Catch up: Whither the Public Lecture? Watch via: https://gres.hm/public-lecture Professor Martin Elliott, Provost of Gresham College, explores the history of the public lecture. He asks, in an era supposedly characterised by shorter attention spans, and greater competition for that attention, can the public lecture survive? #lecture #publicspeaking #oracy #learning #rhetoric #greshamcollege | Gresham College

Ahead of his second Gresham lecture next week, catch up with Prof Chris Linttot's first: Island Universes: Discovering Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way This lecture covers the Great Debate of the early twentieth century as new telescopes and new ways of observing the cosmos put our Milky Way in its place; and looks at how subsequent observations helped us understand how galaxies like our own formed and evolved. University of Oxford Physics Magdalene College, Cambridge Royal Astronomical Society #ga

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