The Incompatibility of Science and Religion [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor John Worrall | Richard Dawkins and others claim that science and religion are incompatible. Others argue that on a more sophisticated view there is only the appearance of a clash. Who is right? John Worrall is professor of philosophy of science at LSE.
Imagining a Humanist Europe [Audio]
Speaker(s): Francois Bayrou | Frangois Bayrou will address the theme of humanism. He will outline how he believes that Europe needs a new set of values and specially humanism after the failures of capitalism. Frangois Bayrou is the leader of the French centre party called Mouvement Democrate (Democratic Mouvement) and former presidential candidate. Mr Bayrou entered politics in the early 1980s and joined the centre right party called UDF. He served as education minister in centre-right governmen
Chasing Science: laboratory inquiries, children's brains, family labours [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Rayna Rapp | Over the last three decades, an escalating proportion of US school children have been classified for special education. At the same time, scientists have focused increasingly on juvenile brains. This lecture looks at the work of both neuroscientists and psychiatric epidemiologists.
Cities Under Siege [Audio]
Speaker(s): Stephen Graham | Cities have become the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centres of the West, Cities Under Siege traces how political violence now operates through the sites, spaces, infrastructures and symbols of the world's rapidly expanding metropolitan areas. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Graham shows how Western and Israeli militaries and security forces now perceive all urban terrain as a r
Getting More [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Stuart Diamond | You're always negotiating. Whether making a business deal, talking to friends or even driving a car, negotiation is going on. And most of us are terrible at it. Experts tell us to negotiate as if we live in a rational world. But people can be angry, fearful and irrational. To achieve your goals you have to be able to deal with the unpredictable. Negotiation expert Stuart Diamond reveals the real secrets behind getting more in any negotiation - whatever 'mor
Freedom and Agency [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Patrick Haggard, Dr Amber Jacobs, Professor Thomas Pink | Is freedom part of human nature? And how can freedom be both a human power and a human right? Patrick Haggard is a professor at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and in the Department of Psychology, UCL. Amber Jacobs is a lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Thomas Pink is a professor of philosophy at King's College London.
Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor John Quiggin | The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and their influence created a system where an unthinking faith in markets led many to view speculative investments as fundamentally safe. The crisis seemed to have killed off these ideas, but they still live on in the minds of many
The Future of Global Economic Governance [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Robert Wade | How have changes in world power been translated into governing bodies like the G20, the World Bank and the IMF? The reality is less than meets the eye, and stalemates lie ahead. Robert Wade is professor of political economy and development in the Department of International Development, LSE.
1.2.10 Key points Diagrams can be helpful in: understanding a situation; analysing a situation; communicating with others about that analysis; planning to deal with a situation, both logically and creatively; and implementing, monitoring and evaluating those plans. They are therefore used at different times and in different ways within the same investigation and many investigative meth
U.S. day ahead: Service sector slowdown seen for June-IFR
July 5 - IFR Associate Economist Theo Littleton says the ISM non-manufacturing index in June should show a modest drop to 53.5 on weak consumer confidence, down from May's reading of 54.6.
Lower the Debt Ceiling [An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by the author, is available for download.] Currently, the big show in Washington, DC, centers around raising the debt ceiling. Congress began setting this ceiling in
Inside the News: Trade BSkyB as call option, Muller says
Investors wanting a slice of BSkyB should treat the stock as a call option and take a long term view as it looks expensive following News Corp hacking scandal, says Reuters Analyst Richard Muller.
Making a Simple Circuit
Instructions and notes for conducting a lesson on the topic of simple electrical circuits.
Teaching children with Attention Deficit Disorder
This advice sheet is aimed at children with Special needs (Attention Deficit Disorder). It offers strategies for dealing with this disability in the mainstream classroom.
Listening exercise: Slide show about Tongeren (place in Belgium)
You understand a slide show presentation or spoken explanation concerning a cultural subject.
French flotilla ship leaves Crete
The French ship Dignite, part of the Freedom flotilla heading to Gaza, is allowed to leave a Greek port. Sunita Rappai reports.
Cuba & Florida: Exploration on a Historical Connection, 1539-1991
Miguel Bretos looks at the Cuban presence in "La Florida" from the time of Ponce de Leon, almost 500 years ago, through the late 20th century.
Speaker Biography: Historian Miguel Bretos was born in Cuba and received his doctorate from Vanderbilt University. He is currently senior scholar at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery.
Global Business Dialogue
Thunderbird School of Global Management President Angel Cabrera and other faculty discuss the Thunderbird Global Business Dialogue, which will be Nov. 10-11, 2011, in Glendale, Arizona. http://www.thunderbird.edu/dialogue
Saving, Trade, and the Confidence Fairy The last-minute negotiations over the debt ceiling have brought the economic pundits out in force. In the midst of a terrible recession, the contrast between Austrian and Keynesian analysis is striking. The Austrians recommend the virtues of saving and investment, while Keynesians preach the opposite. Things are so topsy-turvy that in this article, I'm actually going to defend President Obama
A Short History of US Credit Defaults On July 13th, the president of the United States angrily walked out of ongoing negotiations over the raising of the debt ceiling from its legislated maximum of $14.294 trillion dollars. This prompted a new round of speculation over whether the United States might default on its financial obligations. In these circumstances, it is useful to recall the previous instances in which this has occurr
