According to Anand Giridharadas, ““the global elite’s efforts to ‘change the world’ preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve.” This animation by Cognitive distills his full talk at RSA down to about five minutes. You can also read his book about this.
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Data scientist Cathy O’Neil reveals the truth about algorithms. From a talk given at the RSA in London, 2017. Animation by Niceshit Studio and Cabeza Patata.
RSA=Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
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In 2014, economist Kate Raworth spoke to the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). This excerpt was animated by Marija Jacimovic, designed by Milan Perisic, and produced by Benoit Detalle. See the full presentation here.
Why do you think you’re right and everyone else is wrong? Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt spoke about this to the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). See the full presentation here.
Animation by Sophie Koko Gate.
Dr. Haidt’s current projects include Heterodox Academy and OpenMind.
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John Lloyd questions whether intelligence is really all it’s cracked up to be. From Mr. Lloyd’s 2010 talk at the RSA. Animation by Together.
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Author Ian Leslie spoke to the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) about the power of curiosity, and animator Georgina Venning illustrated a crucial minute of his talk. An RSA Student Design Award winner.
See the full lecture here.
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Dr. Ha-Joon Chang explains why you can (and should) “arm yourself with some facts” about economics. His address to the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) can be seen in full here, but the animated excerpt above is even more fun.
Illustrator: Andrew Park of Cognitive Media for RSA Animate.
Related:
Ha-Joon Chang website
RSA Citizens’ Economic Council
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Michael Pollan addressed the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) about a simple way to eat healthy without a rulebook or fad diets. Video of his lecture is here, but the short animated excerpt above is more fun.
Illustrator: Kerry Hyndman for Damn Fine Media.
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