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00:04:49

Living in the Second Nuclear Age

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2009/12/07

Contributor(s): Professor Arne Westad | When the Cold War ended, the threat of an all-out war between the superpowers ended with it. Nuclear war apparently went away. But while the political games changed, the nuclear arsenal that had done so much to keep the Cold War from ever turning hot remained very much in place. In this film, renowned historian of the Cold War Professor Arne Westad explains that not only have hopes for a dismantling of the weapons stockpile failed to be realised, but that the

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00:08:29

Ethics and the importance of dialogue

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2009/11/16

Contributor(s): Dr Alex Voorhoeve | Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgments objective? Why be moral? In this short film, Dr. Alex Voorhoeve, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, explains why he engaged eleven leading philosophers and scientists in conversation in order to elicit answers to these questions. Dr. Voorhoeve argues for the importance of the dialogue form for philosophical enquiry, and describes some of the

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08:29

Ethics and the importance of dialogue

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2009/11/16

Contributor(s): Professor Alex Voorhoeve

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00:08:44

Measuring the economic impact of a natural disaster

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2009/10/27

Contributor(s): Professor Janet Hunter | On 1 September 1923, an earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale struck the main Japanese island of Honshū. What wasn't immediately destroyed in the 4 – 10 minutes during which the ground shook was consumed by fires which swept through the largely wooden buildings of Tokyo and the port city of Yokohama – Japan's central import hub. In this short film Professor Janet Hunter, of the Department of Economic History, looks at how the Japanese economy reacted

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08:44

Measuring the economic impact of a natural disaster

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2009/10/27

Contributor(s): Professor Janet Hunter

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00:07:38

As birds need ornithologists: science and philosophy...

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2009/10/15

Contributor(s): Dr Roman Frigg | Scientists produce the technologies that characterise modern life and their theories help us to understand how the world works – they are transparently useful. But why do we need philosophers of science? In this short film Dr Roman Frigg, a former theoretical physicist who is now senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, argues that all science is the result of a particular philosophical attitude. One of the tasks of philosophers

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07:38

As birds need ornithologists: science and philosophy...

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2009/10/15

Contributor(s): Professor Roman Frigg

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07:30

Colonising Knowledge in the Kingdom of Kandy

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2009/09/08

Contributor(s): Dr Sujit Sivasundarum

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Colonising Knowledge in the Kingdom of Kandy

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2009/09/08

Contributor(s): Dr Sujit Sivasundarum | In this short film Dr Sujit Sivasundarum, from the Department of International History, challenges the idea that European colonists brought Modernity in the form of systematic knowledge to countries such as Sri Lanka. He argues that it is not just territory that is occupied by a colonising force, local knowledge, too, is also absorbed and utilised by the colonisers. Dr Sivasundarum's research looks at the Kingdom of Kandy, a state set deep in the forested

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06:36

The Politics of Personal Identity

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2009/08/20

Contributor(s): Dr Edgar Whitely

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00:06:36

The Politics of Personal Identity

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2009/08/20

Contributor(s): Dr Edgar Whitely | The Government's much vilified identity card scheme overreaches its aim of protecting us from identity fraud and could leave us more - not less - vulnerable, according to Dr Edgar Whitley from LSE's Information Systems and Innovation Group.In this short film Dr Whitley warns that in their proposed form, ID cards fail to distinguish the separate tasks of authentication and identification - forcing us to disclose more personal information than necessary in situations

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00:07:13

Bioweapons: risk and response

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2009/07/14

Contributor(s): Dr Filippa Lentzos | Anthrax, smallpox, plague - biological weapons provoke a special fear in us. Whatever the reasons for this, it is not because they have proven to be especially lethal in comparison to conventional weapons, according to Dr Filippa Lentzos. In this film Dr Lentzos, a senior researcher with BIOS - LSE's centre for the study of bioscience - explains why the US Government, along with the security and pharmaceutical industries, have an interest in nurturing a culture

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07:13

Bioweapons: risk and response

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2009/07/14

Contributor(s): Dr Filippa Lentzos

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00:07:50

Five challenges for saving the planet

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2009/06/15

Contributor(s): Lord Nicholas Stern | Being green is often seen as a form of modern Puritanism: environmental degradation is the price we have paid for our luxurious lives, and frugality and discomfort is the debt we must pay for planetary survival. But LSE's Lord Nicholas Stern is more optimistic. He explains how we can both manage climate change and also usher in a new era of global prosperity in this short film. Lord Stern's blueprint for managing climate change. Proper management of climate

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07:50

Five challenges for saving the planet

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2009/06/15

Contributor(s): Lord Stern

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00:07:59

Psychotic savants

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2009/06/01

Contributor(s): Dr Christopher Badcock | In his new book, 'The Imprinted Brain', Dr Christopher Badcock (LSE, Sociology) presents a radical revision to the current classification of mental disorders. His proposal is that we might understand disorders with reference to their position on a "mentalistic spectrum," which arrays mental disorders according to the degree to which sufferers have beliefs about the thoughts and intentions of other minds. In this film, Dr Badcock discusses one of the curious

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07:59

Psychotic savants

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2009/06/01

Contributor(s): Dr Christopher Badcock

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08:21

Panic on the Streets of London

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2009/05/26

Contributor(s): Mirko Draca

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00:08:21

Panic on the Streets of London

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2009/05/26

Contributor(s): Mirko Draca | What effect does raising the number of police have on crime? It might seem obvious that more police means fewer crimes - but things aren't that simple. For a start, there's the so called "endogeneity problem". Research economist Mirko Draca explains how the July 2005 terrorist attacks became a "natural experiment".

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00:07:27

Dysfunctional markets

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2008/10/28

Contributor(s): Dr Paul Woolley | The huge expansion of the global financial system in recent decades has now culminated in a devastating downfall. 'It has revealed deep flaws in the structure and functioning of finance, as well as in our understanding of how it works,' says Dr Paul Woolley, a former fund manager and IMF economist, who last year funded two research centres at LSE and the University of Toulouse for the study of market dysfunctionality. The two centres are set to produce a stream of

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