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SlowTV: James Hansen: Looking for real solutions after Copenhagen
James Hansen | Sydney | Mar. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 James Hansen is known as the 'grandfather of climate change' and is perhaps the world's leading authority on the science of climate change. He is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s E... » play video -
SlowTV: The origin of the universe and the arrow of time. Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll | Sydney | Dec. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 Speaking at the University of Sydney, acclaimed physicist and cosmologist Sean Carroll gives an entertaining and thought-provoking talk about the nature of time, the origin of entropy and how what happened before the Big Bang might be responsible for the arrow of time we observe toda... » play video -
SlowTV: Key Thinkers: Kurt Gödel and the limits of mathematics. Mark Colyvan
Mark Colyvan | Sydney | Nov. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 In this Key Thinkers (Sydney Ideas) presentation, Professor Mark Colyvan, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, discusses the ideas of Kurt Gödel. Kurt Gödel was one of the foremost mathematicians and logicians of the 20th century... » play video -
SlowTV: Key Thinkers: Jeffrey Riegel on Confucius
Jeffrey Riegel | Sydney | Nov. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 In his Key Thinkers (Sydney Ideas) lecture, Professor Jeffrey Riegel looks at the life, work and reputation of Confucius. Confucius (traditional dates 551-479 BCE) lived during the waning years of the Zhou dynasty. He was deeply troubled by the disorder of his age and took it upon hi... » play video -
SlowTV: Obesity: Is the food industry more problem or solution?
Derek Yach | Sydney | Oct. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Food companies have contributed to the development of a food system that now provides adequate and safe food to billions of people worldwide. However nutrition crises related to over- and under- nutrition remain common. This debate involving nutritionist Dr Rosemary Stanto... » play video -
SlowTV: Key Thinkers: Helen Irving on Mary Wollstonecraft
Helen Irving | Sydney | Oct. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 In this Key Thinkers lecture (Sydney Ideas), Professor Helen Irving looks at the life and work of Mary Wollstonecraft. Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the first theorist systematically to give voice to what we now call feminism. Her Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) was a radi... » play video -
SlowTV: Getting China right. Michael Wesley
Michael Wesley | Sydney | Oct. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 Speaking at Sydney Ideas, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute Michael Wesley examines the place of China in today's world and particular in relation to Australia.Our prosperity demands that we pay attention to China's economic wishes, but this will also inevitably lead t... » play video -
SlowTV: Water Dreamers: How water and silence made Australia. Michael Cathcart
Michael Cathcart | Sydney | Sep. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2Australian settlers found themselves confronted by a ‘death-like silence’ which refused to yield to their colonial ambitions. The land was too dry. In his lecture for Sydney Ideas, historian (and broadcaster) Michael Cathcart argues that this experience of silence produced a melan... » play video -
SlowTV: Key Thinkers: David Goodman on Mao Zedong
David Goodman | Sydney | Sep. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2Mao Zedong (1893-1976) is the controversial figure best known as the founder of the People’s Republic of China. He led the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 until his death and was a revolutionary, a guerrilla leader, a political and military strategist and icon for post-modern art.... » play video -
SlowTV: Reshaping global economic geography. Truman Packard
Truman Packard | Sydney | Aug. 2009
Presenting the findings of the World Bank Development Report which he co-authored, Senior Economist Dr Truman Packard looks at the geography of economic development and how spatial factors affect development potential."Trying to spread out economic activity can hinder growth and does little to f... » play video
