Month: September 2017

In Our Time: Annie Besant

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In Our Time: Annie Besant

Melvyn Bragg and his guests; Lawrence Goldman (University of Oxford), David Stack (University of Reading) and Yasmin Khan (University of London); discuss the life of the prominent 19th-century social reformer Annie Besant (1 October, 1847 – 20 September 1933).

In 1893 Annie Besant wrote: “it has always been somewhat of a grievance to me that I was born in London, ‘within the sound of Bow Bells”, when three-quarters of my blood and all my heart are Irish”1.

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A New World

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Cutaway view of Bernal Sphere. Art work: Rick Guidice, courtesy of NASA Ames Research Center
Exterior view of Bernal Sphere. Art work: Rick Guidice courtesy NASA Ames Research Center
Agricultural modules in cutaway view (multiple toroids). Art work: Rick Guidice, courtesy NASA Ames Research Center.
Interior of Bernal Sphere including human powered flight. Art work: Rick Guidice courtesy NASA Ames Research Center

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Onora O’Neill on Trust

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UCD honored Onora O’Neill by awarding her the UCD Ulysses Medal, on 8th September 2017.

The video above is of a TED talk given by Onora O’Neill in June 2013 entitled “What we don’t understand about trust.” The talk explores misapprehensions about trust and points out that what we really want is more trustworthiness. A link to the talk including transcript is here.

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