Useful Links for 13th Talk (May 4th) - Optical Illusions

An extensive and detailed academic site from Michael Bach (also available in German)

A large archive - largely for fun

Useful Links for 12th Talk (April 6th) - Free Will and Consciousness

In Our Time - BBC Radio 4 programme on Free Will

Galen Strawson on Free Will Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Interview

Wikipedia page for Vilayanur Ramachandran

Patricia Churchland Web Page (follow links to publications and multimedia)

Useful Links for 11th Talk (March 23rd) - Mesolithic to Mediaeval

Archaeological Sites: Star Carr, Skara Brae, British Stone Circles

Historical Metallurgy, Wikipedia site for Metallurgy

Indo-Europeans - Wikipedia page with links and related articles

Y-Haplogroup - Wikipedia page

Useful Links for 10th Talk (March 9th) - Large Hadron Collider

Some of the links for the last talk are relevant here. In addition the following are useful:

Large Hadron Collider - CERN and also this and this specifically UK link

If you want to learn more about String Theory try here

and for an alternative view, and a broad range of interesting opinions, try Lawrence Krauss home page

Useful Links for 9th Talk (February 23rd) - Nuclear Physics

The Science & Technology Facilities Channel - YouTube Link - Short videos on some of the issues covered in this talk

Wikipedia link to Nuclear Physics - some of the history is covered in this article

If you're really up for a challenge you can try these Wikipedia articles:

Noether's Theorem

Symmetry

Useful Links for 8th Talk (February 9th) - DNA & Genetics

Wikipedia link to Genetics

Links to Human Genome Project and The Wellcome Institue page for Human Genome Project

Extensive Information about Human Genes & Chromosomes

The Neanderthal Genome Project

Useful Links for 7th Talk (January 26th) - DNA & Genetics

Wikipedia link to DNA

Nobel Prize Winner Biographies for Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins

Information about The Sanger Institute and Frederick Sanger

Useful Links for 6th Talk (January 12th) - Maps & Mapping

More than anyone would ever want to know on Map Projections

Wikipedia's more basic introduction. And this link to Map Datums

The biography of William Roy with some info on the 1st Triangulation of Great Britain

An introduction to the Great Trigonometric Survey of India. Follow the links to find out more about George Everest

Useful Links for 5th Talk (December 15th) - Journey of Mankind:

Bradshaw Foundation - Main source for the talk. Gives extensive info on rock art from around the world

Wikipdedia page for Neanderthals - contains extensive source info and references

Website for Lascaux Caves - Everything you need to know about the caves and their paintings (in French, English, German and Spanish)

And the website for the Altamira Caves

Info on Dolní Vestonice - Palaeolithic burial and associated artefacts

Useful Links for 4th Talk (December 1st) - Energy, Power etc:

Web page for the National Grid

Wikipedia pages for Nuclear Power and Three Gorges Dam

How to Convert Thrust to Horsepower

links added by Ian Phillips

Useful Links for 3rd Talk (November 17rd) - Risk, Statistics etc:

The Sally Clark Home Page - all the details about this case

A newspaper article and Wikipedia entry for information about the Lucia de Berk case

An entertaining 20min video from Peter Donnelly covers a number of the items I mentioned in the talk

and a more detailed description of the Penney Ante Game in this article (counter-intuitive probability game)

and Yes, Prime Minister tells you all you need to know about how to organize an Opinion Poll

Useful Links for 2nd Talk (November 3rd) - Speech and Language:

Wikipedia entry for Broca's Area. Includes info on Broca's Aphasia and links to Wernicke's Area

Learn how to pronounce Consonants and Vowels

Find out about Proto Indo-European. Quite technical but includes free book on grammar etc (700+ pages)

Paper by Steven Pinker on Language Acquisition and a (somewhat contentious) article by Geoffrey Sampson Empiricism v Nativism

Useful Links for 1st Talk (October 20th):

Alan Sokal's talk for Sense about Science, and Alan Sokal's home page here

Wikipedia entry for David Hume

Read all about the Nobel Prizes here

and the Ig® Nobel Prizes here