What's the history behind the #FreeTheNipple movement? 🤔👙 Find out in our latest short with Prof. Joanna Bourke here: https://gres.hm/2ID0Hfo Check out more Rhetoric #lectures here: https://gres.hm/2QWqeVD | Gresham College

Why is Aristotle the most significant intellectual in world history? Aristotle #GreshamLecture Plato’s most brilliant student and perhaps the most significant intellectual in world history, Aristotle of Stageira built on the doctrines he had studied at the Academy but also radically disagreed with them. The founder of Athens’ second great university, the Lyceum, did not believe there was any perfect, ideal world that transcended human ability to see, touch, smell and hear it, and proposed that a

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Need a strategy to beat the system? The #Maths of Game Theory #GreshamLecture When we buy, sell, bargain, barter, bid at auctions, and compete for resources, we want to be sure that we are using the best strategies. Game theory can help us understand precisely these kinds of situations. That’s why in 1994, the Nobel Prize for Economics was won by a mathematician – John Nash. Using games like the Prisoner’s dilemma, this lecture explains the work of game theorists such as Nash, David Blackwell an

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51K views · 377 reactions | A full-scale re-enactment of one of the most famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance has been launched at Trinity College Dublin. Raphael’s 16th century masterpiece 'The School of Athens' depicts a gathering of 50 male philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists. But the new image, entitled 'The School of Hibernia', has a striking twist. #art #ArtHistory #Renaissance | RTÉ News | Facebook