RSA - Current Events

Four Thought

2012-05-29 18:00:00

Join our live audience and be part of Radio 4’s exciting talks strand - Four Thought – when our speakers Mitu Khandaker, Colin Crooks and Kamin Mohammadi will share their latest thinking on the ideas, interests and passions that affect our culture and society.

Climate Engineering in the Anthropocene

2012-05-31 13:00:00

Professor of public ethics Clive Hamilton explores the far-reaching implications of geoengineering—the intentional, enduring, large-scale manipulation of the Earth’s climate system.
Suggested hashtag for Twitter: #RSAclimate

The Moral Molecule

2012-05-31 18:00:00

Renowned neuroscientist and economist Paul J. Zak reveals how a single chemical governs all of our morality and behaviour.
Suggested hashtag for Twitter: #RSAZak

The Antidote

2012-06-12 13:00:00

Journalist and author Oliver Burkeman offers an alternative "negative path" to happiness and success that involves embracing the things we spend our lives trying to avoid.
Suggested hashtag for Twitter: #RSAantidote

The New Few

2012-06-13 18:00:00

Ferdinand Mount asks: Why has Britain become more unequal over the past thirty years? And how can we restore our democracy, bring back real accountability to British business and fairness to our society?
Suggested hashtag for Twitter: #newfew

Connectome: How the brain’s wiring makes us who we are

2012-06-14 13:00:00

Rising star in the field of neuroscience Sebastian Seung argues that our identity lies not in our genes but in the connections between our brain cells – and he describes the monumental task of mapping these “connectomes”, neuron by neuron, synapse by synapse.
Suggested hashtag for Twitter: #RSASeung

How Much Is Enough?

2012-06-21 13:00:00

Robert and Edward Skidelsky argue that wealth is not an end in itself but a means to the achievement and maintenance of a 'good life', and that our economy should be organised to reflect this fact.
Suggested hashtag for Twitter: #RSAenough

Are Genes Us?

2012-06-28 13:00:00

Donna Dickenson, professor of medical ethics and humanities at Birkbeck College takes aim at the simplistic view that genes command and we obey.
Suggested hashtag for Twitter: #RSAgenes