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![Thinking on Sunday – How humanity might avoid devastation]()
Thinking on Sunday – How humanity might avoid devastation
Thinking on Sunday – How humanity might avoid devastation
Population growth, destruction of natural habitats and rapid extinction of species, vast inequalities of wealth and power around the globe, the lethal character of modern war, pollution of earth, sea and air, and above all the impending disasters of climate change; all these looming global problems indicate we face a grim future. In order tackle these problems intelligently, effectively and humanely, requires that our institutions of learning, our universities and schools, are rationally designed and devoted to the task. At present, they are not. We have inherited from the past a kind of academic inquiry so grossly irrational that it has actually contributed to the genesis of these problems. The great intellectual success of modern science and technological research has made possible, even caused, all these global crises.
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![Martin Rowson’s “The Coalition” Christmas Talk]()
Martin Rowson’s “The Coalition” Christmas Talk
Martin Rowson’s “The Coalition” Christmas Talk
fter the historic General Election of 2010, Britain ended up with a Tory-Lib Dem coalition government. While the media has reported on its highs and lows, no one has captured the cabinet's actions better than Martin Rowson, who has been documenting his own version of events in cartoons for The Guardian, The Mirror, The Morning Star and other publications. 'The Coalition Book' collects his best, most brutally funny and visceral cartoons from the last four years.
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![Sunday Concerts – Bridge Quartet]()
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![Thinking on Sunday – Should we Spend Billions Looking into Deep Space?]()
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![GALHA Gala Comedy Evening]()
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![A ‘New Magna Carta’?]()
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![London Thinks – Ben Goldacre: I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That!]()
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![Sunday Concerts – Trio Petrus]()
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![Has human prosperity peaked already?]()
Has human prosperity peaked already?
Has human prosperity peaked already?
Will the future bring only greater poverty and more turmoil? Is it too late for us to take preventive action? Do we have any real leadership in the world, or are we merely drifting? These questions sound hyperbolic and we must hope they will prove just that. But the signs are frightening. We are not reversing climate change and the population of the world, particularly in the tropics, continues to grow rapidly.
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![Larger than Life: creating solo performance]()
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![Alastair Creamer – Am I in the Right Job?]()
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![Sunday Concerts – Fitzwilliam Quartet]()
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![Kelsier Trio]()
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![Corpus]()
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![Peter Tatchell: Organised Religion is the greatest threat to human rights]()
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![Small Publishers Fair 2014]()
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![Dean Whittington – The Perpetual Treadmill]()
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![London Thinks: Nate Phelps – Leaving Hate Behind]()
London Thinks: Nate Phelps – Leaving Hate Behind
London Thinks: Nate Phelps – Leaving Hate Behind
A very special evening in which we hear from Nate Phelps, in an incredibly moving talk on the Westboro Baptist Church, the childhood he spent growing up in, and how he came to leave his family behind at the stroke of midnight on his 18th birthday.
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![Neo4j GraphDay]()
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![MusicUpClose – Music Under Fire in Paris and London]()
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![MusicUpClose – In Memoriam – bells and sounds of War]()
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![MusicUpClose – Britain at War: the lads that will never be Old]()
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The Unbelievers
The Unbelievers
The Unbelievers documentary follows Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss as they speak publicly around the world. It includes interviews with Stephen Hawking Ayaan Hirsi Ali Sam Harris Cameron Diaz Woody Allen and many others.Watch the documentary then join the Q & A with Dawkins and Krauss at the event. If you want to take the DVD home it'll be available to buy and get signed.
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![MusicUpClose – A Voice in the War]()
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![Reel Rock]()
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![Language courses in…]()
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![London Thinks – Shouting Back]()
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![MusicUpClose – Musical Responses to War]()
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