Festivals: Festival of Ideas
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Natasha Mitchell: You are not your brain scan!
Natasha Mitchell
The study of the brain has attracted extraordinary public interest in recent years, partly driven by major scientific breakthroughs in...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Networks: How They Change Our Thinking. Paul Ormerod
The intellectual basis of almost all social and economic policy in the West over the past 60 years has been that of the rational decision...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
New drugs and new ways to think about them. Olivia Carter
Whether drugs are being used for medication, enhancement or pure recreation, concern focuses on the risks of side effects and unforeseen...
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CULTURE
Bats, Birds, Bugs and Us. Peter Doherty
Peter Doherty
Hendra, Nipah, Ebola, Marburg, SARS – names that are variously familiar to all of us. What links them in our minds is the idea of scary,...
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ENVIRONMENT
A New Politics for a New Century. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
"To win, Nordhaus and Shellenberger persuasively argue, environmentalists must stop congratulating themselves for their own willingness to...
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SOCIETY
The Case for Perfection. Julian Savulescu
The current possibilities for using genetics and other biotechnologies to enhance human cognitive and physical performance are real and...
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CULTURE
The Genetic Revolution: Food and Power
Does the genetic revolution open the way to feeding the world and providing it with safe, renewable sources of energy and power? Are...
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CULTURE
Genes, technology and the evolution of culture. Matt Ridley
Award-winning zoologist, science writer and author Dr Matt Ridley (UK) delivers the keynote address at the University of Melbourne's...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
The origins of life. Antonio Lazcano (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 Speaking to the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Antonio Lazcano speaks about the topic he's been pursuing for the best part...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
The origins of life. Antonio Lazcano
Antonio Lazcano
Part 1 | Part 2 Speaking to the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Antonio Lazcano speaks about the topic he's been pursuing for the best part...
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SOCIETY
Fran Baum: Is capitalism good for our health?
Fran Baum
In this talk at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, health researcher and WHO Commissioner Professor Fran Baum discusses the determining...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Choose Your Poison: The role and regulation of drugs (p3)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3In this Adelaide Festival of Ideas session, the topic is drugs. Legal and illegal, for therapy, pleasure or profit...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Choose Your Poison: The role and regulation of drugs (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3In this Adelaide Festival of Ideas session, the topic is drugs. Legal or illegal, for therapy, pleasure or profit,...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Choose Your Poison: The role and regulation of drugs
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3In this Adelaide Festival of Ideas session, the topic is drugs. Legal and illegal, for therapy, pleasure or profit...
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CULTURE
Raimond Gaita: Shame
Raimond Gaita
In this thoughtful contribution to the Adelaide Festival of Ideas session about the notion of shame in society, Raimond Gaita sketches the...
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CULTURE
Bruce Petty, Peter Shergold and Satyajit Das on greed and the economy (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2Featuring satirist and cartoonist Bruce Petty, former Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Peter...
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ECONOMICS
Bruce Petty, Peter Shergold and Satyajit Das on greed and the economy
Part 1 | Part 2Featuring satirist and cartoonist Bruce Petty, former Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Peter...
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ENVIRONMENT
Kate Grenville: Writers in a time of change (Part 2)
Part 1 | Part 2In this keynote address to the Festival of Ideas (University of Melbourne), Kate Grenville addresses the role of artists and...
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ENVIRONMENT
Kate Grenville: Writers in a time of change
Kate Grenville
Part 1 | Part 2In this keynote address to the Festival of Ideas (University of Melbourne), Kate Grenville addresses the role of artists and...
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MEDIA
Sex, knowledge and society: Is science gendered? Hosted by Natasha Mitchell (p3)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 For most of us, it is reassuring to think that scientific knowledge has some absolute quality of truth, something...
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