Podcasts about 21st century challenges

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Best podcasts about 21st century challenges

Latest podcast episodes about 21st century challenges

Alumni Weekend
Food, Health and the Future

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2011 33:06


Should we cut meat to three meals a week? Why are so many UK men predicted to become obese by 2020? Why might high yield crops in Asia hold the key to feeding the world's growing population? Join our panel of experts to find out what the future holds.

Alumni Weekend
Food, Health and the Future

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2011 33:06


Should we cut meat to three meals a week? Why are so many UK men predicted to become obese by 2020? Why might high yield crops in Asia hold the key to feeding the world's growing population? Join our panel of experts to find out what the future holds.

Alumni Weekend
What is Public in the Digital Age?

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2011 59:30


Use of the internet has raised major public issues around the definition of public and priavte information. Director of the Oxford Internet Institute Professor Bill Dutton examines how we can best reconcile the risks and opportunities presented.

Alumni Weekend
What is Public in the Digital Age?

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2011 59:30


Use of the internet has raised major public issues around the definition of public and priavte information. Director of the Oxford Internet Institute Professor Bill Dutton examines how we can best reconcile the risks and opportunities presented.

Alumni Weekend
Energy in the Future: Brenda Boardman

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2011 16:33


Part 3 of 3. Some of Oxford's leading experts discuss the issue of energy in the future, one of the greatest challenges facing the world as we move through the 21st century.

Alumni Weekend
Energy in the Future: Brenda Boardman

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2011 16:52


Part 3 of 3. Some of Oxford's leading experts discuss the issue of energy in the future, one of the greatest challenges facing the world as we move through the 21st century.

Alumni Weekend
Energy in the Future: Nick Eyre

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2011 14:26


Part 2 of 3. Some of Oxford's leading experts discuss the issue of energy in the future, one of the greatest challenges facing the world as we move through the 21st century.

Alumni Weekend
Energy in the Future: Nick Eyre

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2011 14:17


Part 2 of 3. Some of Oxford's leading experts discuss the issue of energy in the future, one of the greatest challenges facing the world as we move through the 21st century.

Alumni Weekend
Energy in the Future: James Marrow

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2011 16:28


Part 1 of 3. Some of Oxford's leading experts discuss the issue of energy in the future, one of the greatest challenges facing the world as we move through the 21st century.

Alumni Weekend
Energy in the Future: James Marrow

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2011 17:00


Part 1 of 3. Some of Oxford's leading experts discuss the issue of energy in the future, one of the greatest challenges facing the world as we move through the 21st century.

Alumni Weekend
Political Oxford

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2011 73:16


Why does Oxford produce so many politicians? How have the University's alumni shaped the political landscape? And how has this impacted on perceptions of the University, both in the UK and overseas?

Alumni Weekend
Political Oxford

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2011 73:16


Why does Oxford produce so many politicians? How have the University's alumni shaped the political landscape? And how has this impacted on perceptions of the University, both in the UK and overseas?

Alumni Weekend
Philanthropy: Mega-trend of the 21st Century

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2011 48:12


Dame Stephanie Shirley speaks about her personal philosophy of philanthropy, the importance of a social and cultural approach to giving, and her vision of the role of philanthrophy in the 21st century.

Alumni Weekend
Philanthropy: Mega-trend of the 21st Century

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2011 48:12


Dame Stephanie Shirley speaks about her personal philosophy of philanthropy, the importance of a social and cultural approach to giving, and her vision of the role of philanthrophy in the 21st century.

Alumni Weekend
The Responsibility to Protect in modern international relations

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2011 44:10


Jennifer Welsh and Hugo Slim from the Oxford Centre for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict discuss "The Responsibility to Protect" in contemporary international relations, and its role in key cases such as Libya and the post-election violence in Kenya.

Alumni Weekend
The Responsibility to Protect in modern international relations

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2011 44:10


Jennifer Welsh and Hugo Slim from the Oxford Centre for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict discuss "The Responsibility to Protect" in contemporary international relations, and its role in key cases such as Libya and the post-election violence in Kenya.

Alumni Weekend
Climate and Weather: The Ends of Acts of God?

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2011 65:55


Professor Myles Allen explains how research at Oxford allows us to quantify just how much climate change caused by past emissions is costing individuals, corporations and potentially entire countries.

Alumni Weekend
Climate and Weather: The Ends of Acts of God?

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2011 65:55


Professor Myles Allen explains how research at Oxford allows us to quantify just how much climate change caused by past emissions is costing individuals, corporations and potentially entire countries.

Alumni Weekend
What Next? Surviving the 21st Century

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2011 44:47


For his keynote lecture the Chancellor, Lord Patten of Barnes, examines the rapidly-growing list of challenges facing the world, from climate change to nuclear proliferation, migration to water and energy shortage.

Alumni Weekend
What Next? Surviving the 21st Century

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2011 44:47


For his keynote lecture the Chancellor, Lord Patten of Barnes, examines the rapidly-growing list of challenges facing the world, from climate change to nuclear proliferation, migration to water and energy shortage.

Alumni Weekend
Emerging infectious diseases

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2011 54:30


Emerging infectious diseases are often in the news but are there really more of them? Here we explore how infections invade human populations, how new pathogens adapt to become efficient infections of humans and how to predict what might happen next.

Alumni Weekend
Emerging infectious diseases

Alumni Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2011 54:30


Emerging infectious diseases are often in the news but are there really more of them? Here we explore how infections invade human populations, how new pathogens adapt to become efficient infections of humans and how to predict what might happen next.