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  1. RSA - Tomorrow’s Work. Why Yesterday’s Expectations Are Ruining Today’s Future

    RSA Keynote 7th Feb 2013; 18:00 (full recording including audience Q&A)

    Technologist and writer Ben Hammersley explores the role of the internet and digital technologies in today’s workplace.

    As social media, mobile devices, constant communication, online sharing, and open collaboration become the norms in the rest of our lives, the traditional workplace is failing to adapt.

    How do our traditional workplace models conflict with our new internet-driven expectations of how we might live and work to our full potential, and how might companies and organisations learn to adapt in the 21st century?

    Speaker: Ben Hammersley, Prime Minister’s Ambassador to TechCity, contributing editor, Wired UK, innovator in residence, Goldsmiths, University of London and author of ‘64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then’.

    Chair: Matthew Taylor, chief executive, RSA.

    http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2013/tomorrows-work.-why-yesterdays-expectations-are-ruining-todays-future

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  2. RSA - The Scientific Method Of The Mind: What Sherlock Holmes can teach us about decision making

    RSA Thursday 24th Jan 2013; 13:00 (full recording including audience Q&A)

    When we think of the scientific method, we imagine an experimenter in his laboratory following a series of steps that runs something like this: make some observations about a phenomenon; create a hypothesis to explain those observations; design an experiment to test the hypothesis; run the experiment; see if the results match your expectations; rework your hypothesis if you must; lather, rinse, and repeat. Simple seeming enough.

    But how can we go beyond that? Can we train our minds to work like that automatically, all the time, through a mindful, present approach to our everyday thinking and decision making?

    Sherlock Holmes teaches us to do not only that, but to go a step beyond: by using his methodology and applying the mindfulness that has come to characterise the scientific method to our lives, we can learn to optimise not only our own everyday existence but our broader contributions to society and the lives of those around us.

    Speaker: Maria Konnikova, author and columnist

    Chair: Vikki Heywood CBE, RSA Chair

    http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2013/the-scientific-method-of-the-mind-what-sherlock-holmes-can-teach-us-about-decision-making

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  3. Mathematics and Music - lecture by James Stewart

    This talk explored some of the connections and analogies between mathematics and music in an attempt to explain why mathematicians tend to be musical.

    James Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at McMaster University and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. He received the M.S. degree from Stanford University and the Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. His research has been in harmonic analysis and his many books include a widely used series of calculus textbooks, which have been translated into a dozen languages. He was concertmaster of the McMaster Symphony Orchestra for many years and also played professionally in the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. One of his greatest pleasures is playing string quartets

    http://www.maa.org/dist-lecture/past-lectures.html

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  4. LSE Public Lecture - Christ to Coke? How image becomes icon.

    Speaker(s): Professor Martin Kemp Chair: Nick Byrne

    Recorded on 3 November 2011 in Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House.

    Informative, funny, sad, and surprising by turns, this is the first book to look at all the main types of visual icon, taking eleven mega-famous examples, from Christ to the Coke bottle, to see how they arose and how they continue to function. Image, branding, and logos are obsessions of our age. Iconic images dominate the media.

    This event marks the publication of Kemp’s new book Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon.

    Martin Kemp FBA is Emeritus Professor in the History of Art at Trinity College, Oxford University. He has written, broadcast and curated exhibitions on imagery in art and science from the Renaissance to the present day.

    Nick Byrne is Director of the LSE Language Centre and a member of the LSE’s Arts Advisory Group.

    http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1231

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  5. LSE: Public Lectures and Events - The End of Remembering

    Speaker: Joshua Foer

    Chair: Professor Helena Cronin

    This event was recorded on 5 April 2011 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    Once upon a time remembering was everything. Today, we have endless mountains of documents, the Internet and ever-present smart phones to store our memories. As our culture has transformed from one that was fundamentally based on internal memories to one that is fundamentally based on memories stored outside the brain, what are the implications for ourselves and for our society? What does it mean that we’ve lost our memory? Joshua Foer studied evolutionary biology at Yale University and is now a freelance science journalist, writing for the National Geographic and New York Times among others.

    http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm

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  6. LSE: Public Lectures and Events - The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death

    Speaker: Professor John Gray

    Chair: Dr Simon Glendinning

    This event was recorded on 19 February 2011 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century science became the vehicle for an assault on death. The power of knowledge was summoned to free humans of their mortality. Science was used against science and became a channel for faith. John Gray is most recently the acclaimed author of Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, and Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals.

    http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm

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  7. Time Traveler Show 10 — Asimov Speaks!

    Our first Talks in Time features a 1974 lecture by SF Grand Master, Isaac Asimov. This nearly hour long speech has a lively Q A and is still relevent today. Special thanks to the Science Fiction Oral History Association.

    http://www.timetravelershow.com

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  8. Where Good Ideas Come From: Steven Johnson at the LSE

    Steven Johnson has spent twenty years immersed in creative industries, was active at the dawn of the internet and has a unique perspective that draws on his fluency in fields ranging from neurobiology to new media. In his new book, he identifies the key principles to the genesis of great ideas, from the cultivation of hunches to the importance of connectivity and how best to make use of new technologies. By recognising where and how patterns of creativity occur – whether within a school, a software platform or a social movement – he shows how we can make more of our ideas good ones. This event celebrates the publication of his latest book Where Good Ideas Come From: A Natural History of Innovation.

    From: http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm

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  9. Atheists on Religion: AC Grayling and Tim Crane at the LSE

    For the last 150 years or so European philosophers and sociologists have tended to regard religion as just one more pre-scientific myth and superstition that has had its day, and likely to wither on the vine of History. This view, the secularization thesis, seems today to be in poor shape. Not only does there appear to be no sign of withering, still less a clear path of scientific and rational progress, but religion seems to be reviving. Classic atheist criticisms of religion tend today to sound increasingly strident and dogmatic. In this dialogue two of Britain’s leading philosophers who are also convinced atheists will explore the continued attractions of religious belief and its place in a European world whose secular character is itself today in question.

    From http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm

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  10. Reith Lecture 4: The Runaway World

    Astronomer Royal Professor Martin Rees explores the challenges facing science in the 21st century. In his final lecture he urges the UK to stay at the forefront of global scientific research and discovery. And he warns against the dangers of letting technology run away with us. Only if we refocus our energies on the long term, will we save ourselves and our planet.

    From http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/reith

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