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  1. 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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  2. 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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