| 1. The Evolution of Our
Universe - from the Big Bang to the present, including
the appearance of life on Earth. |
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| 2. The Theory of
Biological Evolution
- presenting the wealth of evidence that supports the theory. |
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| 3. Human Evolution
- as determined by the latest fossil and genetic evidence. |
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The DNA Revolution - the latest revolutionary advances
in DNA research and gene editing, and the many ethical issues
that result from them. |
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| 5. Living in the
Anthropocene - the ways in which humans have impacted
the planet... an impact so profound that it warrants being
labelled as a whole new geological era - the Anthropocene. |
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| 6. Putting Alternative
Medicine to the Test - why science uses the Clinical
Trial to determine which medicines actually work, and how
Alternative Medicine fares when subjected to this test. |
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| 7. A Brief History of
Astronomy
- how different cultures have sought to measure and explain the
movements of the heavens. |
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| 8. Science Myths and
Misconceptions - examining a range of commonly held
science-based myths, identifying their possible origins and the
reasons they persist in spite of contrary scientific evidence. |
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| 9. The History of
Time-Keeping Devices - exploring the long history
of attempts to measure the passing of time, from ancient
sundials to atomic clocks, explaining how all of these different
devices work. |
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| 10. The James Webb Space Telescope - The design, deployment and operation of Hubble's successor, the JWST, and the science behind its fabulous early images. |
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| 11. The Science of Religion - Examining theories and evidence, from evolution and the cognitive sciences, that seek to explain the experience of religious belief as a purely naturalistic phenomenon, originating entirely in the human brain. |
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| 12. The Science of Dreams - Exploring the latest research into sleep and dreaming, revealing answers to questions such as "Why do we need to sleep?", "Why do we need to dream while we sleep?" and “Why are dreams often so weird?”. |
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