Conference Talks

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You Are Not Netflix - How to Learn from Conference Talks

Uncover the hidden truths behind conference talks and engineering blogs by learning to read between the lines and extract meaningful insights despite omissions and half-truths.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

Explosive Science

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Chris Bishop uses demonstrations to explore the origins, uses, and properties of explosives.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

Zap, Crackle and Pop - The Story of Electricity

A demonstration-led journey through electricity’s history, from the Ancient Greeks to Faraday, asks whether we have really tamed its power.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

Four Dimensional Maths - Things to See and Hear in the Fourth Dimension

Matt Parker makes the fourth dimension tangible with playful physical models and demonstrations of how four-dimensional shapes appear in our three-dimensional world.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

Antimatter - Why the Anti-World Matters

Tara Shears explains why antimatter matters and how results from LHCb and other experiments are advancing its study.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

Quantum Life - How Physics Can Revolutionise Biology

Explores how quantum phenomena such as tunnelling and superposition may shape processes in living cells, from photosynthesis to bird navigation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

The Science of Fireworks

Demonstrations show how pyrotechnic chemistry turns gunpowder and other materials into fireworks with different effects, from loud bangs to whistles and crackles.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

How Not to Be Wrong - The Power of Mathematical Thinking

Stories show how mathematical thinking can uncover hidden structures in everyday life and help us reason more reliably.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

An Introduction to Quantum Biology

Philip Ball explores how quantum effects may shape familiar biological phenomena, from smell and enzyme activity to birds’ migration.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

Dark Matter's Not Enough

Andrew Pontzen argues that the cosmos is stranger for being so predictable than for containing dark matter and dark energy.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

Our Mathematical Universe

Max Tegmark argues that the universe is itself a mathematical structure, using mathematics’ success in describing the cosmos to probe the nature of reality.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

Copy Number Variation and the Secret of Life

Explores how gene duplications and deletions helped shape human traits such as color vision and smell, while also contributing to disease.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

The Neuroscience of Memory

Hippocampal damage can limit imagination and alter how people perceive the world, as well as disrupt memory.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Royal Institution

Seeing Things in a Different Light - How X-ray Crystallography Revealed the Structure of Everything

A century of X-ray crystallography, from the Braggs’ diffraction work to revealing the structures of proteins and other materials.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

A Beginner's Guide to eBPF Programming for Networking

Live-coding examples show how eBPF programs attach to networking events and inspect or manipulate packets to build high-performance networking tools.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk