3.6K views · 55 reactions | At this festive time of year, BBC Archive brings you the ghost of Christmas Lectures past. Go science! This year's lectures end today. | BBC Archive | Facebook

Did you enjoy the Christmas Lectures? Maybe you can help us find the #MissingXmasLectures! 📼 Your attic could be hiding some ‘national treasures from a golden age of broadcasting’, as described by Sir David Attenborough and other past Christmas Lecturers. Find out more: rigb.org/christmas-lectures/missing-lectures | Royal Institution of Great Britain

That's a wrap on the 2023 CHRSITMAS LECTURES, supported by CGI in the UK Please join us in giving our Christmas Lecturer, Mike Wooldridge, a HUGE round of applause. Thank you to all who’ve watched over the last three days and joined in with our conversations online. Catch up on tonight's show, or enjoy the whole series again, on iPlayer 👇 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001tv7s/royal-institution-christmas-lectures-2023-professor-mike-wooldridge-the-truth-about-ai-1-how-to-build-an-intell

5.2K views · 85 reactions | The final instalment of our 2023 CHRISTMAS LECTURES, supported by CGI in the UK, is tonight  Join Mike Wooldridge as he explores some of the risks of AI - which are real and which are imagined? Find out tonight on BBC Four & iPlayer from 8pm. | Royal Institution of Great Britain | Facebook

8.5K views · 253 reactions | Happy birthday, Alessandro Volta!  Considering he experimented with electricity by shocking his own eyeballs, we hope he was a bit more gentle with himself when it came to extinguishing birthday candles. | Royal Institution of Great Britain | Facebook

174K views · 3.6K reactions | 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 video from 1985, George Porter tells a brief history of the Ri. | Royal Institution of Great Britain | Facebook