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RSA Animate 

RSA Animate - Bringing discourse to life

 

Are we really as altruistic as we might like to think? In the RSA's new animation series, we put into pictures Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's case for reevaluating the evidence.

Nicholas Christakis

Nicholas Christakis - Connected

16 Mar 2010
Nicholas Christakis is a social scientist.

Richard Curtis

Panel discussion - The Robin Hood Tax

09 Mar 2010
With Jeffrey Sachs, Alan Beattie, Richard Curtis, Bill Nighy, Clare Melamed and Major Ivor Telfer

Rebecca Goldstein

Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker - Reason, Fiction and Faith

05 Mar 2010
Rebecca Goldstein is a philosophical novelist and Steven Pinker is a cognitive theorist.

W.G. Runciman

W.G. Runciman - Visions of the Good Society

04 Mar 2010
W.G. Runciman is a fellow of Trinity College Cambridge and an author.

Robin Dunbar

Robin Dunbar - How Many Friends Does One Person Need?

18 Feb 2010
Robin Dunbar is a renowned evolutionary anthropologist.

Lord Bingham

Lord Bingham - The Rule of Law

11 Feb 2010
Lord Bingham is one of the most influential judges of the 20th century.

David Halpern

David Halpern - The Hidden Wealth of Nations

08 Feb 2010
David Halpern is Director of Research at the Institute for Government.

Desmond Tutu

Archbishop Desmond Tutu - The Importance of Inclusion to the London 2012 legacy

04 Feb 2010
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is a Nobel Peace Laureate, and one of the greatest living moral icons of our time.

John Lanchester

John Lanchester - Whoops!

04 Feb 2010
John Lanchester is an author and journalist.

David Willetts MP

David Willetts MP - The Pinch

03 Feb 2010
David Willetts MP is the Shadow Secretary of State for Universities and Skills

Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier - You Are Not A Gadget

01 Feb 2010
Jaron Lanier is a philosopher, digital guru and architect of Virtual Reality.

Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard - The Art of Meditation

01 Feb 2010
Matthieu Ricard is a philosopher.

Jack Straw MP

Jack Straw MP - A National Victims' Service

27 Jan 2010
Jack Straw MP is the Justice Secretary

Dan Pink

Dan Pink - Drive

27 Jan 2010
Dan Pink is the author of a number of provocative bestselling books on the changing world of work.

Professor Patrick Haggard

Panel discussion - The Anatomy of an Action

25 Jan 2010
With Professor Patrick Haggard, A.C. Grayling, Barry Smith, Anil Seth

Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand - Whole Earth Discipline

19 Jan 2010
Stewart Brand is iconoclastic ecologist and futurist

Tom Chatfield

Tom Chatfield - Fun Inc

13 Jan 2010
Journalist and author Tom Chatfield visits the RSA to examine the possibilities of virtual game worlds

Chris Rudge

Panel discussion - Living by Giving

12 Jan 2010
With Chris Rudge, A C Grayling and Professor James Neuberger

Barbara Ehrenrich

Barbara Ehrenreich - Smile or Die

11 Jan 2010
Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking.

Ben Schott

Ben Schott - Re-Views the Year: 2009

10 Dec 2009
Ben Schott is the author of Schott's Miscellanies and Almanacs

Tzvetan Todorov

Tzvetan Todorov - In Defence of the Enlightenment

03 Dec 2009
Tzvetan Todorov is a philosopher

Joel Waldfogel

Professor Joel Waldfogel - Scroogenomics

03 Dec 2009
Joel Waldfogel isEhrenkranz Family Professor in the Business and Public Policy Department at the Wharton School.

Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Zizek - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

24 Nov 2009
Slavoj Zizek is a philosopher and author.

Kevin Slavin

Kevin Slavin - Playing the City

18 Nov 2009
Kevin Slavin is a games designer and co-founder of Area/Code

Dr Rowan Williams

Dr Rowan Williams - New Perspectives on Faith and Development

12 Nov 2009
Dr Rowan Williams is the Archbishop of Canterbury

Sir John Rose

Sir John Rose - Creating a High-Value Economy

10 Nov 2009
Sir John Rose is the chief executive of Rolls Royce

Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt

Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner - SuperFreakonomics

10 Nov 2009
Steven Levitt is an economist and Stephen Dubner is a journalist.

Cameron Sinclair

Cameron Sinclair - Sustainability As A Matter of Survival: 10 Years of Architecture for Humanity

09 Nov 2009
Cameron Sinclair is the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity

Mary Elise Sarotte

Panel Discussion - The Fall of the Berlin Wall: 20 years on

05 Nov 2009
With Mary Elise Sarotte, Peter Millar and Thomas Kielinger. Chair: James Robbins.

John Houghton

Panel discussion - Towards a Sustainable Environment - What can faith teach us?

04 Nov 2009
With Satish Kumar, Professor Sir John Houghton, Mark Dowd and Andy Atkins

Alan Johnson MP - Home Secretary

Alan Johnson MP - Security in the 21st Century: Global, National, Local

02 Nov 2009
Alan Johnson MP is the Home Secretary

Matthew Taylor - left brain, right brain

Matthew Taylor - Left Brain, Right Brain: Human nature and political values

29 Oct 2009
Matthew Taylor is the chief executive of the RSA

Robert Rowland Smith

Robert Rowland Smith - Breakfast with Socrates

29 Oct 2009
Robert Rowland Smith is a consultant, writer and lecturer on philosophy.

David Blanchflower

David Blanchflower - Lost Generation? Recession and the Young

26 Oct 2009
With Stephen Timms MP, David Willetts MP, Wes Streeting, Miles Templeman, Terry Ryall and Jack Grimston

John Denham MP

John Denham MP - Making Local the Answer

21 Oct 2009
John Denham MP is the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.

Douglas Alexander

Panel Discussion - Health and Education: Where faith fits?

20 Oct 2009
With Douglas Alexander, Matthew Frost, Richard Dowden, Ian Linden.

Robin Alexander

Panel discussion - The Condition and Future of Primary Education

19 Oct 2009
Robin Alexander, Mick Brookes, Professor Mary James, Roger Luxton, Barry Sheerman MP, Dame Gillian Pugh.

Madeleine Bunting

Madeleine Bunting - Place, Identity and Community: A history of the plot

15 Oct 2009
Madeleine Bunting is a columnist for the Guardian

Otto von Busch

Panel discussion - Hacking Design

14 Oct 2009
Otto von Busch runs Self_Passage, he is a haute couture heretic and fashion renegade hacking the operating system of fashion.

Michael Sandel

Michael Sandel - Justice: What's the right thing to do?

13 Oct 2009
Michael Sandel is Harvard Professor of Government and 2009 Reith Lecturer.

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