Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College Lectures
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Lift Off - Chris Lintott
Professor Lintott explains how we connect the many different ways of observing the sky with attempts to understand the nature of what is seen.This lecture was recorded by Chris Lintott on September 25th 2026 at Barnards Inn, London....
The Strange Story of Astroarcheology - Ronald Hutton
Of all the components of the environment around British prehistoric monuments, the sky is the one that has changed least across the millennia. This, and the fact that some of the most famous of these monuments were clearly aligned on heavenly b...
How to Play a Planet Space and Music II - Milton Mermikides:
Following on from last year’s lecture at the Festival of Musical Ideas, Professors Lintott and Mermikides will present, demonstrate and critique the idea of ‘astro sonification’, using sound and music to represent the astronomical patterns seen...
What searching for life tells us about Earth - Helen Czerski
Professors Czerski and Lintott investigate how ocean Earth compares and differs from the other planets we’ve found, and how water worlds in many forms may be more common than expected. Using Lovelock’s framing of a biosphere, we consider life o...
Santa, Elon, and the Interplanetary Internet - Victoria Baines
Unless it’s Christmas Eve, that chain of lights moving across the sky is probably not Santa’s sleigh but Starlink’s low earth orbit satellites (LEOs). To meet demand for ubiquitous, instantaneous, and uninterrupted communication, our internet i...