Academic Talk - General

Academic Talk is a section of the Academic Conferences International website on which we are placing a links to interesting talks and discussions. This website will contain links to both pre-recorded talks and discussions on such platforms as TED and Youtube etc and also material which we will create for the use of members of the academic community. All academics are welcome to use this facility including teachers, researchers, and students.

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This page contains a list of links to presentations that we have categorised as General. We trust that this website will be useful to all those involved in teaching and in research as well as the community of students. There is no cost associated with using this website.

	Subject	Description	Time Required	Speaker	Affiliation	Source
1	What makes great ideas? (Part 1)	An in-depth look at the roots of ideas	10mins	Sir John Hegarty	Bartle Bogle Hegarty, UK	You Tube
	What makes great ideas? (Part 2)	The Presidents Lecture from idee09	10mins	Sir John Hegarty	Bartle Bogle Hegarty, UK	You Tube
	What makes great ideas? (Part 3)		10mins	Sir John Hegarty	Bartle Bogle Hegarty, UK	You Tube
	What makes great ideas? (Part 4)		10mins	Sir John Hegarty	Bartle Bogle Hegarty, UK	You Tube
	What makes great ideas? (Part 5)		10mins	Sir John Hegarty	Bartle Bogle Hegarty, UK	You Tube
	What makes great ideas? (Part 6)		10mins	Sir John Hegarty	Bartle Bogle Hegarty, UK	You Tube
2	10 ways the world could end	Problems and proposed solutions?	30mins	Stephen Petranek	Weider History Group	TED
3	Tales from the Jungle – part 1 of 6	Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman – Nature or Nurture?	10mins	Unknown	BBC Chanel 4	You Tube
4	Tales from the Jungle – part 1 of 6	Who was Bronislaw Malinowski	10mins	Unknown	BBC Chanel 4	You Tube
5	18 Minutes with an agile mind	What the future will bring	18mins	Clifford Stoll	Independent	You Tube
6	Where good ideas come from?	The case for a mature hunch	4mins	Steven Johnson	Independent Author and thinker	You Tube
7	The Ascent of Money	How Planet Finance came to dominate Planet Earth.	19mins	Niall Ferguson	The RSA organisation	You Tube
8	Things they don’t tell you about Capitalism	23 Things	32mins	Ha-Joon Chang	The RSA organisation	You Tube
9	Marketing Strategy	Product, Brand and Customer Management	6mins	Philip Kotler	London Business School	You Tube
10	The Ansoff Matrix	Marketing Fundamentals	9mins		Oxford Learning Lab	You Tube
11	Double digit growth in good times and bad	Is sustained double digit growth feasible?	10mins	Michael Treacy	GEN3 Partners Inc	You Tube
12	The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy	Harvard Business Review interview	13mins	Michael E. Porter	Harvard University	You Tube
13	The roots of plant intelligence	Plant neurobiologist – vegetarian experimentation	14mins	Stefano Mancuso	International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology	TED
14	Let my dataset change your mindset	Historical statistical perspective on modernity	20mins	Hans Rosling	Karolinska Institute	TED
15	The Trap	Game Theory and beyond	10mins multi-part documentary	Adam Curtis	BBC Documentary	You Tube
16	On the paradox of choice	The Paradox of Choice	19mins	Barry Schwartz	Swarthmore College	TED
17	Bad Ideas?	Public engagement with science	1h11mins	Robert Winston	Imperial College	You Tube
18	Anthropology – Science and Humanity	The Origins of Language	1h19mins	Lowell Gustafson	Villanova University	You Tube
19	This is broken	A tour of things poorly designed	20mins	Seth Godin	Marketing Entrepreneur	TED
20	Where good ideas come from	Environments that produce innovation	18mins	Steven Johnson	Author	TED
21	Superfreakonomics - Alturism	Are humans all motivated by self interest?	10mins	Levitt and Dubner	The RSA organisation	You Tube
22	21^st century enlightenment	What has shaped the collective consciousness?	11mins	Matthew Taylor	The RSA organisation	You Tube
23	The Secret Powers of Time	Past, present and future	10mins	Philip Zimbardo	The RSA organisation	You Tube