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Statistics and the battle against misinformation

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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Denise Lievesley gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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Denise Lievesley
Keywords
politics
journalism
internet
information
Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Date Added: 08/06/2018
Duration: 00:42:20

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Sleep softly: Ethics, Schubert and the value of dying well

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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An inter-disciplinary collaboration on music, mortality and ethics.
In 1824, ill and conscious of his own mortality, Franz Schubert incorporated a theme from one his earlier lieder “Der Tod und das Mädchen” (Death and the Maiden) into a new string quartet. Schubert’s emotive musical treatment of Claudius’ poem evokes the intense conflict between struggle and acceptance in the face of death. Medical professionals, especially those who work in palliative care, often have considerable experience of dying and death, and have a view about what would constitute a “good death”. But what does it mean for a death to be good? Is there an objective sense of what would count as a good death? What ethical weight should be placed on the importance of a good death?

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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Dominic Wilkinson
Keywords
palliative care
dying
death
schubert
Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Date Added: 08/06/2018
Duration: 00:36:59

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Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange: Urban Heritage

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Kellogg College
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A multidisciplinary seminar, as part of the Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange series.
Five leading voices in the fields of architectural history, architecture, heritage research and urban conservation will pitch their views on how the urban landscape might be managed to celebrate and invigorate the built environment of the past in today’s era of smart cities, reconfigured time scales and new, emerging urban technologies. They will answer the question:
Cities change. How should urban heritage be managed?
Speakers:
Dr Geoffrey Tyack, Emeritus Fellow in Architectural History, Kellogg College
Professor Leidulf Mydland, Head of Community Department, Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage
Debbie Dance, Director, Oxford Preservation Trust
Barbara Weiss, Skyline Campaign
Chair:
Dr Oliver Cox, Heritage Engagement Fellow, University of Oxford

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Kellogg College
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Geoffrey Tyack
Leidulf Mydland
Debbie Dance
Barbara Weiss
Oliver Cox
Keywords
architecture
heritage
Environment
cities
Department: Kellogg College
Date Added: 07/06/2018
Duration: 00:59:43

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Artist Talk: Made in Imagination

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Find out how Anne Griffiths’ work, Lost in Imagination, reimagines intriguing objects lost within the Pitt Rivers archive.
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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Anne Griffiths
Keywords
artist
ethnographic objects
museums
pitt rivers museum
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 06/06/2018
Duration: 00:20:32

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Identity beyond Borders: Ethnicity in the American Pacific

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Evan Matsuyama gives a short talk on Japanese mortality, identity, and ethnicity in the Nikkei struggle against mass incarceration during World War II.
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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Evan Matsuyama
Keywords
japan
japanese studies
american pacific
ethnicity
ww2
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 06/06/2018
Duration: 00:20:50

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Lost and Found: The story of a Museum store

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Andrew Hughes gives a short talk on the discovery unusual things lost and found during a move of 100,000 Pitt Rivers Museum objects.
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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Andrew Hughes
Keywords
pitt rivers
museum objects
Oxford Museums
ethnographic treasures
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 06/06/2018
Duration: 00:20:42

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Bubble Acoustics: from listening to the ocean to cleaning medical devices and fighting antimicrobial and antibiotic resistance.

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Department of Engineering Science Lectures
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By understanding how bubbles make sound, we can listen to the ocean, and track the >1 billion tonnes of atmospheric carbon that transfers between atmosphere and ocean annually when ocean waves break and trap atmospheric gas under the sea.
The 44th Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture.
Naturally-occurring underwater bubbles are extremely powerful sources of underwater sound. They act as sources for the sound of a waterfall or a breaking ocean wave, when those features inject atmospheric gas underwater to form bubbles, which then ring like tiny bells. By understanding how bubbles make sound, we can listen to the ocean, and track the >1 billion tonnes of atmospheric carbon that transfers between atmosphere and ocean annually when ocean waves break and trap atmospheric gas under the sea.

Bubbles can also scatter and refract the underwater sound fields produced by other acoustic sources. This effect is exploited by whales and dolphins when they use sound for hunting, and provides us with new options when hunting for explosives or covert surveillance equipment.

The lecture closes by discussing the role that acoustic bubbles have in mitigating the ‘antibiotic apocalypse’, which by 2050 is predicted to be causing more deaths than cancer, and will have cost the world economy more than the current size of the global economy.
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Department of Engineering Science Lectures
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Timothy Leighton
Keywords
bubble acoustics
antibiotic resistance
lubbock
Department: Department of Engineering Science
Date Added: 05/06/2018
Duration: 01:16:24

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The Awesome Acoustic Bubble

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Department of Engineering Science Lectures
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A mini lecture recorded as part of the Maurice Lubbock Memorial Event
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Department of Engineering Science Lectures
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Ronald Roy
Keywords
Acoustic bubble
oscillator
cavitation
Department: Department of Engineering Science
Date Added: 05/06/2018
Duration: 00:33:11

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The Use of Ultrasound Mediated Cavitation to Enhance the Delivery of Cancer Therapies

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Department of Engineering Science Lectures
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A mini lecture recorded as part of the 44th Maurice Lubbock Memorial Event
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Department of Engineering Science Lectures
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Robert Carlisle
Keywords
cancer therapies
bubble acoustics
lubbock
Department: Department of Engineering Science
Date Added: 05/06/2018
Duration: 00:30:31

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2018 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (3/3): Illness and Attitude

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Uehiro Lectures: Practical solutions for ethical challenges
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Lecture 3 of 3.Who we are depends in part on the social world in which we live. In these lectures I look at some consequences for three mental health problems, broadly construed: dementia, addiction, and psychosomatic illness.
Many illnesses have been thought—controversially—to have a psychosomatic component. How should we understand this? Sometimes a contrast is made between organic illness and mental illness: psychosomatic illnesses are the latter masquerading as the former. But if the mental is physical, and hence organic, this will not help. An alternative approach distinguishes between symptoms that are influenced by the patient’s attitudes, and those that are not; psychosomatic illnesses are marked by the former. Does this make the class too wide? Suppose I aggravate a bad back by refusing to exercise, falsely expecting the exercise to be dangerous. My symptoms are influenced by my attitude: are they therefore psychosomatic? I suggest that there is no sharp cut-off. I examine the role of attitudes in various illnesses, including addiction, focussing on the ways that social factors affect the relevant attitudes. I ask whether recognition of a continuum might help lessen the stigma that psychosomatic illness has tended to attract, and suggest other ways that treatment might be more attuned to these issues.

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Uehiro Lectures: Practical solutions for ethical challenges
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Richard Holton
Keywords
pyschosomatic illness
organic illness
mental illness
patient attitudes
Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Date Added: 05/06/2018
Duration: 01:03:55

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