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Hyde Park Civilizace

Česká televize

Věda a současná civilizace. Interaktivní rozhovory se světovými odborníky, ve kterých je prostor pro vaše otázky a komentáře. Moderuje Daniel Stach.

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56:02

Steve Hughes (former president, US Academy of...

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2020/02/19

In his opinion, the current education system is not perfect: children memorize dates or lists of literary works, receive information in a passive way and have very little room for creativity and activity. This and many other traditional teaching methods do not allow children to utilize all their potential. Steve Hughes, the director of the Center for Research on Developmental Education and the former president of the US Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology, uses modern neuroscience insights

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55:32

Robert Woodrow Wilson (Nobel Prize laureate, astronomer)

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2020/02/19

Robert Woodrow Wilson, a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics – an exclusive guest of Hyde Park Civilization. “How was the universe created? By the Big Bang. And here is the proof – we measured the cosmic microwave background radiation,” Robert W. Wilson could say in 1964. He and his colleague Arno Penzias thus confirmed the answer to one of the key questions of mankind: “What was at the very beginning?” How did they measure the radiation? What role did pigeon droppings play in this

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54:37

Andrey Zubov

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2020/02/19

Andrei Zubov was dismissed this spring from his post at the State Institute of International Relations after he wrote an article criticizing Russia’s conduct during the Crimean crisis. Officially for “immoral behavior.” Professor Zubov is the head of the authors of the book The History of Russia in the 20th Century. He replaced Alexander Solzhenitsyn as the editor-in-chief. What is modern-day Russia like? What is life in Russia like for those who criticize Russia? And is it possible to

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54:32

Rolf-Dieter Heuer (general-director of CERN)

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2020/02/19

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, the largest science center on the Earth is celebrating 60 years of its existence. Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the CEO of CERN, came to Prague for a short time. What is elementary particle physics about? What tools does it use? What image of the micro world does it provide? What are its future prospects and what is the role of CERN in all this? Take a peep into the world of particles with Hyde Park

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54:11

Programmer Llewellyn Falco & Professor Jack Copeland

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2020/02/19

Programmer Llewellyn Falco is e.g. the author of the project Teaching Kids Programming. Professor Jack Copeland is a philosopher who specializes in computers and keeps the Turing Archive. Will computers be able to think one day like humans do? And what do they expect the near future of computers to be? We shot this at Academia Film Olomouc. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…english/16509/

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53:30

Denis McQuail (media theorist)

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2020/02/19

Denis McQuail, an English scientist specializing in media and communication theories. He wrote more than 12 books on mass media that focus on the usefulness and danger of mass communication. What is the importance of mass media? How do they affect individuals and groups of people? Are media in a crisis? See what one of the most famous media theoreticians thinks about it. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…edia-theorist/

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52:27

Václav Větvička (18. 1. 2020)

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2020/02/19

O české přírodě a čtení z letokruhů stromů. O rostlinách, keřích i nejstarších stromech. O českých zahrádkách i o tom, co - jak říká - "musí být k snědku". www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…0411058090118/

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55:42

Lawrence M. Krauss (theoretical physicist and...

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2020/02/19

Lawrence M. Krauss considerably contributed to dark matter research and is so far the only holder of the awards of all three most prestigious physical companies in the world. The magazine Scientific American dubbed him one of the socially most involved intellectuals of our times. He stars in the film Unbelievers where he, together with such icons as Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and Woody Allen, fights for critical and rational thinking in society. He was nominated for the Grammy Award

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54:07

Paul Von Blum (historian)

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2020/02/19

Professor Paul von Blum at the University of California focuses on African-American studies, history and the fight for civil rights. He has almost 50 years of experience with political activism – since the 1960s when the African-American Civil Rights Movement started. He personally participated in several political demonstrations, including the legendary March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on 28 August 1963, during which Martin Luther King gave his famous speech “I Have a Dream.” What

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55:38

Bruno Leibundgut (science director of the European...

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2020/02/19

The former science director of the European Southern Observatory, the world’s largest astronomical observatory. He helped to develop the world’s most powerful telescope (VLT) in Chile and contributed to many major discoveries of current astronomy. He was a member of one of the two teams that confirmed the accelerating expansion of the universe. Three US astronomers were awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery. What is the structure of the universe? Bruno Leibundgut gave

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55:17

Karel Zeman & Valentine Davydyants

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2020/02/19

What is the future of maritime transport? What is the protection against pirates? These questions were answered in Hyde Park Civilization by Karel Zeman, captain of long-distance maritime transport who managed an attack of pirates by the Philippine Coast. And what is it like to steer the world’s biggest icebreaker? You asked Valentine Davydyants, captain of the icebreaker “50 Years of Victory” who brought the Olympic torch to the North Pole. His answers are in Russian. The moderator speaks

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53:38

Orley Ashenfelter (economist, Princeton University)

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2020/02/19

Orley Ashenfelter, a professor of economics at Princeton University, a former president of the American Economic Association and an editor-in-chief of the American Economic Review. He was one of the first to use natural experiments in economics years ago, which up until then had been used exclusively in natural sciences. What does one of the world’s most prominent academic economists think about the world economic situation? How has the role of economic research for top US government

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55:14

George Elwood Smith (Nobel Prize laureate,...

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2020/02/19

George Elwood Smith, a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics, was an exclusive guest of Hyde Park Civilization. He is a co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD) that has changed our lives forever. It is used on a daily basis - e.g. in phones and cameras, in medicine by physicians, in mapping by geodesists, in telescopes by astronomers looking into the deep of the universe. Yet, its basic structure was done in an hour. How did he come up with such a revolutionary device? What was it

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56:44

David Nixon (space architect, helped building the ISS...

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2020/02/19

He participated in Skylab projects and international space stations. He designs habitats for extreme environments not only on the Earth but also e.g. on the Moon or Mars. Space architect David Nixon was the guest of Hyde Park Civilization. https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/213411058091109-david-nixon

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55:00

Hyde Prark Civilizace ENG - Natalya Gorbanevskaya...

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2020/02/19

Natalya Gorbanevskaya, a courageous woman who with seven others took part in the 1968 Red Square demonstration against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. She was incarcerated, declared to be of unsound mind and locked up in a psychiatric hospital. After her release, she became involved in protests against Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s deportation from the USSR and against the use of psychiatric facilities to torture political prisoners. One of the magnificent eight answered your questions

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53:41

Andrew Feustel (astronaut, NASA)

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2020/02/19

Astronaut Andrew Feustel was an exclusive guest of Hyde Park Civilization. We overcame 8,793 km and seven time zones to pre-shoot the interview to fit Andrew’s time schedule. The connection between Prague and the Johnson Space Center in Houston worked. We talked about the Space Shuttle Columbia and Challenger disasters and about three other space shuttles. In the studio we also had the book Cosmic Songs and the plush toy Mole that Andrew took with him on his missions in Space Shuttle

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54:07

Gregorii Toshinski (nuclear scientist, author of...

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2020/02/19

Professor Gregorii Toshinski, an 85-year-old Russian scientist, one of the fathers of nuclear energy and the inventor of the fastest nuclear submarines in the world and a small reactor that could be the future of nuclear energy, accepted our invitation to Hyde Park Civilization. We pre-shot the interview with our questions in September and provide the Russian version of the professor’s answers. The moderator speaks in Czech. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…ar-submarines/

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55:22

Rick McCallum (Star Wars producer)

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2020/02/19

Rick McCallum produced The Star Wars Trilogy, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as well as the music video “Undercover” for The Rolling Stones, which MTV named the Best Video of the Decade. How are mega films produced? What are his best memories of the 30-year cooperation with George Lucas? How difficult are the best US actors to work with? What is he planning now? And does he like 3D movies? You will find Rick McCallum’s answers in English (the moderator speaks in Czech)

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Vint Cerf (vice-president and chief Internet...

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2020/02/19

The Internet – how will it evolve? Where does the freedom on the web end and its abuse start? We contacted Vint Cerf, the vice-president of Google and “the father of the Internet,” in the USA via Google Hangout. He is now working on an interplanetary Internet, i.e. on how to communicate with space probes. The interview is in the original version. Hyde Park Civilization also invited Josef Šlerka, the head of New Media Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University. This part was

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54:23

Stefan Hell (Nobel Prize for Chemistry laureate)

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2020/02/19

He broke the barrier that was supposed to be unbreakable and thanks to him we can see for example how cells in our brain change - Stefan Hell, a laureate of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He invented the STED microscope that allows us to look at living cells and their parts in much more detail than ever before. The invention has an enormous impact on medicine, biology and chemistry. He was born in communist Romania and at 15 fled with his parents to West Germany. His scientific career

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