User:Priceyeah/IOT

• Abelard and Heloise - love, sex and theology in 12th century Paris
• Alexander Pope - 'short is my date, but deathless my renown'
• Alexander von Humboldt - the remarkable career of the Prussian naturalist
• Altruism - how can evolutionary biology explain it?
• Anaesthetics - from ether frolics to pain-free surgery
• Anarchism - a question of authority?
• Antimatter - where has it all gone?
• Archaeology and Imperialism
• Archimedes - the Greek mathematician and his Eureka moments
• Asteroids - celestial bodies from the beginning of time

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• Astronomy and Empire - the link between colonial expansion and scientific discovery
• Averroes - the battle between faith and reason
• Avicenna - wine, women and philosophy
• Beauty - the philosophy of beauty
• Bismarck - the Iron Chancellor
• Borges - the life and work of Argentina's best loved short story writer
• Carbon - the basis of life
• Catherine the Great - the Enlightened Despot of Eighteenth Century Russia
• Christopher Marlowe
• Common Sense Philosophy - "There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it"

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• Cynicism - bold and populist, the history of a shocking philosophy
• Divine Right of Kings - "there's such divinity doth hedge a king"
• Don Quixote - Spanish romance and the first novel
• Epistolary Literature - great novels of fictional letters
• Faeries - supernatural creatures that are neither gods nor humans
• Field of the Cloth of Gold - a Renaissance entente cordiale
• Friendship - thinking philosophically about our close companions
• Galaxies - extra-galactic nebulae, black holes, stars and dark matter
• Genetic Mutation - the error-strewn secrets of life
• Genghis Khan - founder of one of the world's largest ever land-based empires

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• Geoffrey Chaucer - the first Great English Poet
• Goethe - formation of a German cultural icon
• Gravitational Waves - a new window on the universe
• Greek Comedy - sing as you revel and rout
• Guilt - what is it good for?
• Heart of Darkness - one of the most influential novels of the 20th century
• Hell - its representation through the ages
• Human Evolution - from early hominids to Homo sapiens
• Indian Maths - laying the foundations for modern numerals and zero as a number
• John Stuart Mill - one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th Century

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• Karl Marx - In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher
• Karl Popper - his ideas challenged our approach to the philosophy of science
• King Alfred and the Battle of Edington
• Magnetism - an attractive history
• Mars - the search for life on the Red Planet
• Mathematics and Music - the science behind sound and composition
• Merlin
• Microbiology - the story of the invisible masters of the universe
• Negative numbers - how they spread across civilizations
• Ockham's Razor - cutting medieval philosophy down to size

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• Pastoral Literature - the romantic idealisation of the countryside
• Perception and the Senses - how do we see what we see?
• Pragmatism - a practical philosophy fit for 20th century America
• Prime Numbers - the building blocks of mathematics
• Relativism - the battle against transcendent knowledge
• Renaissance Astrology - 'we are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way please them'
• Renaissance Maths - the birth of modern mathematics?
• Renaissance Paganism
• Samuel Johnson and his Circle
• Seventeenth Century Print Culture - piety, populism and political protest

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• Siegfried Sassoon - the poet who survived
• Socrates - the man and the myth
• Symmetry - the pattern at the heart of our physical world
• Taste - the good, the bad and the ugly in 18th century Britain
• The Abbasid Caliphs - when Baghdad ruled the Muslim world.
• The Aeneid
• The Arabian Nights - the art of story-telling
• The Carolingian Renaissance - the revival of early medieval Western Europe
• The Diet of Worms - Luther's stand against the Church
• The Discovery of Oxygen - feuds and revolutions at the birth of modern chemistry

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• The Fibonacci Sequence - the numbers in nature
• The Four Humours - yellow bile, blood, choler and phlegm in the original theory of everything
• The Great Exhibition - a wonder of the Victorian world
• The Heart - its anatomical and cultural history
• The History of Optics - from telescopes to microscopes, a new way of seeing the world
• The Jesuits - the school masters of Europe
• The KT Boundary - did the dinosaurs burn out or fade away?
• The Needham Question - did China lay the foundations of modern science?
• The Nicene Creed - when Christ became God
• The Oath - guaranteeing law, government and the army in the Classical world

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• The Oxford Movement - Anglicans and Catholics in the 19th century
• The Peasants' Revolt - a lasting legacy for popular uprising?
• The Permian-Triassic Boundary - when 95% of life was killed off
• The Pilgrim Fathers - the original American dream
• The Poincare Conjecture - how a 19th century mathematician changed how we think about the shape of the universe
• The Prelude - the greatest poem in the English language?
• The Rise of the Mammals - life in a cold climate
• The Royal Society - the first club for experimental science
• The Sassanian Empire - in the shadow of Ancient Persia
• The Search for Immunisation - and the battle against smallpox

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• The Siege of Constantinople - the end of a thousand years of the Byzantine Empire
• The Siege of Orleans - did Joan of Arc really rescue France?
• The Spanish Inquisition - one of the most barbaric episodes in European history
• The Speed of Light - a cosmic speed limit?
• The Terror - when Madame Guillotine ruled France
• Thomas Hobbes and the political philosophy of 'Leviathan'
• Uncle Tom's Cabin - the novel that started the American Civil War
• Victorian Pessimism - fear and loathing in the late 19th century