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21/03/2010
What makes an outsider become an insider?
28/03/2010
Is it a good idea to erase our painful memories?
04/04/2010
How much money is one life worth? Should we be putting a price tag on the terminally ill?
11/04/2010
Storytelling: through DNA, ancient texts and in Eastern wisdom
18/04/2010
Is art and creativity universal and what evolutionary advantage has it given us?
25/04/2010
Power-games, unwelcome parasites, and the rise of middle classes in the Muslim world.
02/05/2010
Innovation: the mysterious realm of nanotechnology.
09/05/2010
Engaging your enemies: is democracy a precondition for peace?
16/05/2010
Tracing the silvery threads of a spider鈥檚 web鈥� the power of connections.
23/05/2010
Soft power or Smart power: will Joseph Nye's ideas work in the 21st Century?
30/05/2010
This week on The Forum we鈥檙e going to discuss why we lie to protect our sense of self.
06/06/2010
This week on The Forum: Masks, Movement and Emotion.
13/06/2010
New Beginnings: cell renewal and telomeres, the rise of China and new African education.
20/06/2010
Is the world hurtling towards a final theory of everything ? And what might it look like?
27/06/2010
How our mind can behave very differently depending on who we are with.
04/07/2010
Forum at Science Museum: Who am I? A combination of pleasure, pain and love?
11/07/2010
British Historian, Professor Niall Ferguson, revives the era of gentlemanly capitalism.
18/07/2010
In a special TED show, we ask about change and how to bring it about.
25/07/2010
Lord John Alderdice explains how to use psychotherapy to bring peace.
01/08/2010
Why human instincts are floundering in a modern world of fast food and cartoons.
08/08/2010
The community versus the individual. How do we get past greed and what鈥檚 the alternative?
15/08/2010
The value of uncertainty, as a source of artistic inspiration.
22/08/2010
The surprisingly long history of obesity. And do storytelling and science ever meet?
29/08/2010
A new understanding of what happens in our brain when we read.
05/09/2010
Can freedom of choice be a burden?
12/09/2010
What heals pain? Silence or speaking out?
19/09/2010
New Science of living longer plus Clay Shirky
26/09/2010
How monkeys can teach us more about human irrationality plus writer Marilynne Robinson.
03/10/2010
Former England Cricket captain Mike Brearley explains what makes a good team, great.
10/10/2010
This week on the Forum: empathy in great apes, ancient Athens and fictional characters.
17/10/2010
This week on The Forum, pragmatism versus idealism.
