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In Our Time: Science

Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.

Episodes

Total: 292

Evolutionary Psychology

2000/11/2

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Evolutionary Psychology. Richard Dawkins redefined human nature in 1

Laws of Nature

2000/10/19

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Laws of Nature. Since ancient times philosophers and physicists

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the question of consciousness, our sense of self, and how we are abl

Chemical Elements

2000/5/25

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the chemical elements. The aim and challenge in chemistry, according

Human Origins

2000/4/27

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution of the human species. Where did we come from - we bein

The Natural Order

2000/4/6

Melvyn Bragg examines the science of taxonomy. The Argentinean author Jose Luis Borges illustrated t

Grand Unified Theory

2000/2/24

Melvyn Bragg examines 20th century physics’ quest for the ultimate theory of everything. Einstein le

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great poet and dramatist, famous for

Information Technology

2000/1/13

Melvyn Bragg discusses the social and economic consequences of the information revolution. There are

Climate Change

2000/1/6

Melvyn Bragg discusses climate change. In 1999 the weather gave the planet’s occupants a terrible be

Time

1999/12/30

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of mankind’s attempt to understand the nature of time. A

Medical Ethics

1999/12/16

Melvyn Bragg examines the technological advances and ethics of modern medicine. On an average workin

Consciousness

1999/11/25

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the problems of consciousness, one of the greatest mysteries facing

Genetic Determinism

1999/9/23

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the theory of Genetic Determinism. In the middle of the last century

Pain

1999/7/22

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss pain; something of which everyone has an individual experience. What

Intelligence

1999/7/1

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a question that has stalked the twentieth century: Intelligence. Sin

The Great Disruption

1999/6/17

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the shift that has gone on through the 20th century from our being a

Memory and Culture

1999/5/27

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss memory. At the start of the twentieth century Freud put memory at th

The Universe's Origins

1999/5/20

Melvyn Bragg examines the history of what we know about the origins of the universe. Some four hundr

Mathematics

1999/5/6

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the way perceptions of the importance of mathematics have fluctuated