phil Campbell (Nature)
As the editor of Nature, Phil Campbell has one foot in the world of science and the other in the world of the press. How does he reconcile the need for accuracy and authority in science with the need for 'good stories' in the press?
Wellcome to the Future
Mar 23rd
Dr Barbara Skene (Wellcome)
The Wellcome Trust is now financing the controversial Human Genome Data Bank for the UK. Who decides the priorities and how open and accountable is it in the age of genetics and bioethics?
Science and Ethics
Mar 24th
Dr Naomi Pfeffer
We are all consumers of medicine, but how much do we need to know about medical research and what power do we have to change what we don't like? Naomi Pfeffer is the founder of Consumers for Ethical Research, a group campaigning for more active participation by the public in decisions about medical research.
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