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
Fusing sociology, psychoanalysis and philosophy, Professor Renata Salecl shows that individual choice is rarely based on a simple rational decision with a predictable outcome.
RSA Animate – The Internet in Society: Empowering and Censoring Citizen?
Does the internet actually inhibit, not 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 empancipatory role in global politics.
Exposing some idealistic myths about freedom and technology (during Iran’s ‘twitter revolution’ fewer than 20,000 Twitter users actually took part), Evgeny argues for some realism about the actual uses and abuses of the internet.
Raising Aspirations and the Glass Ceiling
A new report suggests that the glass ceiling for women at work is created by their own lack of confidence. If this is the case, asks Juliana Farha FRSA, what role can fathers play in their daughters’ lives?
RSA Animate – Language as a Window into Human Nature
In this RSA Animate, Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings
Darwin, Morality and Human Behaviour
Clem Henricson FRSA examines the question of what part morality plays in our evolution.
Comment 2011
Rachel O’Brien, FRSA reviews the first year of RSA Comment and looks forward to 2011
Beyond Nudge vs Nanny
As the government begins to use ‘nudge’ policies for real, Clive Gross argues we risk over simplifying why we do not change our behaviour.
A new national service for the unemployed
Despite the government’s refrain of us ‘all being in this together’, the current situation is divisive. FRSA Ivor Thomas suggests one way forward. The RSA fundamentally exists to promote and further the well-being of Society. The present social problems we are all facing need to be addressed before anarchy and violence increases. These include rising [...]
FIFA’s Own Goal
FRSA David Goldblatt argues that England’s world cup bid humiliation should spur the football community, public and press to push for greater scrutiny and radical reform of FIFA.
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