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Week May 30th with Gary Kasparov, Beau Lotto & more
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Newsletter May 2017
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14.06.2017
Travel & Exploration: Mount
Everest, French Polynesia, the
North Pole, Tudor London — and
the Search for Bees
Today's most original travel writers - Bonita
Norris, Dave Goulson, Geoff Dyer and
Stephen Alford - come together to explore
how travel raises in acute form the most
fundamental questions.
22.06.2017
A Masterclass in Leadership
(understood through Football)
What makes a great leader in business or in
football? In this groundbreaking talk
developed after extensive research amongst
general managers, executives, and others
skilled at building elite teams. Sam Walker
will identify the seven characteristics shared
by all elite captains/ leaders and explode the
myth of the transcendent celebrity
superleader.
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how to: HIGHLIGHTS
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05.06.2017
An Evening With Sir Michael Parkinson
with Sir Michael Parkinson
We celebrate the life and career of a man who in
over 50 years in the business, has interviewed
over 2000 of the most important cultural figures
of the 20th and 21st centuries and won awards
for journalism, radio and television broadcasting.
12.06.2017
An Evening of True Adventure. SOE
and SAS Special Forces Operations
05.06.2017
Evgeny Kissin: Memoirs & Reflections
Evgeny Kissin in conversation with Gilead
Cooper.
Meet the musical wunderkind of our age. pianist
Evgeny Kissin. Born in Moscow in 1971, Kissin
aged 12 performed both Chopin piano concertos
in the Moscow Conservatory, something
unattempted since the turn of the century.
GJ
GJ
19.06.2017
An Evening with Graham Norton in
conversation with Alice Levine
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during the Second World War.
with Graham Norton and Alice Levine
with Ben Macintyre and Rick Stroud
Join us for an evening of true adventure and
derring-do. as Rick Stroud and Ben McIntyre
exchange stories of the SCE women and the
SAS men who went to ground all over Nazi-
occupied Europe.
.J
06.06.2017
A Guide to the Unknown Universe
with Daniel Whiteson and Jorge Cham
From Jorge Cham the creator of the 50 million
viewed PHD comics and Daniel Whiteson a
Professor of Particle Physics. this illustrated talk
by a cartoonist and a physicist is perfect for
anyone who's curious about all the great
mysteries physicists are going to solve next.
Many talks explain what we know about the
universe. This one tackles all the weird stuff we
haven't figured out ...
The sharpest wit in broadcasting. Graham Norton
joins fellow presenter Alice Levine for a
conversation exploring his life, work and critically
acclaimed debut novel, Holding. a richly textured
detective story set in the remote Irish village of
Duneen.
GJ
GJ
22.06.2017
How To Excel at Interviews (A
Masterclass in Interview Technique)
with James Reed, chairman of recruitment
specialists REED, in conversation with
Heather McGregor.
Learn the secrets to excelling at interviews, direct
from top interviewers and recruiters, in this
conversation between James Reed, chairman of
recruitment specialists REED and the former
Miss Moneypenny. Heather McGregor, the owner
of Taylor Bennett. the executive search firm.
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how to: SCIENCE WEEK
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30.05.2017
Artificial Intelligence and the Game of
the Century — Kasparov vs. Deep Blue
with Garry Kasparov, Michael Hawley
Former World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov
talks about where Machine Intelligence ends and
Human Creativity begins — followed by a
conversation with legendary former MIT Media
Lab Professor Mike Hawley.
In May 1997 the greatest chess player in the
world was defeated for the first time — by an IBM
supercomputer named Deep Blue.
30.05.2017
The Science of Seeing Differently
with Beau Lotto
Renowned neuroscientist Beau Lotto whose TED
talk has had nearly 5m views presents a
groundbreaking guide to understanding
perception, which will transform the way we see,
and unlock our ability to create, innovate and
effect change.
In the aftermath of 2016, many feel weighed
down by uncertainty. But, what you may not know
is that while the brain hates uncertainty..
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31.05.2017
A Masterclass in the Science of First
Impressions
with Alexander Todorov
Pioneering Princeton University Psychologist,
Alexander Todorov, is one of the world's leading
researchers in the field of first Impressions. His
work shows that we make up our minds about
others after seeing their faces for a fraction of a
second—and these snap judgments predict all
kinds of important decisions. In this unmissable
talk Alexander will give us a Masterclass in the
modem science of first impressions.
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01.06.2017
The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
with Dean Buonomano
In this talk Dean Buonomano, a leading
neuroscientist and professor at UCLA, "who does
for the neuroscience of time what Stephen
Hawking did for the physics of time' - Craig
Callender. professor of philosophy, University of
California. will investigate the relationship
between the brain and time: What is time? Why
does time seem to speed up or slow down? Is
our sense that time flows an illusion?
GJ
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how to: TECHNOLOGY
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10.07.2017
Harness the Digital Revolution
with Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
In this major talk, the acclaimed MIT Professors Eric Brynjolfsson and Andrew
McAfee, co-authors of the bestselling `The Second Machine Age', will present a
user's guide to the Digital Economy explaining how digital technologies are
changing the ways that companies organise themselves, perform, improve and
compete.
READ MORE
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