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Colour and Invisibility
Lectures by Dr Philip Ball, a freelance science writer, broadcaster and lecturer who's particularly interested in the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and the wider culture.
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Invisibility: A Cultural History
The stories that we have told about invisibility are not stories of a technical capability but of power, desire, concealment, morality and corruption. What are these old tales of invisibility really… Read more Audio
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Bright Earth: the Invention of Colour
Today we can take our pick of masses of paint colours, but artists of earlier times had to painstakingly make their own pigments. Some were immensely expensive. Unstable ones faded or darkened. Dr… Read more Audio, Gallery
Bright Earth: the Invention of Colour