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Associationism, Pluralism and Postliberalism: the theopolitical legacy of David Nicholls and current British politics

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Kellogg College
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2014 David Nicholls Memorial Lecture, given by Professor John Milbank, University of Nottingham

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Kellogg College
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John Milbank
Keywords
religion
society
politics
christianity
socialism
economics
David Nicholls
Department: Kellogg College
Date Added: 05/11/2014
Duration: 00:59:11

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Part 3: Advanced technology

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Revolutionary Biology
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Just over a decade ago the face of British farming changed forever. A devastating outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease led to the enforced slaughter and incineration of over 10 million livestock across the country.
While this mass culling halted the spread of disease in the UK, the fight against Foot and Mouth continues to this day, predominately in developing countries. Fortunately, cutting edge structural biology research is paving the way for a new vaccine, set to revolutionise farming on a global scale.

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Revolutionary Biology
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Jonathan Webb
Keywords
farming
biochemistry
Medicine
foot and mouth
research
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 05/11/2014
Duration: 00:05:22

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Part 2: The history of structural biology

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Revolutionary Biology
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Understanding the function of a protein is an important step in finding out why the body succumbs to disease – but how do scientists find these proteins and figure out how they work?

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Revolutionary Biology
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Jonathan Webb
Keywords
biology
biochemistry
life
science
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 05/11/2014
Duration: 00:06:04

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Black holes in the nearby Universe

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 5th morning of Theoretical Physics covering the subject of Black holes: where physics reaches its limit.

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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John Magorrian
Keywords
rudolf peierls centre
theoretical physics
Physics
universe
black holes
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 05/11/2014
Duration: 00:45:10

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The impact of black holes on the Universe

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 5th morning of Theoretical Physics covering the subject of Black holes: where physics reaches its limit.

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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James Binney
Keywords
rudolf peierls centre
theoretical physics
Physics
black holes
universe
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 05/11/2014
Duration: 00:47:03

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Black holes in Einstein's gravity and beyond

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 5th morning of Theoretical Physics covering the subject of Black holes: where physics reaches its limit.

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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Andrei Starinets
Keywords
rudolf peierls centre
theoretical physics
Physics
black holes
einstein
gravity
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 05/11/2014
Duration: 00:44:01

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The Major Assumptions of Evidence-Based Policy: Bringing Empirical Evidence to Bear

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Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures
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The Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture 2014 given by Professor Tom Cook.
This paper identifies three major assumptions of the current evidence-based policy movement that seeks to use scientific methods to identify effective social policy initiatives: (1) Randomized controlled trials are the best way of identifying what works and should be preferred for building up an evidence base or should even constitute the only legitimate inputs into that base; (2) In policy research it is not difficult to label the causal agent in general language; and (3) Extrapolating from past causal findings (however secure) to future policy contexts depends on formal sampling theory. Empirical evidence is used to address these three assumptions. Each is found to be overstated. A somewhat different model of evidence-based research is briefly proposed. It makes more realistic assumptions about how research can contribute to evidence-based policy and respects the conceptual interdependencies between creating high quality tests of causal propositions, correctly labeling the cause (or effect), and minimizing the extrapolation from past knowledge to future applications.

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Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures
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Tom Cook
Keywords
research
trials
evidence-based policy
government
Department: Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Date Added: 04/11/2014
Duration: 00:51:33

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Choice or Accident? The outbreak of the First World War

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Alumni Weekend
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The causes of the First World War have long been controversial and remain so. The Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, and author of The War that Ended Peace (2013) brings us up to date on the debate.

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Alumni Weekend
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Margaret MacMillan
Keywords
ww1
europe
history
world war one
#ww1
great war
first world war
Department: Alumni Office
Date Added: 04/11/2014
Duration: 00:39:56

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Blood based biomarkers and Alzheimer’s; what do we want, when do we want it?

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Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
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Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Seminar

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Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
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Simon Lovestone
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alzheimer's
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Date Added: 04/11/2014
Duration: 00:56:29

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The ethics of sexuality

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Practical Ethics Bites
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Professor Janet Radcliffe Richards argues that homosexuality is natural, and that what is natural can be neither good nor bad.

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Practical Ethics Bites
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Janet Radcliffe Richards
Nigel Warburton
David Edmonds
Keywords
practical ethics
sexuality
morality
natural order
Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Date Added: 04/11/2014
Duration: 00:17:37

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