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A 2007 runner-up with judge, Dr Roger Highfield

Winners of the 2006 Challenge

The 2008 Challenge Questions:

Submissions are now closed, but you may still view the seminars below.

Dr Phillip Campbell

Editor-in-Chief of Nature

Should healthy people take drugs to enhance their cognitive abilities?

Talk Slides - [ppt] [pdf]

Podcast - [Realplayer stream]

Sir Brian Hoskins

Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College

To what extent is geoengineering the solution to the climate change problem?

Talk Slides - [ppt] [pdf]

Podcast - [Realplayer stream]

Dr Paul Snaith

VP Shell Global Solutions

Satisfying the world's spiralling energy demands whilst reducing greenhouse gas emissions presents today's scientists with a seemingly impossible task. Discuss.

Talk Slides - [ppt] [pdf]

Podcast - [Realplayer stream]

Sir Richard Sykes

Rector of Imperial College

How would knowledge of my genetic makeup affect my lifestyle?

Podcast - [Realplayer stream]

Prof Lord Robert Winston

President of Science and Society at Imperial College

Ever since early humans invented the handaxe, technology has increased the potential to destroy mankind. Are we sowing the seeds of our own destruction?

Podcast - [Realplayer stream] (First hour only)

Stoic TV interview - [view]