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  1. RSA - Religion for Atheists

    Has the endless debate between believers and non-believers finally hit a brick wall? Are secularists in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater when they reject religion and its trappings, or is it possible for non-believers to find consolation and beauty in ritual and tradition too?

    Renowned philosopher Alain de Botton argues that despite the falsity of supernatural claims of religion, they still have very important things to teach the secular world.

    Rather than mocking or deriding religions, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from them - because they’re packed with good ideas on how to live and arrange our societies. De Botton proposes that we should look to the religious tradition for insights into how to build a sense of community, make our relationships last, get more out of art, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, and much more.

    Chair: Matthew Taylor, chief executive, RSA.

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    http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2012/religion-for-atheists

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  2. RSA - Maonomics

    The end of the cold war was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over Communism.

    In her new book ‘Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do’, economist and best-selling author Loretta Napoleoni argues just the opposite: what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory of “communism with a profit motive”.

    Loretta Napoleoni visits the RSA to chart the prodigious ascent of the Chinese economic miracle and the parallel course of the West’s ongoing insistence on misconstruing China and its economy even as we acknowledge its growing influence and importance, and the shifting balance of power in the world from West to East.

    Speaker: Loretta Napoleoni, economist and author of ‘Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do’.

    Chair: Sean O’Grady, Economics Editor, The Independent

    See what people said on Twitter: #RSAMaonomics

    http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2012/maonomics

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  3. RSA - Imagine: How creativity works

    Shattering the myth of creative ‘types’, bestselling journalist and author Jonah Lehrer shows how new research is deepening our understanding of the human imagination, and considers how this new science can make us happier, our neighbourhoods more vibrant, companies more productive and schools more effective.

    Chair: Ben Hammersley, technologist, writer and broadcaster.

    See what people said on Twitter: #RSALehrer

    http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2012/imagine-how-creativity-works

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  4. RSA - The Geek Manifesto: Why science matters

    There has never been a better time to be a geek. What was once an insult used to marginalize the curious has become a badge of honour. People who care about science have stopped apologizing for their interests, and are gaining the political confidence to stand up for them instead.

    Whether we want to improve education or cut crime, to enhance healthcare or generate clean energy, we need the experimental methods of science - the best tool humanity has yet developed for working out what works. Yet from the way we’re governed to the news we’re fed by the media, we’re let down by a lack of understanding and respect for its insights and evidence.

    Leading science communicator Mark Henderson, visits the RSA to explain why and how we need to entrench scientific thinking more deeply into public life. With over a decade of experience as the science correspondent for the Times, Henderson has seen it all, and plans to gather a new agenda-setting movement and turn it into a force our leaders cannot ignore.

    Chair: Alice Bell, senior teaching fellow in science and public policy, Imperial College London.

    See what people said on Twitter: #RSAgeek

    http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2012/the-geek-manifesto-why-science-matters

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  5. RSA - Subliminal: The new unconscious and what it teaches us about ourselves

    What do we really know about ourselves?

    Leonard Mlodinow, best-selling author of ‘The Drunkard’s Walk’, visits the RSA to examine how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world, and how we often misperceive everything from our relationships with family, friends and business associates, the reasons for our investment decisions, to our own past.

    Our preference in politicians, the amount of tip we give - all our judgements and perceptions reflect the workings of our mind on two levels, the conscious, of which we are aware, and the unconscious, which is hidden from us.

    The latter has long been the subject of speculation, but over the past two decades scientific researchers have developed remarkable new tools for probing the hidden, or subliminal, workings of the mind. The result of this explosion of research is a new science of the unconscious, and a sea change in our understanding of how the mind affects the way we live.

    http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2012/subliminal-the-new-unconscious-and-what-it-teaches-us-about-ourselves

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