The Bristol Festival of Ideas

Now in its seventh year, the Bristol Festival of Ideas – in association with the Observer – brings together economists, writers, scientists and campaigners to discuss the problems facing a globalised world, and propose radical solutionsAs a young schoolboy in Bristol, Peter Higgs was so inspired by the life and work of the Nobel prize-winning Paul Dirac that he pursued a career in physics. Decades later Higgs is the focus of worldwide attention as the Large Hadron Collider seeks to prove wh...

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