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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

'Artificial Intelligence' part 3 - Understanding how we learn language

Professor Kim Plunkett explains how neuroscientists use artificial intelligence as a tool to model processes in the brain – in particular to understand how infants acquire language.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

'Artificial Intelligence' part 2 - How to create machines that learn

Professor Nando de Freitas explains that understanding how our brains work has helped us create machines that learn, and how these learning machines can be put to completing different tasks.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

'Artificial Intelligence' part 1 - Using artificial intelligence to spot patterns

Professor Stephen Roberts explains how machines, whose job it is simply to learn, can help researchers spot scientific needles in data haystacks, which will help us solve some grand challenges.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

'Explosions' part 3 - Health and Big Data

Professor Gil McVean explains what Big Data is and how it can be used to better understand and treat complex conditions, such as heart disease and dementia.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"Anomalies" Part 3 - Placebos and pain

Professor Irene Tracey explains the placebo effect and how it is a normal part of our pain system.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"Anomalies" Part 1 - Tinnitus

Researcher Joshua Gold explains a condition called tinnitus, most often described as a persistent and annoying sound in one or both ears.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"Hidden Worlds" Part 3 - The virtual universe

Dr Andrew Pontzen explains how chains of computers can be set up to simulate billions of years of development of the universe, but in a time period of weeks.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"Hidden Worlds" Part 2 - Robert Robinson’s chemical box

Edward Imrie and Dr Stephen Johnston Edward Imrie and Dr Stephen Johnston talk about a surprising discovery – a collection of boxes, originally containing chocolates and soap, now full of tiny chemical vials thought to date back to the 1930s.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"Hidden Worlds" Part 1 - Parallel Worlds

Dr David Wallace discusses the concept of the multiverse – a physical reality that contains lots of universes, each of which inhabited by different versions of ourselves.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"There's no place like home" Part 2 - The People of the British Isles

Bruce Winney describes the influx of humans to the British Isles, including the Romans, Anglo Saxons and Vikings. By comparing and contrasting the genetic make-up of patients, researchers can explore how genetics can influence disease.
Oxford Physics Public Lectures

From Argument to Experiment

Dr Christopher Palmer on the historical ties between physics and philosophy - from ancient philosophical thought through to the scientific revolution and the pioneers of modern physics.

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