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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.
24/10/2010
Can reading ever be dangerous? With bestselling novelist Audrey Niffenegger.
31/10/2010
This week, The Forum trains its sights a long way beyond the horizon.
07/11/2010
Special recording from Belfast: Creating a post-conflict society.
14/11/2010
Is there a place for honour in the modern world?
27/11/2010 GMT
Manipulation or collaboration: P.J.O'Rourke, nano technology and our music instinct.
21/11/2010
The new plasma engine that will make your trip to Mars as easy as crossing the Atlantic.
04/12/2010 GMT
Challenging Indian history and identity with Lord Desai, plus language and sex identities.
11/12/2010 GMT
Can the places where we live, work and heal affect our wellbeing?