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The future of Africa at the Oxford Literary Festival 2015

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Three authors with recent books on Africa discuss the future of the continent and answer questions from the audience under the watchful eye of the director of the Oxford Martin School, Professor Ian Goldin.
Martin Meredith, Jonny Steinberg and Tom Burgis will discuss what the future holds for African states. How can the continent deal with failing government and corruption and with war and a constant flow of refugees? How far is Africa a victim of its past, and is there a new financial colonialism holding it back? What can the rest of the world do to help Africa to grow and prosper in peace?
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Martin Meredith
Jonny Steinberg
Tom Burgis
Keywords
Africa
politics
refugees
humanitarianism
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 00:59:20

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The limits of human performance and artificial intelligence

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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In this new Oxford talk, Garry Kasparov, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, turns his attention to the rapidly evolving relationship between humans and technology.
In this new talk, Garry Kasparov turns his attention to the rapidly evolving relationship between humans and technology. He will explore the impact of technology on human development – how it can enhance, limit or possibly even endanger the human race. Kasparov will consider the possibilities, limitations and risks of this ever-changing field of potential, looking at a wide range of developments, from nano-sensors to the prospect of artificial intelligence.
He will also address the issues surrounding data and privacy, offering his perspective on whether potential breakthroughs and advantages are worth the risk to privacy. He will examine the opposing views of those who fear the risks and those who seem only to embrace the upside of new generations of technology.
In what promises to be a lively and wide-ranging talk, Garry Kasparov brings his unique perspective to a set of issues that are hotly debated and constantly in the headlines
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Garry Kasparov
Keywords
technology
artificial intelligence
computing
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:21:12

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Philae at the comet: a scientific adventure

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Professor Chris Lintott, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford and presenter of the BBC’s Sky at Night will talk about the history and the science of the voyage.
Professor Ian Goldin, Director, Oxford Martin School and Chris will discuss the implications and politics of Europe’s mission to study a comet that is three hundred million miles away. On 12th November 2014, after a 10 year journey, the Rosetta spacecraft's lander Philae touched down on the surface of the comet 67P, also known as Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The robotic European Space Agency lander not only took images from the comet’s surface, the first images in history, but obtained data that was sent back to be analysed. This data will be used to determine the composition of the surface of the comet. But what does this mean? And what implications does it have?
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Chris Lintott
Ian Goldin
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Physics
astrophysics
space
Philae
comets
astronomy
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:11:21

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The metabolism of a human-dominated planet

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Yadvinder Malhi, Director of the Oxford Centre ofr Tropical Forests, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School.
We live in a new epoch, the Anthropocene, the Age of Us, of which climate change is just one aspect. The defining feature of this age is that sum of human activity (how many we are and what we are doing) has become large compared to the natural processes of the biosphere. The atmospheric waste products of our activity being the main driver of climate change. How can we measure how “large” we are, and how has our impact on the planet varied throughout human history?
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Yadvinder Malhi
Keywords
Environment
population
biodiversity
anthropocene
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:15:02

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Living in a quantum world

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Vlatko Vedral, Co-=Direct oof the Oxford Martin Programme on Bio-Inspired Quantum Technologies, gives a talk for theOxford Martin School.
Quantum mechanics is commonly said to be a theory of microscopic things: molecules, atoms, subatomic particles. Nearly all physicists, though, think it applies to everything, no matter what the size. The reason its distinctive features tend to be hidden is not a simple matter of scale. Over the past few years experimentalists have seen quantum effects in a growing number of macroscopic systems. The quintessential quantum effect, entanglement, can even occur in large systems as well as warm ones - including living organisms - even though molecular jiggling might be expected to disrupt entanglement.
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Vlatko Vedral
Keywords
Physics
quantum
quantum mechanics
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:13:11

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Quantum life

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Professor Seth Lloyd, Principal Investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School.
Over the past decade, experimental evidence has accumulated that photosynthetic organisms are using quantum mechanics in a sophisticated fashion to attain high energy transport efficiency. This talk shows how this high efficienty arises from the interplay between coherence, decoherence, and static disorder
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Seth Lloyd
Keywords
Physics
quantum mechanics
quantum world
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:05:55

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British Philanthropy: Past and Present

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Philanthropy
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A talk by Dr Frank Prochaska at the Inaugural seminar of the Oxford Centre for the Study of Philanthropy, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.
The activities of the Oxford Centre for the Study of Philanthropy at Green Templeton College commenced on 22 June 2015 with an inaugural seminar led by Somerville College historian, Dr Frank Prochaska, on the history of British philanthropy’s democratic traditions and local roots.

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Philanthropy
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Michael Earl
Frank Prochaskha  
Keywords
philanthropy
Charity
Voluntary Impulse
pluralism
Localism
democracy
history
Department: Green Templeton College
Date Added: 14/08/2015
Duration: 00:52:11

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Introduction to the Oxford Centre for the Study of Philanthropy

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Philanthropy
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Professor Michael Earl, Chair and Co-Founder of the Oxford Centre for the Study of Philanthropy introducing the new centre.

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Philanthropy
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Michael Earl
Keywords
philanthropy
Charity
Department: Green Templeton College
Date Added: 14/08/2015
Duration: 00:01:21

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Philanthropy

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The Oxford Centre for the Study of Philanthropy is the focal point for research, engagement and thinking about philanthropy at Oxford University.

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A Dose of Wittgenstein

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The New Madhyamaka
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Mark Siderits (Seoul National University emeritus) gives the eleventh talk in the New Madhyamaka workshop.
The workshop "The New Madhyamaka: Developing Ancient Indian Thought Through Contemporary Philosophical Tools and Techniques", funded by the Templeton Foundation, took place in Oxford on 20th and 21st April 2015

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The New Madhyamaka
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Mark Siderits
Keywords
religion
theology
Buddhism
tibet
tibetan buddhism
Department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Date Added: 13/08/2015
Duration: 00:31:37

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