Technology
The Economics of Enough – Is ‘Listening’ the new Black?
Culturally, and in so many other ways innovative and tracking technology has ensured that we are all now connected, whether we like it or not. While we all have to look to our own countries first, it is blatantly obvious that economic recovery in the next few years hinges on a real dialogue taking place between all nations, which includes planning for action if people and our cultures and societies are to achieve real outcomes.
The Conservatory, Crystal Palaces and the Climate Revolution
Today with the natural world under threat and in many places rapidly disappearing, the role of the conservatory and greenhouse has become more important than ever before. It is not so much any more about conserving individual plants, which have been transplanted from their native habitat, but rather the conservation of nature itself.
InForum Group Invitation – Social Media in Business & Beyond
From brands to business from professionals to politics the InForum Group’s Social Media panel will be sure to emphasize that the influence of social media and social networks can no longer be ignored
Monet’s Garden – Impressions of the Master Artist @ New York
The exhibition Monet’s Garden in The New York Botanical Garden from May 19 to October 21 2012 is sure to be a treat for all seasons, ravishing the senses and providing a fabulous feast for the soul.
Change – Bringing about a Sustainable Creative World
Change is threatening because it means things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging and to the confident inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better”
Conserving Culture – Cairo Genizah Fragments Now Online
The Cairo Genizah fragments are an accumulation of Jewish manuscript fragments in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. They are now online, so they can be studied by scholars and all of those with an interest in the rich heritage of the Jewish tradition.
National Year Reading 2012 – Creating the Future of Learning
Do you Love2Read? 2012 in Australia is the National Year of Reading. Ensuring that Australians become a nation that loves to read is what it is all about. It’s also about boosting the literacy of children and adults, especially on a screen.
Happy New Year – Welcome 2012 as a Creative Year to Remember
It is time to cast off old thinking and embrace the new. 2012 is a great place to start formulating ideas that will help invent and innovate the future.
TED -Technology, Entertainment, Design – Ideas to Talk About
When TED2011 took place at Long Beach, California delegates were talking, playing and listening to music, enjoying comedy and dance and much much more. They were emailing, blogging, tweeting, eating and networking while enjoying caffeine-fueled conversation between the program’s many sessions.
The Hour, if only there were a few more minutes each episode
From satirical shifting sexual mores to social concerns, from Soviet spies to MI6 assassins, The Hour created and written by Abi Morgan, is a stylish new British drama about journalism during the 1950′s
Ten Thousand Thundering Typhoons, The Adventures of Tintin
Ten thousand thundering typhoons. At last, Tintin is coming to the screen. Blistering Barnacles, adventure has a new name. And it starts with A for Art.
Rhetoric – The Art of Persuasion is a Cultural Imperative
Words well delivered can be loaded up with many meanings, both positive and negative. They can infiltrate and influence our thoughts, our ideas, and opinions because words are how the world works. The style of life words have produced is what we enjoy in Australia today. Many have died to protect those rights and our liberty under the law.
Progressing and maturing by fault, leadership for a new age
Progress hinges not on eradicating mistakes but on our success at perpetuating them? By making good mistakes we learn to forgive, progress and mature by fault
Studio Schools – An Education Revolution for the Real World
Studio Schools are a new kind of learning institution being established in the UK where small teams of teenage kids learn by working on projects that are “for real.”. This was an idea first established during the Renaissance period in Europe (14 – 17th centuries) where work and learning were integrated; you worked by learning and learned by working.
Remember Motoring – Touring on the route â Corniche
It’s an incredible motoring experience to drive the route â Corniche in France, from the lively undervalued city of Marseilles, where you feel the wealth and glamour surround you as you leave following in the wake of Ferrari’s driven by diamond encrusted millionaires to travel via St Tropez, Cannes and Nice all the way to Monte Carlo.
The Code – Where Math & the Modern World Magically Converge
You will find number connections between trees and mountains, clouds and waterfalls, nautilus shells and cicadas and in the formation of the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, which became known to the wider world through a talk given at the Royal Society at London in 1693. BBC TV presenter Marcus du Sautoy who is gradually revealing and cracking simultaneously what he calls The Code, recently revisited this amazing natural phenomenon.
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