bit about the work that you've been doing and then we'll have a a chat sure so I um don't want this to turn into a lecture I was in universities for 20 years so I was warning Matt I am prone to that um but hopefully you've all youall know about the Natural History Museum that's one of the pleasures of working here you show this sort of image you say where you're from it's got a big
you're quite all right now oh dear who who finished my lecture your lecture Dr Rutherford what is he talking about Mr Peasley what date do you thinkit is why it's May the 14th 1908 of
There, in a story that's interesting but I'm going to just kind of pass over, he decides after watching a demonstration in his physics lecture that he should invent a better electric motor, a motor that is sparkless.To develop that idea, he thinks that it's going to use a rotating magnetic field.
Kilimanjaro-- I have now a unique slide that I've only shown a few audiences, but I actually a couple months ago gave the big lecture for the American Alpine Club dinner in New York, and at the lecture was a guy I had met on Kilimanjarothat I hadn't seen since Kilimanjaro.
And I wanna teach a little bit about your life. So, if you have. This might be a sensitive lecture , so if you do have questions, you're welcome to send it to a hashtag or tweet at theturekclinic. If you wanna do that, we'll answer those for you. If you want a copy ofthe slides, do likewise please.
and then goes back and then goes forward um I don't want to give a lecture about it here I would rather have a sort of conversation because I feel I should be still sort of feel I should beinterviewing you so but so let me let me start with a a sort of
has 30 lectures and now eight or nine field trips in it every year with whatever the latest version of this lecture is so it's a lecture that's dynamic over time I also have given a lecture like this to a variety ofaudiences that I've never sought but that have kind of come through the organic method I've ended up with you here today because I was said hey Jane
ways of information retrieval like having uniform texts written for all their students we actually have a lecture from a law school in what's now Beirut in the 4th Century ad in which the lecturer says isn't that a coolPoint okay now go back eight pages you can imagine his whole class going back eight pages in these uniform texts but
off some ends actually some colonies even build flooding chambers which which lecture if you like it but the garrison nestor occupied by these old female
So what are the unifications we're not seeing in front of our eyes? So for example, there's so many examples through your work, through your lectures of Paul Dirac taking antimatter seriously.Looking at what the math shows and saying, "I really think this thing exists." I mean, it just sounds insane.
And the result of that was a rather high level of design across all the books, even books that were proceedings from academic conferences like this one, "36 Lectures in Biology," would still have a strong high level of design on them.And this is what made the program so strong.
equality and Human Rights Commission and done lots of other um brilliant things and in 2002 she gave a series of ref lectures um which BB kind of Flagship lectures she gave a series of lectures on trust which are fascinating and shepoints out that there's this big gap between the enthusiasm with which we say we don't trust people and the fact that
Assistant professors have a regular job with an opportunity for promotion and lifetime tenure. Lecturers, on the other hand, are on a road to nowhere. They're appointed from year to year generally only a few months before their teaching is to begin and have no chance of advancing.
They're kind of boring. Lectures are boring. Now I didn't actually listen to them, because they weren't boring.But they weren't interested.
And so I get in the van to go up to the set, and it was the longest, slowest ride I've ever taken in my life. lectures at Oxford and Cambridge.
lectures and they have a typical number of views--around a hundred thousand each--40 thousand here, a million there, give or take. So, he's reaching, right now, about two million
lectures I had seven guest lectures and I only had 11 class sessions so I took
Lectures are boring, because the pace is slow. And that's a problem.
lectures that would talk about this interaction between faith and science
I lecture all the time. I do a lot of trying to teach clinicians how to do this. I travel all over to say, "Here's
a lecture about the illusion of control.
Boring lecture , right? And so now you immediately wonder, how could this have been more dynamic?
The lecture was about quantum mechanics, the physics of very small things.
and lecture you guys about the internet.
I lecture at Rhode Island School of Design, which is phenomenal design school on the East Coast, Berklee College of Music, Dartmouth Film School.
We lecture with him.
of lecture and also some exercises.
hour lecture about something.
"In lecture five, I was talking about a revealing difference between two ways in which the retinal image can move." If you shut one eye, and poke-- you don't even
Long lecture on the elasticity of crime than you weren't expecting today.
Commencement lecture , yes. So I'm curious.
I lecture on this topic at Stanford.
interesting lecture about factoring polynomials.
this lecture of not saying any of the things that are normally said about ants like they have a queen this is how they
your lecture . They don't hear the part "Oh, by the way. You might want to put the notion of the queen in somebody else's minds."
big lecture halls or it's like the small conference rooms.
big lecture classrooms, there's uh about a hundred students in them. So, you're only going to get called on once per
The lectures were well received, but Einstein hadn't yet settled on the final form of the field equations.
other lecturers from Harvard, from Stanford, who do this full-time as an academic and research And that's called School of Hope.
At lectures , I usually meet the leaders who are born in the 60's and 70's I've met a few this morning as well
He lectured students in Kiel.
He lectured all over.
His lectures airing on PBS have been seen by millions.
good lecturers who will take a slightly different take on things. Even some topics, I take five different takes on it, so people see it from a bunch of different angles. Maybe at different
anatomy lecturer in mid 19th century England that he'd gone to st. George's
After the lecture , Werner Heisenberg described the man's theory as, "The saddest chapter in modern physics." Heisenberg also wrote to Niels Bohr and said,
giving a lecture . Chris Hitchens. I mean, Chris, you're hitting it. Sure. Absolutely. Yeah. And it feels like what we're getting though is something a little less robust than that. And certainly not
So look out for lecture series next year, look out for publications, look out for opportunities to engage with scholars, visual scholars and artists,
- I think in your lecture you mentioned this thing which I just love, the slime line.
In your Nobel Prize lecture , you propose what I think is a super interesting conjecture that quote, "Any pattern that can be generated or found in nature