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For Denis Alexander, faith led to fifteen years in universities in the Middle East. Here he explains why he took...
Rosalind Picard explains her work in using technology to decode and respond to emotion, and how it relates to...
Prof. John Houghton reflects on the problem of evil and suffering, particularly as brought...
John Houghton describes the dramatic changes that climate change will bring to Africa.
Francis Collins changed paths and went to medical school, where he encountered genetics for the first time. He...
Death makes us realize that we will not live forever, and what we believe really does matter.
An academic career can go in unexpected directions. But for Ian Hutchinson, his faith certainly was a strong...
Talking to a terminally ill patient at her bedside made Francis Collins begin to think more carefully about his...
Ian Hutchinson talks about how his faith has influenced him in other areas of his career: the main one being...
John Houghton, former member of the UK Government Panal on Sustainable Development, talks...
A story about a patient with temporal lobe epilepsy and how that relates to religious...
Over the last ten years Rosalind Picard's group has started thinking about autism. Their technology can be...
Francis Collins tells the story of a woman who is involved in a clinical study. Because of the decoding of the human...
An explanation of some of the challenges for people living with autism, and an example of how affective computing...
Growing up in Africa continues to have an impact on the way that Ard Louis lives his life now.
It is easy for scientists to just follow their love of learning. However over the last 5 years communication...
Ard Louis explains why he thinks that questions of science and religion are important to Africa...
Technology can 'democratize' communication by allowing people who otherwise wouldn't be able to...
The main issues are ethical. For example, how do you choose the research that you do? For Jennifer Wiseman the...
Monty Barker - Psychiatrist
The vast majority of scientific funding in medicine and engineering goes to funding research that benefits...
Jennifer Wiseman also believes that it's valuable to share her own personal insights from looking at the latest discoveries...
An example of how using small cameras to give real time information on a person's emotional state can help those...
Rosalind Picard explains the benefits of consulting the people they are trying to help at every stage of the process.
John Bryant shares his own excitement at the possibility of understanding more about how living organisms work...
Technology always potential negative uses of any technology, and scientists cannot just assume that people will...
There is a huge spill over effect from the developed to the developing world. Denis Alexander discusses how...
We shouldn’t feel that we have to choose between caring for the poor and doing other activities - we need to focus...