The Forum Episodes Episode guide
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The Benefits of Simplicity
How to make the world simpler
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Oxygen: Its History and its Future
The history and the future of oxygen
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Anger
Why do we get cross?
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Machine Translation: The End of the Human Translator?
Will new technology mean the end of the human translator?
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The Pleasures and Perils of Storytelling
Why do we see a narrative in everything?
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Reawakening Language
Reawakening language and culture
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Consumption and Our Identity
How what we consume shapes and defines our identity
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A Very Long View
Tracking changes in our lives and bodies over decades, generations and even millennia
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Grass Roots
Grass Roots: How 鈥榩eople鈥檚鈥� movements are changing.
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The Hidden Power of Noise
Why we should all pay more attention to background noise.
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The Past, Present and Future of Shipping
New ways to travel across the ocean and to find out what lies in its depths
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Symbols, Signs and Secrets. What symbols tell us about ourselves.
Why symbols are so important, their history and their future.
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A Leap of Faith: Finding Common Ground Between Science and Religion
Can there be a common ground between science and religion?
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Being Cold
How weather affects a nation鈥檚 character
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Reconciliation: Healing the Nation
What is the best way to redress historical injustices?
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Expansion and Growth
Exploring ideas about expansion and growth
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Core: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
What lies at the heart of the universe and the core of the earth itself?
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India's Urban Challenge
Will India cope once the majority of its people live in cities?
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Fragmentation: How Tiny Pieces Explain the Whole Picture
What can fragmented knowledge and physical matter tell us?
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Boundaries
Boundaries: real and imagined
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The Bicycle: Freedom Machine
How important is the bicycle and what does it do for us?
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Why Do we Need the State?
Is it time to rethink what a modern state is for?
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The Wind: Its Impact on Earth and in Space
How the wind shapes our environment from the sea to art and outer space
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Are we Losing the Ability to Focus?
In the age of perpetual distraction, are we losing the ability to focus?
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Upside Down
Subversion and inversion in a topsy-turvy world
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Curves
Curves in art, space and life
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Steel
How steel gives us music, art and the modern world
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Magic
The art - and science - of magic and its place in the world today.
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The Salt Story
Salt: its history and future.
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Grief
Grief and loss and ritual in different creatures and different cultures.
