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The Sheldonian Series
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Sheldonian Series: Life

The Vice Chancellor moderates three guest speakers, delivering presentations examining the theme of Life from planetary, technological and ethical perspectives followed by a lively audience Q&A session.
Biology: The Whole Story
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Evolution - Chapter 2

Learn the theory of evolution in a simpler, more intuitive way than ever before with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford
Biology: The Whole Story
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Information in Cells - Chapter 1

Learn how cells use the information in DNA and the key components that make up a cell, with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford
Professor of Poetry
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The Life and Death of Poetry

A distracted walkabout with T.S Eliot and others.
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

What is life?

For this year's James Martin Memorial Lecture, Sir Paul Nurse will consider some of the fundamental ideas of biology with the aim of identifying principles that define living organisms.
Oxford Physics Public Lectures

The Search for Life on Earth, In Space and Time

Dr James Green, current Chief Scientist of NASA gives a talk on the how life may be distributed on Earth and in the Solar System with consideration of the age of our sun.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

FRIGHT Friday - Stretched to Breaking Point

Dan Holloway gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

FRIGHT Friday - Parenting, Fear, Hope and Salvation

Dr Joshua Hordern gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

FRIGHT Friday - Embodying Life and Death

Professor Cathy Morgan gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016.
The Physics of Fine-Tuning

Where and how might we search for life? From planet demographics to biosignatures

Professor Suzanne Aigrain is an expert exoplanet researcher. In this talk she will outline the methods for detection and characterisation of exoplanets in the context of finding planets that might harbor life.
The Physics of Fine-Tuning

Telescope Design and the Search for Life

In the first part of their discussion, Michael Meyer and Suzanne Aigrain lay out the conditions for habitability on an exoplanet and challenges of looking for such planets. This discussion was conducted at Trinity College, Oxford, on February 12, 2016.
The Physics of Fine-Tuning

Life in the Universe: Where and How Can We Find It?

In the fourth part of their discussion, Mario Livio and Joe Silk talk about the way planetary systems form and the preconditions for life-bearing planets to exist. This discussion was conducted at Trinity College, Oxford, on February 12, 2016
The Physics of Fine-Tuning

Biosignatures and the Search for Life

In the second part of their discussion, Joe Silk and Mario Livio go over biosignatures: things which, if observed, would be evidence for life. This discussion was conducted at Trinity College, Oxford, on February 12, 2016.
The Physics of Fine-Tuning

Fundamental constants and biology

George Ellis of the University of Cape Town shows how we can use a space of possibilities to assess the fragility of life. This talk was part of the Consolidation of Fine-Tuning Project's first workshop, "Life in the Universe", on November 3, 2015.
The Physics of Fine-Tuning

Assessing Fine-Tuning in Physics: How Many? How Fine? How Come?

Bernard Carr of Queen Mary University of London looks at sources of fine tuning in physics and their possible explanations. This talk was part of the Consolidation of Fine-Tuning Project's first workshop, "Life in the Universe", on November 3, 2015.
Uehiro Oxford Institute

St Cross Seminar: Governing life: is it wrong to intervene in biological processes?

In this seminar we explore why human interventions such as euthanasia or use of biotechnologies are controversial.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"There's no place like home" Part 3 - Exoplanets

Ruth Angus talks about the search for life outside our solar system. In our own solar system, we have rocky planets towards the centre and gas giant planets further out.
Career Equality Talks

Work-Life Balance

Interview with Professor Peter Donnelly
Revolutionary Biology

Part 2: The history of structural biology

Understanding the function of a protein is an important step in finding out why the body succumbs to disease – but how do scientists find these proteins and figure out how they work?
Revolutionary Biology

Part 1: The Building Blocks of Life

Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells but it doesn’t matter how closely you look, you still won’t see them.

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