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In the mid-twentieth century the Southern Ocean whaling industry was the world’s biggest fishery. Since then, most whale species have been depleted to near extinction, most fisheries have declined and the ocean’s living resources are in crisis. Marine biologist Sidney Holt will examine causes of this catastrophe and suggest restorative actions, looking at the state of science and the economic, political, social and emotional factors involved. The lecture will critically explore the relationship between campaigns and research concerned with wildlife conservation, environmental issues, and improving the welfare of wild animals.

Notwithstanding bible stories, the average human lifespan has reached “three score years and ten” only through spectacular increases in the past two centuries, and only in the richer half of the world. Among the 60 million people who die each year, 10 million are children under five,…

London: a microcosm of global health… or life and death on the Piccadilly line. While some people feel “overtasked, overstrained and overlived in this close London life”, others thrive in the metropolis. From Uxbridge to Cockfosters, what makes the difference?

“Lloyd’s is the McDonald’s of the Insurance Industry” London is still considered as the world’s insurance and reinsurance centre. But no professional reinsurance company is owned by UK shareholders – the Germans, Swiss, Americans and French dominate. Lloyd’s has ceased to be a members-only…

How does music exert such extraordinary effects on our emotions? To what extent does it depend upon our nature (biological rhythms, instinctive reactions to certain sound patterns) and to what extent experience (e.g. conditioned associations, nostalgia)? Particular attention is given to the…

This quartet, which was composed in 1810 or 1811 and is his last before the so-called “late” quartets that crowned his final years. It is sometime nicknamed the “Serioso” (a strange, invented word which makes up part of the…

Haydn was always an experimenter, and this quartet is one of his most unusual, in that the customary balance between the first two movements is reversed. The first movement is light and undemanding in character (a theme and…

Professor Kenneth Falconer delievers his lecture on ‘Fractal Curves: From the Esoteric to the Ubiquitous’ gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/curves-in-honour-of-leibnizs-tercentenary

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