Astronomer, physicist and the first director of the Jodrell Bank Experimental Observatory Professor Bernard Lovell explores the continuous creation theory of the universe in the final lecture of his Reith Lectures series ‘The Individual and the Universe’.
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Reith Lectures — Bernard Lovell: The Individual and the Universe, Part 2, 1958
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Reith Lectures — Bernard Lovell: The Individual and the Universe, Part 1, 1958
Astronomer, physicist and the first director of the Jodrell Bank Experimental Observatory Professor Bernard Lovell contemplates the implications of evolutionary theory in the fifth lecture in his Reith Lectures series ‘The Individual and the Universe’.
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Reith Lectures Archive: 1996 5. The World Wide Web
Professor Jean Aitchison delivers her fifth and final Reith Lecture from her series entitled ‘The Language Web’. She looks at the possibilities and the pitfalls of the way we use language, and how it can shape as well as distort our view of the world.
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Reith Lectures Archive: 1996 4. A Web Of Words
Professor Jean Aitchison delivers her fourth Reith Lecture from her series entitled ‘The Language Web’. She examines the word-learning ability inbuilt in humans, and explains how we manage to recall words at speed when we need them.
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Reith Lectures Archive: 1996 3. Building the Web
Professor Jean Aitchison delivers her third Reith Lecture from her series entitled ‘The Language Web’. She examines the predictable way in which the language web develops in children and how adults can help, and sometimes slow down, a child’s progress.
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Reith Lectures Archive: 1996 2. A Web Of Deceit
rofessor Jean Aitchison delivers her second Reith Lecture from her series entitled ‘The Language Web’. She examines the origin of language in the human species and explains how a fresh look at the role of language has led to new ideas about how it started.
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Reith Lectures Archive: 1996 1. A Web Of Worries
Professor Jean Aitchison delivers her first Reith Lecture from her series entitled ‘The Language Web’. She explores whether our language really is in decay and argues that we need to understand language, not try to control it.
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Reith Lectures Archive: 1953 6. The Sciences and Man’s Community
Professor Robert Oppenheimer explains how human communities resemble atoms in the final Reith Lecture from his series ‘Science and the Common Understanding’.
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Reith: Lecture 1 The Scientific Citizen
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, explores the challenges facing science in the 21st century. After the confusion caused by Iceland’s volcanic ash cloud and public health scares like swine flu, Professor Rees says scientists should get more involved in public debate. He calls on scientists from every field to engage more widely with government, the media and ordinary people. Only then can the science that affects us all be understood.
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