Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2018 - Biology / Evolution - Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght
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The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic each, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825, missing 1939–42 because of the Second World War. The lectures present scientific subjects to a general audience, including young people, in an informative and entertaining manner. Michael Faraday initiated the first Christmas Lecture series in 1825. This came at a time when organised education for young people was scarce. Faraday presented a total of nineteen series in all. more...
From the Royal Institution:
Christmas lecturer Prof Alice Roberts, and Genetics Society guest lecturer Prof Aoife McLysaght present the 2018 CHRISTMAS LECTURES.
You share 99.4% of your genes with your neighbour, 98.7% with a chimp, and even 44% with a fruit fly – yet you are also entirely unique – there is nobody else quite like you. In this year’s CHRISTMAS LECTURES, Professor Alice Roberts, and genetics expert Aoife McLysaght, take us on a journey to answer this most fundamental question: Who Am I? We humans tend to view ourselves as separate from the natural world, a special creation even, but we’re far more closely related to the rest of the animal kingdom than you might imagine. From how our limbs evolved from fins, to the colour of our eyes, Alice and Aoife investigate our fascinating evolutionary story to reveal how we became who we are today. more...
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Yes, these are long, but interested persons will find them well worth watching.
They're not boring. Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght are excellent presenters.
Thanks for that Dig. Is it just me, or is Prof. Roberts kind of hot?
I find them both very attractive, but I'm essentially powerless against intelligent women with British or Irish Accents.
I've actually had a bit of a fan crush on Aoife McLysaght for a while now.
Yes they are. But Prof. Roberts...must be the red hair. Or that killer smile. Or the obvious intelligence. Or all of the above
Intelligence is sexy alright.
Totally understandable. And i can see why too.
Speaking of which, where's TiG?
On the road, driving son back to his university. Will check out later today.
We are a special creation .... in the image of God.
That's nice. Prove it!
Nothing like using the celebration of the birth of the sole source of human salvation to promote biased origins pseudoscience.
Nothing like your meaningless rhetoric to add nothing of value to any discussion.
The Royal Institution... Fighting ignorance on the day after Christmas since 1825.
A herculean task considering the extreme amount of ignorance (willful and otherwise) out there. Especially when it comes to science. But all the more reason to keep fighting. It's especially good to see kids in the audience, where they can learn scientific information and hopefully to think logically and critically.
ignorance rules
Unfortunately.
Oh, hey, I just remembered that your favorite 'pseudoscientist', Richard Dawkins, presented the Christmas Lectures back in 1991.
They were about evolution, too.
Here's the full playlist of all 5 lectures: Growing Up in the Universe | Richard Dawkins
Started checking out the videos - seem very well done.
Too bad the people most likely to take these seriously are the ones who do not need them.
What goes through the mind of one who categorically dismisses this kind of introductory information as pseudoscience and refuses to even begin the process of education?
Alright I am hooked,
Alice Roberts is one of my top 3 favorite lecturers.
She is to Biological Evolution as Bettany Hughes is to Classical History and Nick Zentner is to Geology.