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Rsa Animate: Language As a Window into Human Nature (2011)

Subject

Psychiatry; Psychology

In this RSA Animate, Steven Pinker explains how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings. Th transcript of this talk can be downloaded as a pdf file. [11 minutes]

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Laurie Johnson (2015 Audio)

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Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory

Podcast series in which Dr Neema Parvini, author of Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, interviews...

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Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare’s World: Rethinking Female Adolescence (2022 Video)

Recording of an online presentation by Professor Caroline Bicks (University of Maine) delivered for the Festival Shakespeare Buenos Aires. After the lecture there is a Q&A session for the final 20 minutes of...

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Intelligence Isn’t Black & White - There Are Actually 8 Different Kinds (2016)

Subject

Education; Psychology

What does it mean when someone calls you smart or intelligent? According to developmental psychologist Howard Gardner, it could mean one eight things. In this video interview, Dr. Gardner, Professor of...

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Rsa Animate: The Divided Brain (2011)

Subject

Psychiatry; Psychology

Short animation summarising a lecture given by psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist as part of the RSA’s public events programme in which he explains how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered...

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Lyne Raphael (2015 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory

Podcast series in which Dr Neema Parvini, author of Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, interviews...

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Being Human in a Digital Age (2015)

Subject

Technology

Video webcast. What can humans do that machines will not soon be doing too? In this event, author Tom Chatfield explains why he believes this is the wrong question to ask - and we should look instead at what...

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Reith Lectures 2003, The Emerging Mind - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran (2006)

Subject

Medical sciences; Psychiatry; Psychology

This year’s Reith lecturer is the neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition at the University of California (San Diego). The five lectures study neurological...

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Charlie Rose Science Series, The (2007)

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), $24.95 each

The Charlie Rose Science Series is a continuing series broadcast on PBS throughout the US which explores the advances being made in biomedical research, their contribution to our understanding of the world...

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