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It's our birthday! 🎂 The Royal Institution was founded on this day in 1799 for "the teaching by courses of Philosophical Lectures and Experiments, the application of Science to the Common Purposes of Life". In this 1985 video, George Porter shows us Faraday's lab, which you can still visit today

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Royal Institution
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How we wish Bluesky let us upload videos over 60s! Here's a link to the full video, it's right at the beginning of episode one of the 1985 Christmas Lectures: www.rigb.org/explore-scie... On our end, the media player is looking tiny - we flagged this to our website team. Full-screen is working!

rigb.orgCommunicating – No man is an island (1985)In his first lecture, David Pye introduces us to the many different ways we, humans, have devised through the course of the y