The Hay Festival is a celebration of literature and the arts, and Cambridge often brings along its own academic to share ideas and debate current issues. Check out some of the recordings from the festival: the subjects speakers covered include stem cell cloning, cancer research, the future of civic activism, the history of conspiracy theories, North Korean politics, underground engineering, the battle of Plataea and why everyone can understand economics.
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Subject Area: Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, Classics, Economics, Engineering, English, Geography, History, Law, Medicine, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, Veterinary Medicine
In The Long Run
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Subject Area: Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, Classics, Economics, Engineering, English, Geography, History, Law, Medicine, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, Veterinary Medicine