Acclaimed neuroscientist Tali Sharot visits the RSA to explain the biological bias of optimism, and its effect on our lives and societies.

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Added: Tue May 15 18:58:15 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon May 14 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 19:40

Memory champion Joshua Foer asks: how will we adapt to a new culture where most memories are stored outside the brain?

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Added: Thu May 03 10:24:24 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon Apr 23 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 16:11

In an increasingly social world, author Susan Cain argues that we undervalue the power of the introvert at our peril.

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Added: Thu May 03 10:08:22 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon Apr 30 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 08:08

Cultural historian Roman Krznaric reveals how the art of empathy can not only enrich one's own life but also help to create social change.

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Added: Tue May 01 00:08:15 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon Apr 16 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 19:17

One of the worlds most esteemed psychologists, Roy F Baumeister visits the RSA to explain why willpower and self-control is one of the most important aspects of individual and societal wellbeing.

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Added: Wed Apr 18 19:26:10 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon Mar 26 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 15:55

Leading evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban visits the RSA to argue that there is no "I" but that instead each of us is a contentious "we".

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Added: Sat Mar 24 03:08:20 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon Mar 12 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 17:35

Chandran Nair argues that the Western model of consumption-led economic growth cannot be replicated in Asia. This statement is not new, but Chandran offers a new perspective from the Asian point of view.

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Added: Thu Mar 15 00:12:16 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon Mar 05 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 15:12

Joseph S. Nye, Jr, one of America's leading policy intellectuals, and originator of the term soft power, visits the RSA to look at what has happened to American power from the time of Kennedy and Khrushchev through to the present day.

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Added: Thu Feb 23 01:25:14 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon Feb 20 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 18:47

Martin Nowak and Roger Highfield explore the basic laws of cooperation - Kin Selection, Direct Reciprocity, Indirect Reciprocity, Network Reciprocity and Group Selection - in order to explain some of the most fundamental mechanics beneath everyday life.

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Added: Wed Feb 22 02:12:14 UTC 2012
Air date: Sun Jan 22 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 27:11

Co-founder of the non-governmental organization Carolina for Kibera and former marine Rye Barcott explores the contrasts of social entrepreneurship in Africa and counter-insurgency in the Marines as they clashed and converged in his head and heart.

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Added: Wed Feb 01 23:20:27 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon Jan 23 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 21:23

Tim Wu, a Columbia Law professor and author visits the RSA to deliver an essential review of information technology history and to share his unique insight into the next chapter of global communications.

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Added: Mon Jan 30 23:56:14 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon Jan 30 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 11:23

MIT technology and society specialist Professor Sherry Turkle describes new, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents and children, and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community, intimacy and solitude.

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Added: Mon Jan 30 23:56:14 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon Jan 30 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 20:14

Anthony Giddens introduces a range of new concepts and proposals designed to address the most formidable challenge humanity faces this century.

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Added: Mon Jan 30 20:48:21 UTC 2012
Air date: Thu Oct 27 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 16:34

Renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how the 'divided brain' has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society.

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Added: Mon Jan 30 20:48:21 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon Jan 09 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 32:17

Steven Pinker, one of the world's most exciting public thinkers, presents a radical re-assessment of human progress.

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Added: Mon Jan 30 20:48:21 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon Oct 31 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 22:43

Acclaimed social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin explores how internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create a powerful Third Industrial Revolution.

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Added: Thu Jan 19 00:32:15 UTC 2012
Air date: Thu Nov 03 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 20:55

Join Professor Robert Frank as he argues that in the next century Charles Darwin will unseat Adam Smith as the intellectual founder of economics.

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Added: Thu Jan 19 00:00:13 UTC 2012
Air date: Thu Nov 10 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 20:06

Join economist Tim Harford at the RSA as he brings you the principles you need in business and in life, to survive, innovate and prosper in a complex and ever-shifting world.

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Added: Wed Jan 11 23:18:13 UTC 2012
Air date: Wed Jan 11 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 16:06

Architect Michael Pawlyn shows how nature offers a sourcebook of extraordinary design solutions to equip us for the challenges of building a sustainable future.

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Added: Tue Jan 10 23:28:15 UTC 2012
Air date: Thu Sep 29 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 13:05

Renowned academic and author of 'The Black Swan' Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses his groundbreaking ideas and their relevance to the current economic crisis.

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Added: Tue Jan 10 22:29:13 UTC 2012
Air date: Tue Jan 10 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 19:55