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Michael McIntyre

Atmospheric physicist, Emertitus Professor at Cambridge

Atmospheric physicist and Emertitus Professor at Cambridge, his work has focussed on the hole in the ozone layer and the deepest connections between mathematics and music.

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Atmospheric physicist and Emertitus Professor at Cambridge, his work has focussed on the hole in the ozone layer and the deepest connections between mathematics and music.

Michael McIntyre Videos

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Michael McIntyre,Gabrielle Walker,Philip Ball,Joanna Bailie

Music's Mystery
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Michael McIntyre,Gabrielle Walker,Robert Carter,Richard Corfield

What We Don't Know About CO2
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Michael McIntyre

Lucidity, Science, and Acausality Illusions

Michael McIntyre Articles

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Michael McIntyre

Neuroscience vs Free Will

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Banksy and the Media Barons
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Michelangelo vs Damien Hirst
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Duchamp's Deception
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Truth and Poetry
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The Secrets of the Uncanny
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On Ugliness
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Becoming Human
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Beauty Bites Back
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Music's Mystery
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Life, Beauty and Being
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American Surreal
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Broken Beauty
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Dylan Evans,Julian Spalding,Don Paterson,Janne Teller

The Best is to Come
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What is the Power of Art?
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Daniel Miller,Peter York,Serena Kutchinsky,Helen Croydon

Dying for Dior
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On the Air with Annie Nightingale
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Art and the Artful
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The Good, the Bad and the Artist
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Is Beauty Back?
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The Naked Truth
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The Limits of Art
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Art Couture
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Reinventing Film
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The Emperor's New God
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Of Wonder and Terror
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The Schlock of the New
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The Screen Age
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A Wonder Full World
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Blowing in the Wind
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Time and Tate
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The New Beautiful
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The Art of Activism
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Hitler's Art War
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Taking Over the Gallery
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Yes, It Really is Beautiful!
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Pollock on Pollock Squared
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The Cinema of Ideas
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Abstract Graffiti
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New British Art Double-Bill
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Maps of Mystery
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Six Billion Characters in Search of an Author
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The View From Outside
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Cultures of the Body
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Ben Watson

The Music of Revolt

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