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Sydney Ideas is the University of Sydney's premier public lecture series program, bringing the world

Episodes

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How might understanding childhood development lead to genuinely intelligent machines? Young childr

How can we close the widening gap between rich and poor? Political economist Frank Stilwell draws

Improving our cities and housing conditions can increase our quality of life, prevent disease, and h

The unprecedented challenges on our collective horizon require a shift in thinking from the factiona

What are the consequences of the choices we make when we feed our animal companions>? How does this

Living longer: why, and how?

2019/9/5

Ageing is the main cause of chronic diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

What does national security, data security and the changing face of legislation mean for free speech

As the online world increasingly spills into the real world, urgent questions are being asked about

What is the limit of our brain capacity and how can we translate potential brainpower into powerful

How We Spend Time

2019/8/19

How does our identity determine how we use our time? Economist Daniel Hamermesh will discuss the rol

Polar extremes

2019/8/13

Polar regions are increasingly at the centre of environmental, geo-political and cultural shifts.

As global movements such as #MeToo and #TimesUp rapidly gain momentum in exposing systemic sexual as

Hear from one of the greatest astrophysicists and role models of our time. Best known for her discov

The world has traditionally relied heavily on the 'business as usual model' of industrial food produ

Climate change, resource extraction and increasing levels of extinction present unprecedented challe

Humans' contribution to climate change is an important prompt for us to consider other global injust

How does language determine what we know or how we experience the world? As the online realm increa

Does language control us?

2019/6/6

Language is sometimes viewed as a window on the mind, but it is equally a tool, a weapon, or perhaps

Insights from the past to transform our environmental future Archaeology can help us understand how

As part of Seymour's Centre's premiere season of 'Made to Measure' by Alana Valentine, this special