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Ann Pettifor is a director of PRIME, an economic think-tank, and a Fellow of the New Economics Foundation. She has won wide acclaim for her work in...

World-renowned physicist Professor Anton Zeilinger entertained and informed a UCT audience about quantum physics during his Vice-Chancellor's Open ...

First part of a trilogy on Jock Stein, Bill Shankly and Sir Matt Busby. The programme looks at the early careers of these football heroes who were ...

Anthony Giddens introduces a range of new concepts and proposals designed to address the most formidable challenge humanity faces this century.

Li...

Dr. Seth Lloyd, an MIT professor and self-described "quantum mechanic," describes the quantum mechanics behind time travel during a guest lecture a...

Metamorphose

M.C. Escher (Maurits Cornelis)

Documentary

Mary Mellor, a leading figure in developing alternative models of money, finance and economic development, outlines how we could use money to creat...

Accessible from http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk...

First clip:

"It may be that others are interested ...

PHSC 13400: Global Warming David Archer, Professor in Geophysical Sciences "Scope of the Class" September 30, 2009. This 10-week course for non-sci...

Experts on child welfare policy discuss the gap between Black and White children in the welfare system. They attempt to answer questions that have ...

Paul Krugman, David Rosenberg team up against Lawrence Summers, Ian Bremmer to debate the future economic picture.

Munk Debates

Footage of the Science Museum Live on Tour theatre show. Travelling throughout the UK in 2012 this high-energy show will propel you through the spe...

David Malone is better known for making acclaimed science documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4. His BBC documentary 'High Anxieties- The Mathema...

From BBC2:

"Philosopher Roger Scruton presents a provocative essay on the importance of beauty in the arts and in our lives.

In the 20th century...

An interesting discussion between two great philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century, exploring topics such as truth, meaning and refere...

The 2006 Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy at the University of Chicago Law School.

Richard Rorty (1931-2007) developed a distinctive and contro...

The Great Debate

On November 6th, 2010 a panel of renowned scientists, philosophers, and public intellectuals gathered to discuss what impact evol...

The Beatles Tribute

The last lecture of the Harvard cycle.

The sole purpose if this video is to bring attention to good music which might be going unnoticed. I receive no monetary gain whatsoever as a resul...

This is one of several lectures that Jorge Luis Borges delivered at Harvard University in the fall of 1967 and spring of 1968.

http://www.ted.com Sharing the results of a massive, worldwide study, geneticist Svante Pääbo shows the DNA proof that early humans mated with Nean...

*Dr Iain McGilchrist*, author of "The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and The Making of the Western World", puts our society on the couc...

1974 remake of the 1931 classic. Starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.

Space Clamps are a rock band. Space Clamps will rock. Space Clamps.

http://spaceclamps.bandcamp...

The Art of Fugue or The Art of the Fugue (original German: Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV 1080, is an incomplete masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach (1...

http://www.ted.com Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran outlines the fascinating functions of mirror neurons. Only recently discovered, these neur...

Poetry course with Michael Braziller & Marie Ponsot

Alain Robbe-Grillet has given a lecture at San Francisco University in April 1989.

In this new RSAnimate, renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our 'divided brain' has profoundly altered human behaviour, c...

I went to one of my nephews game my brother invited me to come. So i went and i thought, "hey maybe I'll get my camera just for fun." Boy was i gl...

Why is it that great works of art seem to have a universal appeal, transcending cultural and geographic boundaries? V.S. Ramachandran, director of ...

http://www.ted.com Days before this talk, journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BP's r...

About this Event

23 Feb 2010 @ 12:45

The Politics of Climate Change

About the speech:

Lord Anthony Giddens will present his recently published b...

A preview from cosmologist and mathematician Bernard Carr's talk held at the October Gallery in London on the 14th May 2011. The talk is part of '...

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http://thesciencenetwork.org

V.S. Ramachandran is Director ...

The Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) 2nd International Conference in Ponta Delgada, Azores. July 7-12, 2009. Topics include cosmology, astr...

George Steiner on the necessity of memorizing important texts for the preservation of civilization.

Shakespeare's Sonnet 30:

"When to the sessio...

James Le Fanu gave a lecture at the Workshop in memory of Professor Mariano Artigas, organized by the Thomas More Institute and the Research Group ...

In his provocative book, The Googlization of Everything, Siva Vaidhyanathan examines both his disenchantment with, and his approval of, changes in ...

Martin Jacques argues that we are moving into an era of contested modernity, where the central player in this new world will be China.

http://www.ted.com Speaking at a TED Salon in London, economist Martin Jacques asks: How do we in the West make sense of China and its phenomenal r...

Short video from the ONS looking at population ageing across the UK and EU from 1985 through to 2035.

It shows the average age of the population a...

Triumph of the City: how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier and happier

Speaker: Professor Edward Glaeser

Chair: P...

Professor Glaeser is one of the world's foremost economists. A wide-ranging thinker, he is particularly noted for his leading work on economic geo...

Social Psychology Lecture by Matthew Lieberman, Ph.D.

Recorded at UCLA on 11.03.09

Lecture 10 of the 17 part Fall 2009 series

(Psych 135)

The best manutd comeback.