Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 15: Who enjoys shopping in IKEA?
Professor Alan Penn will describe the way that architects use space to sell you things. He shows how space creates patterns of movement and this brings you in contact with goods. In IKEA though, the story gets more interesting, here the designers deliberately set out to confuse you and in this way draw you into buying things that were not on your shopping list.
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10/3/2023
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 14: Building scientific models with computers
Model building is one of the oldest scientific activities and is essential for allowing us to understand the complex reality of nature. Modern computers have allowed scientists to develop models of unprecedented accuracy and detail, and this lecture will explore and illustrate some aspects of the contemporary field, using examples ranging from cosmology and geosciences to engineering and materials sciences. The power of modern visualisation techniques will also be illustrated.
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10/2/2023
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 13: Stabilising the global population: Where next for the Millennium Development Goals for health and nutrition?
In many poor countries the Millennium Development Goals for improvements in nutrition and health, especially of mothers and children, will not be met by the target date of 2015. This talk will review progress towards these targets and consider critical obstacles to success. New strategies will be considered to improve nutrition and to accelerate reductions in death and fertility rates so that the global population will be stabilised by mid-century.
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9/29/2023
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 12: Lisbon, 1939-45: the untold story of Portugal and the Jewish refugees
During World War II, Portugal was frantically trying to hold on to its self-proclaimed wartime neutrality, but was increasingly caught in the middle of the economic, and naval wars between the Allies and the Nazis. To complicate matters further, thousands of refugees, many of them Jewish, flooded into Lisbon seeking a passage to the United States or Palestine. This talk will present the little known, and yet vitally important history of the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, during World War II.
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9/28/2023
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 11: Homophobia - a global phenomenon
To mark LGBT History Month, Professor Michael King will look at why homophobia has existed in nearly every society throughout history, and what motivates the hatred of gay people around the world.
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9/27/2023
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 10: Landing on a planet at 600 miles per hour
Unmanned robotic missions are essential for understanding the planets within our solar system. Current missions comprise of gentle landings combined with rovers to explore the local region. Due to the expense of such missions, and their sometimes unsuitability as scientific outposts, UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory is developing Planetary Penetrators, which aim to land on planets at very high speed, penetrating the planet and implanting equipment just below the surface.
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9/27/2023
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 9: From prehistory to the London blitz: foreshore archaeology and a rising river
When the tide is out, the Thames foreshore is the longest archaeological site in London. The remains cover a wide range of our long history and include prehistoric forests, a Bronze Age bridge, Saxon fish traps, Tudor jetties, later shipyards, watermen's causeways, and the hulks of boats, barges and ships. Our most recent study has even found evidence for bomb-strikes from the London Blitz, exactly 70 years ago. Much of this evidence is suffering from the river's increased erosion or by modern redevelopment. The Thames Discovery Programme team is training up a group of committed Londoners to survey the sites on a regular basis, recording the history on the foreshore before its washed away forever.
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9/27/2023
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 8: Sex education via the media: Promises and pitfalls
This lecture will draw on Dr Boynton's experiences of delivering sex advice through the media - as an agony aunt in magazines and online, and for education radio and TV such as Channel 4's The Sex Education Show. Drawing on research on media advice giving internationally Petra will highlight where media gets it wrong and right, and how we can inform sex education media for young people and adults through evidence based practice and research.
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9/26/2023