Take my profits, please! Volatility reduction and ethics With increasing emphasis on the social and ethical obligations of...
The Dutch East Indies Company - The First 100 Years A series of two lectures. Dr Thomas Crump moved to...
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: The true story of Gulf War Syndrome Simon Wessely is professor of psychiatry at the Institute of...
Great Britain and the other imperial powers: Conflict over China During the nineteenth century, Great Britain fought two wars, the...
Who invented the calculus? - and other 17th century topics The development of the calculus brought together two seemingly unrelated...
Who invented the equals sign? With the invention of printing, mathematical writings became widely available...
Heading for Trouble: The perils of navigation This lecture was a part of the SeaBritrain2005 series of...
The perverse and the reverse: how bad measures skew markets Can any market be said to fail? Without clear measures...