Dr. Kate Moran: Connecting our Planet’s Oceans to the Internet
Ninety-nine percent of the life-forms on our planet live in the ocean. Dr Kate Moran says, “it’s really a much greater part of the planet than we realise. ” Dr. Moran is a world-renowned ocean engineer. Her research focuses on marine geotechnics and its application to the study of paleoclimate (the study of changes in climate taken on […]
Jeffrey Kluger: The Hidden Power of Siblings
Jeffrey Kluger makes the case that it is those brothers and sisters — our place among them, our rivalry with them — who make us who we are. Older siblings we are told, are those most likely to succeed, but younger brothers and sisters have a measurably quicker grasp of other minds, a writerly ability to intuit […]
Nicos Anastasiou: Connecting to the Past for Peace
Nicos Anastasiou shares stories of citizen peace-building and how ordinary people were separated due to the conflict in Cyprus and how they are reconvening again. How the younger generation is learning to turn the pain of the past from a wall that separates them to a bridge that brings them together.
Chris Bliss: Comedy is Translation
Writer Chris Bliss explores the inherent challenge of communication, and how comedy opens paths to new perspectives. Every act of communication is, in some way, an act of translation. He thinks hard about the way that great comedy can translate deep truths for a mass audience. He explores the inherent challenge of communication, and how comedy opens […]
José Bowen: Beethoven as Bill Gates
If Beethoven as Bill Gates doesn’t make sense then never mind, José Bowen trusts us to figure it out. On another t[r]ack, he thinks he might tell the story of music delivery, literally from Pounding Rocks to Pounding Rock. He does a sail by of the first 10,000 years then with all the skill of a great […]
