Planetary Limits: This is a drawing/comic of a talk Robert McLauchlan of Massey University did for the Institute of Government and Policy Studies at Victoria University.
Topics include: The magical thinking of the air travel industry and the need for a reduction in global consumption.
Danyl McLauchlan gives a lecture on the history of effective altruism and what it means to be good.
There was a reading list. I didn’t write it down.
Dr. Erin Harrington gives a lecture inspired by the photography of Marianna Simnett. She discusses monstrous beauty in relation to Sleeping Beauty, Hitchcock, David Lynch and Under the Skin.
Hosted by Wellington City Gallery.
David Skegg gives the Sir Frank Holmes Memorial Lecture, 2020. He talks about the lessons we can learn from the CoVID-19 pandemic.
Lord Gus O’Donnell giving the Sir Frank Holmes Memorial Lecture, 2018. He spoke about building better states and global architecture.
Mike Joy and Nathan Surendran give a lecture on Biophysical Economics for the IGPS.
Apparently our non-renewal use is like having 147 slaves each. And if you think renewables are going to save us, you need to consider that we currently need the non-renewables to make things that will capture solar and wind energy.
Jan O. Jonsson and Carina Mood presented research about generational income inequality. Despite all income brackets on the whole doing better than their parents, if we have richer parents we are more likely to do better out of our education in terms of income. However, when comparing Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S. (Sweden having much lower correlation between parental/child income and the U.S. and U.K. having a bigger gap), it seemed that the bigger gap was not attributable to education, and instead was a direct result of the income itself. Unfortunately this means that we can’t just fix the education system advantage to reduce inequality but well done Sweden on having an education system, according to the figures, that is more likely to increase income mobility.
Moustaches, Whiskers and Beards: Lucinda Hawksley uses images from London’s National Portrait Gallery to illustrate a history of facial hair.
The Creative Brain: David Eagleman giving a lecture on creativity and the brain at AWF 2018.
“The more raw stuff you absorb, the more you can be creative.”
Julie Arliss gives a series of lectures about time, life and answering Oxbridge questions.
I have taken students to Julie Arliss’ conferences for the last few years. I don’t always agree with all of the underlying premises but there is always something to think about.
