Democracy in the human world can be a messy and acrimonious business, but in the bee world, a little waggle dance can help you get all the votes you need.
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Nature’s Secret: Why Honey Bees Are Better Politicians Than Humans : Krulwich Wonders⦠: NPR
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Point of Inquiry — George Lakoff
George Lakoff is a cognitive linguist at the University of California at Berkeley. But unlike many of his scientific peers, he’s known as much for his work on politics as for his research.
Lakoff the famed author of many books on why the left and right disagree about politics, including Moral Politics, Don’t Think of an Elephant, Thinking Points, and most recently, The Political Mind: Why You Can’t Understand 21st Century Politics with an 18th Century Brain.
Throughout these works Lakoff has applied cognitive and linguistic analysis to our political rifts, and his ideas about "framing," "metaphor," and the different moral systems of liberals and conservatives have become very widely known and influential.
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Andy Carvin and Twitter’s New Journalism
February 25, 2011 Twitter and Facebook have been conduits of information throughout the protests in the Arab world. But that news has been atomized, second by second accounts coming from hundreds of unknown sources. Into that relentless stream has stepped NPR’s Andy Carvin, who’s become a one-stop clearinghouse of news by vetting sources and trying to verify individual tweets. Carvin explains how Twitter’s political utility has also created a new kind of journalism.
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Politics, Power, Cities: Enrique Peñalosa at the LSE
Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá and one of the world’s most challenging urban thinkers, describes the urgent need for governments to create socially inclusive and well-designed transport systems, public spaces and cities. Addressing mobility, public space, equity, quality of life and social inclusion, Peñalosa will propose that inequality and exclusion are the main causes of the problems that affect cities in developing countries, particularly issues relating to mobility and sustainability. Enrique Peñalosa was mayor of Bogotá, 1998-2001, and now acts as a consultant on urban vision. His advisory work concentrates on sustainability, mobility, equity, public space and quality of life.
From http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm
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The Engage Show 19: Futurama with Special Guests JESS3
For our leadoff podcast of the new year, we invited our friends Jesse Thomas and Leslie Bradshaw from JESS3 on to discuss the big trends in tech in 2010 and ventured some predictions on the new innovations we’d see in 2011.
JESS3′s portfolio includes work for Facebook, Google, NASA, Nike, Samsung, and MTV. Follow them everywhere @JESS3 — starting on Facebook and Twitter.
Here are just a few of the stories we discussed in this free-flowing look into the future:
Vegas hotels using Twitter clout to decide who get rooms Where’s my flying car? The future that wasn’t. Feltron Annual Report Will self-driving cars revolutionize traffic?
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Niall Ferguson: Empires on the Edge of Chaos
The Centre for Independent Studies 2010 John Bonython Lecture with Niall Ferguson. Is the rise and fall of empires cyclical or arrhythmic? How does economic profligacy - whether the result of arrogance or naivety - contribute to the downfall of civilisations? Today Professor Ferguson will argue that great powers or empires are in the strict sense of the word, complex systems. Made up of very large numbers of interacting components that are quite asymmetrically organised. In other words, he continues, their construction more resembles a termite hill than an Egyptian pyramid. They operate somewhere between order and disorder. Moreover imperial falls are nearly always associated with fiscal crises, when there are dramatic imbalances between revenues and expenditures. Thus alarm bells should be ringing in Washington DC but what does that for mean for Australia?
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Predictioneer: How to predict the future with game-theory
Speaker: Professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Professor of Politics at NYU and Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Chair: Professor Richard Steinberg
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Why Rousseau Matters
Professor Chris Bertram’s inaugural professorial lecture, on the importance of the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Chris Bertram "on the subject of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his continued relevance to modern society and political philosophy." From http://crookedtimber.org/2009/07/03/rousseau-podcast/
part of the "Philosophy at Bristol" series http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/blog/
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