The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures – Watch Past Lectures and Learn About This Year’s Lecture #science
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures – Watch Past Lectures and Learn About This Year’s Lecture #science
Feb 2, 2015
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In the Christmas Lectures we learnt how forensic investigators find and analyse evidence. Tonight, we'll see how it holds up in court, as the Ri turns into a courtroom and Sue Black faces a real-life KC. The audience will decide the fate of our trial 🧑‍⚖️ 8pm on BBC Four/iPlayer. | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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In the Christmas Lectures we learnt how forensic investigators find and analyse evidence. Tonight, we'll see how it holds up in court, as the Ri turns into a courtroom and Sue Black faces a real-life KC. The audience will decide the fate of our trial 🧑‍⚖️ 8pm on BBC Four/iPlayer. | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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The 2022 Christmas Lectures with forensic anthropologist Sue Black start TONIGHT. We cannot contain our excitement! 🙌 In lecture one we'll look at what clues are hidden in our bodies, and how investigators can uncover a host of information about someone from the smallest fragment of their remains. Tune in to BBC Four and iPlayer at 8pm! | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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The 2022 Christmas Lectures with forensic anthropologist Sue Black start TONIGHT. We cannot contain our excitement! 🙌 In lecture one we'll look at what clues are hidden in our bodies, and how investigators can uncover a host of information about someone from the smallest fragment of their remains. Tune in to BBC Four and iPlayer at 8pm! | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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Are you ready for round two of the Christmas Lectures tonight? Sue Black will work with a host of world-class experts in forensic science, as they reveal how they find clues that are invisible to the naked eye, and analyse them to solve crimes. Tune in to BBC Four/iPlayer at 8pm! | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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Are you ready for round two of the Christmas Lectures tonight? Sue Black will work with a host of world-class experts in forensic science, as they reveal how they find clues that are invisible to the naked eye, and analyse them to solve crimes. Tune in to BBC Four/iPlayer at 8pm! | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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At this festive time of year, BBC Archive brings you the ghost of Christmas Lectures past. Go science! This year's lectures end today. | BBC Archive
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At this festive time of year, BBC Archive brings you the ghost of Christmas Lectures past. Go science! This year's lectures end today. | BBC Archive
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Be in it to win it: the 2023 Christmas Lectures ticket ballot is now open to Ri Members! 🎟️ Not a member yet? Join us today for your chance to secure one of the hottest tickets in town at Christmas time: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/join-us-christmas-lectures-live-filming | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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Be in it to win it: the 2023 Christmas Lectures ticket ballot is now open to Ri Members! 🎟️ Not a member yet? Join us today for your chance to secure one of the hottest tickets in town at Christmas time: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/join-us-christmas-lectures-live-filming | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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This was the best TV entrance of 2021. Don't bother looking for a worthy contender, we checked. The #XmasLectures with Jonathan Van-Tam are on our website and available around the world! 🦠 Watch here: rigb.org/christmas-lectures | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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This was the best TV entrance of 2021. Don't bother looking for a worthy contender, we checked. The #XmasLectures with Jonathan Van-Tam are on our website and available around the world! 🦠 Watch here: rigb.org/christmas-lectures | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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LAST CHANCE to join the ballot to attend the 2023 Christmas Lectures! Become a member and get: 🎟️ Free or better than half-price science lectures 📺 Early access, ad-free videos 👩‍🔬 Exclusive events 🛍️ Heaps of discounts Learn more: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/join-us-christmas-lectures-live-filming | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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What an electric demonstration! ⚡For a taste of what our events for curious young minds are like, Dan Plane (Ri Head of Demo) shows us how static electricity works. This clip will make your hairs stand up! | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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How to watch the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures online and on TV
Dec 25, 2023
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A Christmas Lecturer's favourite Christmas Lectures 🌟 We sat down with 1987 lecturer David Phillips to reminisce on his time here at the Ri, walking in the footsteps of Michael Faraday and joining him in the history books. Watch the full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=hu0ATx1OLfo | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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🕯️ Christmas Lectures iconic object no. 4 – from various lectures in the 1800s, with Michael Faraday This is Michael Faraday's candle holder, used when delivering the popular lecture series "A Chemical History of a Candle" in the mid-1800s, which helped audiences step into the world of science through a familiar household object. The lectures were later published as a book, in which Faraday wrote: "There is not a law under which any part of this universe is governed which does not come into pla
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The Christmas Lectures, supported by CGI , start TONIGHT! Chris van Tulleken will guide us through the surprising science of food, revealing... 👅 How we taste food 👀 What makes food appetising 💩 How digestion works ...and more! Tune into BBC Four or iPlayer at 9pm to watch! | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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The final instalment of our 2023 CHRISTMAS LECTURES, supported by CGI in the UK, is tonight 🙌 Join Mike Wooldridge as he explores some of the risks of AI - which are real and which are imagined? Find out tonight on BBC Four & iPlayer from 8pm. | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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If you enjoyed the 2022 Christmas Lectures, you'll LOVE what we do all year round to connect people of all ages and backgrounds with science. Explore our public programme of talks now: http://rigb.org/whats-on | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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On this day in 1836, Michael Faraday constructed the first Faraday cage ⚡ A Faraday cage shields the interior from external electromagnetic radiation and electrical fields by channelling electricity through the cage, providing constant voltage on all sides of the enclosure. Since the difference in voltage is the measure of electrical potential, no current flows through the interior space of the cage. In our daily lives we are surrounded by this invention. Faraday cages can be found in microwave
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The Lecture Theatre's filling up and the show's about to start😊 Gather your family. Grab your snacks. Fill-up your glasses 🥂 The CHRISTMAS LECTURES, supported by CGI, are starting on BBC Four in one hour. | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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Radiation is all around us, we just can't see it with the naked eye. The cloud chamber is an incredible piece of equipment that allows us to visualise ionising radiation. ☢️ This clip is from the 1993 Christmas Lectures with Frank Close. We're sharing a clip from Lectures past every month as we count down to their massive 200th anniversary 💥 | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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Sound needs a medium to travel — in this case, air. 🔊 Physicist Charles Taylor beautifully demonstrated this during his 1989 Christmas Lectures on the science of music. Watch the full series here: rigb.org/explore-science/explore/video/exploring-music-what-music-1989 This year, we're celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Christmas Lectures. Stay tuned as we dive into our archives to share the best bits! #Discover200 | Royal Institution of Great Britain
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Christmas Lectures 2019: How to Bend the Rules - Hannah Fry
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Why sound can't travel in a vacuum – Christmas Lecture with Charles Taylor
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Zap, Crackle and Pop: The Story of Electricity
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Christmas Lectures Past: Hugh Montgomery
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Michael Faraday's Electric Frogs
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How Fusion Reactors Control Plasma - 2016 CHRISTMAS LECTURES
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