Gresham Lectures

The College's 130 annual lectures and events are FREE and open to all. There are now over 2,000 lectures freely available online on their website. You can watch past lectures here. From History to Science, from Art to Maths, the range of lectures is simply breathtaking. Sign up for future lectures here. A sneak peak of what is on offer:

• Neutrino: The Particle That Shouldn’t Exist

• Will Computers Outsmart Mathematicians?

• Great Thinkers: Plato

• The Powers of the Novel

Lots of fascinating free lectures here from the University of Oxford:

The Secret of Mathematics lectures: A series of talks and lectures from Oxford Mathematicians exploring the power and beauty of their subject. These talks would appeal to anyone interested in mathematics and its ever-growing range of applications from medicine to economics and beyond.

Ethics of AI

Bioinformatics at the heart of biology and genomics medicine

Alan Turing on Computability and Intelligence

LSE lectures

A simply superb offering of FREE lectures to attend. The public events podcast series from the London School of Economics and Political Science features more than 200 events every year where some of the world’s leading thinkers can be heard. The podcast is a platform for thought, ideas and lively debate where you can hear from presidents, prime minsters, international business leaders, policy makers and leading academics from all over the world. You can see what is on over the coming weeks here. If you miss it, you can catch up on the video or podcast recordings here. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

To pique your interest:

• Hayekian Behavioural Economics

• Report of the UK Wealth Tax

• Have We Reached The End of the 1951 Refugee Convention?

• How can we end child poverty in the UK?

• Empires Past & Present: the idea of empire

• Bullshit jobs, technology, capitalism

TED talks

Epitomising the spirit of Exponential Minds, TED talks are focussed on the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world. Bringing together some of the world's most inspired thinkers with a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other. The talks are all short and digestible - anywhere from 5-15 mins long - perfect for that bus journey home or that dead time waiting for lunch to end and lessons to begin!

The 25 most popular talks of all time are here.

To pique your interest:

• Why do we tell stories?

• How do you know you aren’t living in a simulation?

• Predictably Irrational brains

• The art of finding common ground