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The Essay - New Generation Thinkers

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Series of essays playing host to bright young minds from Britain's top universities and think tanks

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The Essay - New Generation Thinkers - Episode 1

Amira Bennison of Cambridge University discusses Islamic history and globalisation.

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The Essay - New Generation Thinkers - Episode 2

Mathematician Colva Roney-Dougal considers chaos, risk and the global credit crisis, asking whether financial difficulties can be predicted.

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The Essay - New Generation Thinkers - Episode 3

Charles Fernyhough of Durham University looks at developmental psychology and what the study of children's language can teach us.

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Zoe Drayson of Bristol University explores the 'embodied' mind and the role of the body and the environment in producing intelligent behaviour.

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The Essay - New Generation Thinkers - Episode 5

Roberto Trotta, an astrophysicist from Imperial College, London, discusses so-called 'dark energy', asking what it might reveal about the place of mankind in the universe.

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