Primo Levi Reads Dante: The role of literature in our world
Is there a degree of suffering and degradation beyond which a man or a woman ceases to be a human being? A point beyond which our spirit dies and only pure physiology survives? And to what extent, if ...
10 Okt 20161h 29min
Don Watson: American Politics in the Time of Trump
Don Watson and fellow Quarterly Essayist James Brown discuss the strangest election campaign the US has ever seen.
7 Okt 20161h 34min
Dying Re-imagined: designing a better way to die
Approaching death is an opportunity for individuals and those who care for them to reduce unnecessary suffering and achieve something more human and humane. Sadly, few dying people or their carers ach...
6 Okt 20161h 27min
Why Violent Revolutions Lead to the Most Durable Dictatorships
The twentieth century saw the emergence of a number of authoritarian regimes – China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, the USSR – that have both challenged the global order and persisted in the face of massiv...
5 Okt 20161h 23min
Gut Microbiome: a new target for managing human metabolic health
Humans are superorganisms with two genomes that dictate phenotype, the genetically inherited human genome (25,000 genes) and the environmentally acquired human microbiome (over 1 million genes). The t...
4 Okt 20161h 28min
Fighting Corruption in Indonesia’s Natural Resource Sector
Indonesia has struggled with corruption in its natural resource sector, with unchecked environmental destruction the result . Laode M Syarif, the newly elected Commissioner for Indonesia Anti-Corrupt...
30 Sep 20161h 13min
Punishment as Help and Blaming Emotions
Legal academic Professor Annalise Acorn argues that criminal punishment, devoid of all emotions of blame, is inhuman in relation to the offender and contrary to a morally robust justification for the ...
26 Sep 20161h 28min
Pluto: the pugnacious planet
Lecture by Professor Fran Bagenal, Co-investigator and Leader of the Plasma Teams for NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and Juno mission to Jupiter, and Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics,...
23 Sep 20161h 29min
