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  1. Economics is for Everyone (2016)

    Subject
    Economics

    Animation. Economist Ha-Joon Chang explains why it is important for everyone to understand basic economics. He clarifies the often mystifying language of derivatives and quantitative easing, and explains how...

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Secret Powers of Time, The (2010)

    Subject
    Psychology

    Audio and video recordings of a lecture given on 25 March 2010 at RSA (the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) by Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at...

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  5. Anthills to Labyrinths - Engineering Sustainable Architecture (2010)

    Subject
    Architecture; Engineering; Environmental science

    Video recording of a talk given at the RSA on 25 November 2010 by environmental engineer, Patrick Bellew, in which he shares his experience of the past twenty years on how high performance buildings are...

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  6. Mathematics in the Real World: from Brain Tumours to Saving Marriages (2009)

    Subject
    Mathematics; Medical sciences; Social Studies

    Video recording of the Bakerian Prize Lecture given by Professor James Murray of Oxford University on 26/3/2009 at the RSA. Practical mathematical models are becoming an accepted part of most medical and...

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  7. What’s Going on Underground? Tunnelling into the Future (2009)

    Subject
    Civil Engineering & Building; Geology

    Video recording of a public lecture given by Professor Robert Mair of Cambridge University at the RSA on 18/2/2009. The talk describes the critical importance of geology and the development and application...

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  8. Physics of the Impossible, The (2009)

    Subject
    Physics

    Video recording of a lecture on the physics of the impossible given by Michio Kaku at the RSA on 28 May 2009, based on his book of the same title. In it he explores the possibility of phenomena such as death...

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  9. How Human Psychology Drives the Economy (2009)

    Subject
    Economics

    Video recording of a lecture given by economist Robert Schiller at the RSA on 21 May 2009. He argues for an active government role in economic policymaking by recovering Keynes’ idea of ‘animal...

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  10. Economic Thinking After the Crunch (2009)

    Subject
    Economics; Politics & government

    Video recording of a lecture given by Shadow Chancellor George Osborne at the RSA on 21 May 2009 in which he discusses the impact of new insights from economics and the social sciences on the Conservative...

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