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RSA Animate – The Divided Brain
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.
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?
In this new RSAnimate adapted from a talk at the RSA, author and journalist Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely empancipatory role in global politics.
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. View the full lecture at the RSA.
RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms
Another inspiring RSA Animate taken from a speech given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education expert and recipient of the RSA Benjamin Franklin award. Download a transcript of this video (pdf).
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