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RSA Animate – The Truth About Dishonesty

14 Sep 2012

In this RSA Animate, Dan Ariely explores the circumstances under which someone would lie and what effect deception has on society at large.

Past RSA Journals

Autumn 2012

13 Sep 2012

Zygmunt Bauman argues that Europe needs a new collective identity, Matthew Taylor for a more experimental form of policymaking and Kwasi Kwarteng for politicians to be more honest with the electorate.

Past RSA Journals

Summer 2012

14 Jun 2012

Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel on how technology, the move of global goods and people are changing how we live and work and Tamara Erickson on how the Millennial generation are responding.

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RSA Animate – The Power of Networks

22 May 2012

In this RSA Animate, Manuel Lima explores the power of network visualisation to navigate our complex modern world.

Past RSA Journals

Spring 2012

4 Apr 2012

Exploring some of the darker issues of life, Dr Kathryn Taylor argues that in order to understand cruelty, we need to do more to examine its nature, while Jake Arnott examines how our perceptions of crime are shaped by fiction.

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Winner: RSA / Nominet Trust Short Film Competition: Food Rules for Healthy People and Planet

8 Feb 2012

Award-winning food writer Michael Pollan shows how we can become more mindful of what we eat, and how we can make food choices that are better for ourselves and our environment.

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Runner-up: RSA / Nominet Trust Short Film Competition: Food Rules for Healthy People and Planet

8 Feb 2012

This film came second in the RSA / Nominet Trust Film Competition Award 2012. It was from this competition that the RSA Shorts series was born.

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RSA Animate – The Divided Brain

24 Oct 2011

Renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society.

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RSA Animate – Choice

30 Jun 2011

Professor Renata Salecl explores the paralysing anxiety and dissatisfaction surrounding limitless choice. Does the freedom to be the architects of our own lives actually hinder rather than help us?

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RSA Animate – The Internet in Society

22 Mar 2011

Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely emancipatory role in global politics.