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Ideas whose time has come: from cosmology to cancer
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)Adelaide Festival of Ideas session, Freemasons Main Hall, 6:30 pm, Thursday 17th October, 2013. Chaired by Robert Phiddian and Phillip Adams. From dark energy to the Higgs boson, from cancer folklore to synthetic biology: ... -
Better ways to grow old
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) was created to find radical new solutions to Australia’s social challenges. TACSI has developed a range of programs to help older Australians live more fulfilling lives, ... -
Looking to the stars: in search of our place in the universe
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)A fascination with time and space has been part of the human story since we first looked up. A select group from across the program explores this obsession with the night sky and asks what this says about our imaginations ... -
Resilience (Joy MacLennan Oration)
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)Anne Deveson’s distinguished career combines her media experience with a long-standing concern for social justice. In her book, Resilience (2003), Anne asks ‘How is it that some people can be resilient in adversity, while ... -
Story time rebooted
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)The web allows more people than ever to build their own narratives and connect with others. As the price of digital technologies goes down, and the access to high-speed internet goes up, how is this transforming the way ... -
The electric planet
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)Re-inventing our energy supply is one of the biggest challenges of our time. Is it possible to build a strategy that ensures abundant energy, a vibrant economy and a stable environment? Dr Alan Finkel believes an electron ... -
Safety in clusters
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)European countries have been using cluster development for economic and industrial sustainability for about 20 years. Could a similar approach work for South Australia? Special guest Professor Örjan Sölvell will examine ... -
Breathing life into our city's corners
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)What makes good cities thrive, and how can the potential of a city be harnessed? Game changers work to find the potential to breathe life into a city’s streets, allowing communities to make the best use of their public ... -
Endangered foods (Barbara Hardy Oration)
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)The United Nations estimates 75% of crop varieties have disappeared since 1900. This shrinkage echoes through our food chain and strips crops, livestock and aquatic life of their ability to adapt to changes in the environment, ... -
The business of death
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)No one wants to talk about it, but we’re all going to have to do it sooner or later. Death, that is. Dr Charlie Corke and Lynette Wallworth, director of Tender discuss how to die well, or at least start the conversation. -
Basic instinct: the heroic project of anti-discrimination law (Roma Mitchell Oration)
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)The model for Australia’s non-discrimination and equality opportunity laws has been largely unchanged for almost 40 years. How much has it achieved in changing social attitudes? Are we relying on laws that go too far and ... -
Relaxed, comfortable and still not satisfied
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)Australia survived the global financial crisis relatively unscathed. Our cities have some of the highest standards of living in the world. No doubt income inequality is getting wider, but it’s hard to argue with Australia’s ... -
Has global warming melted our brains?
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)The issue of climate change has well and truly fallen off front pages and down the list of voter concerns. Is the concept of climate change, and how much is at stake, literally beyond our imagination? Simran Sethi digs ... -
The human face of Big Data
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)Working with more than 100 journalists from around the world, Rick Smolan believes we’re witnessing the emergence of a global nervous system, with each of us human sensors. Does Big Data have the potential to be “humanity’s ... -
Brain dance: the art and science of movement
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)More than sport, dance is the most complex and detailed movement system that humans have devised. Rather than the brain simply existing as the driver of the body, our morphology and the actions of the body also in turn ... -
Sex bonding and dominance in bonobos
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)The mating behavior of the apes is comical, complex and fascinating. Chimpanzee societies are physically aggressive, male-bonded and male-dominated. Their close relatives (and ours), the bonobos, differ: females bond with ... -
Dissent and democracy: an audience with Anwar Ibrahim
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)Anwar Ibrahim is an internationally recognised champion of democracy. He has spent years championing free and fair electoral processes in Malaysia at great personal and political cost. Imprisoned and vilified, lauded around ... -
Why do nations fail? Why did Australia prosper? The rise and fall of economic ideas
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)How many good ideas fail to take off? What are the essential elements that drive innovation and economic sustainability at the micro and macro level? Professor Örjan Sölvell explores the imperative to acquire buy-in from ... -
Know your meme
(Radio Adelaide, 2013-10)Twitter’s secret girlfriend and self-proclaimed national treasure First Dog on the Moon explains how the internet is full of trolls, why old people should be frightened and how cat gifs will save democracy. If you don’t ...