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The community versus the individual. How do we get past greed and what’s the alternative?
55 mins
Why human instincts are floundering in a modern world of fast food and cartoons.
Lord John Alderdice explains how to use psychotherapy to bring peace.
In a special TED show, we ask about change and how to bring it about.
British Historian, Professor Niall Ferguson, revives the era of gentlemanly capitalism.
Forum at Science Museum: Who am I? A combination of pleasure, pain and love?
How our mind can behave very differently depending on who we are with.
Is the world hurtling towards a final theory of everything ? And what might it look like?
New Beginnings: cell renewal and telomeres, the rise of China and new African education.
This week on The Forum: Masks, Movement and Emotion.
This week on The Forum we’re going to discuss why we lie to protect our sense of self.
Soft power or Smart power: will Joseph Nye's ideas work in the 21st Century?
Tracing the silvery threads of a spider’s web… the power of connections.
Engaging your enemies: is democracy a precondition for peace?
Innovation: the mysterious realm of nanotechnology.
Power-games, unwelcome parasites, and the rise of middle classes in the Muslim world.
Is art and creativity universal and what evolutionary advantage has it given us?
Storytelling: through DNA, ancient texts and in Eastern wisdom
How much money is one life worth? Should we be putting a price tag on the terminally ill?
Is it a good idea to erase our painful memories?
What makes an outsider become an insider?
The past and future of the internet: where is it heading? And what if it stopped working?
In The Forum from Wales we ask how we can improve trust in an age of catastrophic risk?
How do our ideas of home define us, and are there other planets we could inhabit?
Why pointing's unique to humans, the financial meltdown that wasn't & serious video games
Radically changing the world's monetary systems...and why our nose knows best.
The true source of power: is it love, self interest or the cutting edge of biochemistry?
What gives an object meaning and value? The Forum this week comes from the British Museum.
To see the world differently, opt out of society or just watch water boil!
Why a vast array of unknown species is still out there waiting to be discovered
