The Royal Society (videos of March 2017)

source: The Royal Society
1:25:40 Wiring up the brain: How axons navigate Ferrier Prize Lecture 2017 given by Professor Christine Holt FMedSci FRS
The brain is made up of billions of nerve cells (neurons) that are wired together by axons and dendrites. The precision of ...
6:42 The chemical biology of mitochondria Mitochondrial biology is now turning out to be important in many disparate areas of biomedical research. Dr Mike Murphy is at the forefront of this research, and organised a scientific discussion m...
1:59:38 Out in STEM 2017 The Royal Society celebrated LGBT History Month with a keynote address by Sir Dermot Turing. Starts 1.42.
The theme for 2017 is Citizenship, PSHE and Law as we mark the 50th anniversary of the par...
1:01:55 Computing for the future of the planet Bakerian Lecture 2017 by Professor Andy Hopper CBE FREng FRS
Digital technology is an indispensable and crucial component of our lives, society, and the physical environment.
A challenge is how ...
1:09:33 Climate change: catastrophe, hoax or just lukewarm? Lecture by Professor Tim Palmer FRS
Views about climate change can be very polarised. For some, it spells inevitable catastrophe. For others it is a massive hoax.
However, in between these extre...
1:01:50 Why we write - the history of science While it might seem that science is firmly in the telling camp and literature in the showing camp, scientific diaries and autobiographies seem to be spaces in which scientists have decided to show ...