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RSA Animate – The Secret Powers of Time

24 May 2010

In this ten-minute RSA Animate, Professor Philip Zimbardo reveals how our individual perspective on time affects our work, health and well-being.

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RSA Animate – The Empathic Civilisation

10 May 2010

In this lively animation, Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.

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RSA Animate – Drive

1 Apr 2010

This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink’s talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.

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RSA Animate – Smile or Die

17 Mar 2010

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

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RSA Animate – Superfreakonomics

2 Feb 2010

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 re-evaluating the evidence.

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Drive

27 Jan 2010

Daniel Pink provides concrete examples of how intrinsic motivation functions both at home and in the workplace.

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RSA Animate – Left brain, right brain

22 Jan 2010

This RSA Animate based on Matthew Taylor’s lecture on the area explores how brain and behaviour research is increasingly being incorporated into political and policy debate.

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RSA Animate – The Economic Consequences of Mr Brown

21 Dec 2009

In the first of the RSA’s new animation series Stein Ringen, gives his assessment of the New Labour government and the state of the British constitution.