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Winner: RSA / Nominet Trust Short Film Competition: Food Rules for Healthy People and Planet

8 Feb 2012

Award-winning food writer Michael Pollan shows how we can become more mindful of what we eat, and how we can make food choices that are better for ourselves and our environment.

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Runner-up: RSA / Nominet Trust Short Film Competition: Food Rules for Healthy People and Planet

8 Feb 2012

This film came second in the RSA / Nominet Trust Film Competition Award 2012. It was from this competition that the RSA Shorts series was born.

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RSA Animate – The Divided Brain

24 Oct 2011

Renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society.

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RSA Animate – Choice

30 Jun 2011

Professor Renata Salecl explores the paralysing anxiety and dissatisfaction surrounding limitless choice. Does the freedom to be the architects of our own lives actually hinder rather than help us?

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RSA Animate – The Internet in Society

22 Mar 2011

Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely emancipatory role in global politics.

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RSA Animate – Language as a Window into Human Nature

17 Feb 2011

Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings.

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RSA Animate – Changing Paradigms

14 Oct 2010

RSA Animate taken from a speech given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education expert and recipient of the RSA Benjamin Franklin award.

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RSA Animate – 21st Century Enlightenment

8 Sep 2010

Matthew Taylor explores the meaning of 21st century enlightenment, how the idea might help us meet the challenges we face today.

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RSA Animate – 21st Century Enlightenment

8 Sep 2010

Matthew Taylor explores the meaning of 21st century enlightenment, how the idea might help us meet the challenges we face today.

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RSA Animate – First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

4 Aug 2010

In this short RSA Animate, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek investigates the surprising ethical implications of charitable giving.