Beste British Academy podcaster (2024)

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How To Make The World Add Up 58:01

4y ago58:01

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Statistics are vital in helping us tell stories – we see them in the papers, on social media, and we hear them used in everyday conversation - and yet in this era of fake news we doubt them more than ever. In his timely new book 'How to Make the World Add Up', Tim Harford navigates a world of disinformation, bad research and misplaced motivation to…

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Is COVID-19 a turning point in history? Learning from the past 57:53

4+ y ago57:53

57:53

The course of human history has been shaped by war, disease and natural disaster. Whether the Black Death, world wars or COVID-19, these crises have sent shockwaves across the globe, with far-reaching social, political and economic consequences. In this event, distinguished historian Margaret MacMillan joins Hetan Shah to discuss major turning poin…

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Confronting COVID-19: nudge and sludge 56:34

4+ y ago56:34

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Governments across the world are using behavioural ‘nudges’ to help slow the spread of coronavirus: wash your hands, don’t touch your face, stay at home. Based on an idea popularised by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, nudge theory encourages us to do the “right thing” by making the desired action easy, more obvious and more normal. But how far do…

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Global Perspectives: decolonial feminism 58:40

5+ y ago58:40

58:40

Françoise Vergès discusses the history of counter revolution against women’s liberation from the 1970s to the 2000s and the forms it concretely took (femonationalism, femi-imperialism in the name of women’s rights) and current forms of decolonial feminism.Speaker:Dr Françoise Vergès, Chair of Global South, Collège d'études Mondiales, ParisChair: Pr…

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Thinkers for our Time: Martin Kemp FBA on Leonardo da Vinci 11:53

5+ y ago11:53

11:53

Professor Martin Kemp FBA reflects on Leonardo's extraordinary life and legacy, the commercial implications of his worldwide fame, and the endless conspiracy theories he inspires.Av The British Academy

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Thinkers for our Time: Merce Cunningham 30:18

5+ y ago30:18

30:18

Thinkers for our Time: Merce Cunningham by The British AcademyAv The British Academy

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What does ‘TubeCrush’ reveal about modern desire? 13:35

6y ago13:35

13:35

What does ‘TubeCrush’ reveal about modern desire? by The British AcademyAv The British Academy

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Identity politics: a term whose time has gone? 28:02

6y ago28:02

28:02

Author, broadcaster and editor-at-large for The Guardian Gary Younge discusses how identity politics has effectively come to mean anything you want it to, so long as you don’t like it. As such, since it is a term so wilfully misunderstood, he argues it is no longer worth claiming or even necessarily critiquing. But the original idea that underpins …

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How To Make The World Add Up 58:01

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Is COVID-19 a turning point in history? Learning from the past 57:53

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Confronting COVID-19: nudge and sludge 56:34

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Global Perspectives: decolonial feminism 58:40

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Thinkers for our Time: Martin Kemp FBA on Leonardo da Vinci 11:53

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Thinkers for our Time: Merce Cunningham 30:18

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What does ‘TubeCrush’ reveal about modern desire? 13:35

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Identity politics: a term whose time has gone? 28:02

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