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  • RSA Shorts - How Cooking Can Change Your Life
    RSA Shorts - How Cooking Can Change Your Life Can you really have your cake and eat it? According to Michael Pollan, you can. In this fun RSA Short, Pollan explains how to eat well by following one simple rule without the need for fad diets or deprivation.

    Michael Pollan is an award-winning food writer whose books include, "Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation", "In Defense of Food" and "The Omnivore's Dilemma"
    Credits:
    Voice: Michael Pollan
    A Damn Fine Media Production - http://www.damnfinemedia.co.uk
    Illustrations: Kerry Hyndman


    Watch Michael Pollan's full talk 'How cooking can change your life' in full at the RSA: http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2013/how-cooking-can-change-your-life

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  • RSA Shorts - The Power of Empathy
    RSA Shorts - The Power of Empathy What is the best way to ease someone's pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities.

    Voice: Dr Brené Brown
    Animation: Katy Davis (AKA Gobblynne) www.gobblynne.com

    Watch Dr Brené Brown's full talk 'The Power of Vulnerability' here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXSjc-pbXk4

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  • RSA Animate - Smile or Die
    RSA Animate - Smile or Die Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking.
    Watch the full lecture here: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/archive/barbara-ehrenrich-smile-or-die

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  • RSA Animate - Superfreakonomics
    RSA Animate - Superfreakonomics 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.
    Watch the full lecture here: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/archive/steven-levitt-and-stephen-dubner-superfreakonomics

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  • RSA Animate - Left Brain, Right Brain
    RSA Animate - Left Brain, Right Brain In this early RSA Animate Matthew Taylor explores how brain and behaviour research is increasingly being incorporated into political and policy debate.
    Watch the full lecture here: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/archive/matthew-taylor---left-brain,-right-brain-human-nature-and-political-values

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  • RSA Animate - The Economic Consequences of Mr Brown
    RSA Animate - The Economic Consequences of Mr Brown On 14 September 2009, Stein Ringen, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Oxford, gave his assessment of the New Labour government and the state of the British constitution. In the first of the RSA's new animation series, visual scribe Andrew Park presents his interpretation of the event.
    Watch the full lecture here: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/archive/stein-ringen---the-economic-consequences-of-mr-brown

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  • Anna Minton - The psychology of place
    Anna Minton - The psychology of place Emily Campbell speaks to Anna Minton about how the economic landscape plays out on the built environment and the role of architects in developing a common good vision of the city.
  • RSA Animate - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
    RSA Animate - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce In this short RSA Animate, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek investigates the surprising ethical implications of charitable giving.
    Watch the full lecture here: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/archive/slavoj-zizek-first-as-tragedy,-then-as-farce

    This was taken from the RSA's free public events programme. The RSA is a 258 year-old charity devoted to creating social progress and spreading world-changing ideas. For more information about our research, RSA Animates, free events programme and 27,000 strong fellowship.
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  • RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism
    RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism In this RSA Animate, celebrated academic David Harvey looks beyond capitalism towards a new social order. Can we find a more responsible, just, and humane economic system?
    Watch the full lecture here: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/archive/david-harvey-the-crises-of-capitalism

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  • RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time
    RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time Renowned psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo explains how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being.
    Watch the full lecture here: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/archive/philip-zimbardo-the-secret-powers-of-time

    This RSA Animate was taken from a lecture given as part of the RSA's free public events programme. The RSA is an Enlightenment-founded charity, and is dedicated to driving social change and spreading world-changing ideas.
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  • RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation
    RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society. Taken from a lecture given by Jeremy Rifkin as part of the RSA's free public events programme.
    Watch the full lecture here: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/archive/jeremy-rifkin-the-empathic-civilisation

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  • RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
    RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us 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.
    Watch the full lecture here: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/vision-videos/the-surprising-truth-about-moving-others

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  • RSA Animate - The Paradox of Choice
    RSA Animate - The Paradox of Choice In this new RSA Animate, 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? Does our preoccupation with choosing and consuming actually obstruct social change?
    View the full lecture here: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/archive/renata-salecl-the-paradox-of-choice

    Taken from the RSA's free public events programme www.thersa.org/events. The RSA was established in the heart of the Enlightenment, and is dedicated to driving social progress and spreading world-changing ideas.

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  • RSA Animate - The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?
    RSA Animate - The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens? Does the internet actually inhibit, rather than encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate adapted from a talk given in 2009, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on 'cyber-utopianism' - the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely emancipatory role in global politics.
    Watch the full lecture here: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/archive/evgeny-morozov---the-internet-in-society-empowering-or-censoring-citizens

    This RSA Animate was taken from a lecture given as part of the RSA's free public events programme. The RSA is a 258 year-old charity dedicated to driving social progress and spreading world-changing ideas.

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  • RSA Animate - Language as a Window into Human Nature
    RSA Animate - Language as a Window into Human Nature In this new RSA Animate, renowned experimental psychologist Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings. Taken from the RSA's free public events programme www.thersa.org/events.
    Watch the full lecture here: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/archive/steven-pinker

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  • RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
    RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms This RSA Animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.
    Watch this lecture in full here: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/archive/sir-ken-robinson

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  • RSA Animate - 21st Century Enlightenment
    RSA Animate - 21st Century Enlightenment The RSA's Chief Executive Matthew Taylor explores the meaning of the RSA's strapline '21st Century Enlightenment'. How might this idea might help us meet the challenges the world faces today, and what role can be played by organisations such as the RSA?
    Watch the full lecture here: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/archive/matthew-taylor-21st-century-enlightenment

    The RSA is a charity dedicated to finding innovative, practical solutions to today's social challenges. Through its ideas, research and 27,000-strong Fellowship it seeks to understand and enhance human capability so we can close the gap between today's reality and people's hopes for a better world.

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  • RSA Animate - Re-Imagining Work
    RSA Animate - Re-Imagining Work How can we get people more engaged, more productive, and happier at work? Is technology part of the problem -- and could it also be part of the solution?

    Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft, imagines what might be possible if more organisations embraced the full, empowering potential of technology and encouraged a truly open, collaborative and flexible working culture.

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    Watch the edited video: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/vision-videos/david-coplin
  • RSA Animate - The Power of Outrospection
    RSA Animate - The Power of Outrospection Introspection is out, and outrospection is in. Philosopher and author Roman Krznaric explains how we can help drive social change by stepping outside ourselves.

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  • RSA Animate - The Truth About Dishonesty
    RSA Animate - The Truth About Dishonesty Are you more honest than a banker? Under what circumstances would you lie, or cheat, and what effect does your deception have on society at large? Dan Ariely, one of the world's leading voices on human motivation and behaviour is the latest big thinker to get the RSA Animate treatment.

    Taken from a lecture given at the RSA in July 2012 . Watch the longer talk here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGGxguJsirI

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  • RSA Animate - The Power of Networks
    RSA Animate - The Power of Networks In this new RSA Animate, Manuel Lima, senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, explores the power of network visualisation to help navigate our complex modern world. Taken from a lecture given by Manuel Lima as part of the RSA's free public events programme. Listen to the full talk: http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/the-power-of-networks-knowledge-in-an-age-of-infinite-interconnectedness

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  • RSA Animate - The Divided Brain
    RSA Animate - The Divided Brain In this new RSA Animate, renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our 'divided brain' has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society.

    Taken from a lecture given by Iain McGilchrist as part of the RSA's free public events programme. To view the full lecture, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbUHxC4wiWk.The RSA is a 258 year-old charity devoted to creating social progress and spreading world-changing ideas. For more information about our research, RSA Animates, free events programme and 27,000 strong fellowship.
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