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Wolfson College, Oxford
United Kingdom
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Wolfson College is committed to sharing knowledge, inspiring change, and continuing to explore the human condition.
Founded in 1966, Wolfson is one of the University of Oxford's largest graduate colleges and truly unique in its academic scope and international reach.
The College motto, 'Humani nil alienum' - 'nothing to do with human beings is foreign to me' - expresses our ideal for intellectual curiosity in the betterment of the human condition.
Founded in 1966, Wolfson is one of the University of Oxford's largest graduate colleges and truly unique in its academic scope and international reach.
The College motto, 'Humani nil alienum' - 'nothing to do with human beings is foreign to me' - expresses our ideal for intellectual curiosity in the betterment of the human condition.
Fifty Years on the Cherwell: Five Interviews
These five interviews were recorded in 2024 to mark fifty years since Wolfson College, Oxford moved to its present site on the banks of the River Cherwell. This film was first shown as part of the 'Fifty Years on the Cherwell' celebration at Wolfson College on 29 June 2024.
00:00:20 - Professor Derek Wyatt
00:09:03 - Dame Cressida Dick
00:28:17 - Dr Henry Hardy
00:46:11 - Sue Hales
01:00:19 - Dame Hermione Lee
Interviewer: Sir Tim Hitchens.
© Wolfson College in the University of Oxford, 2024. All rights reserved.
00:00:20 - Professor Derek Wyatt
00:09:03 - Dame Cressida Dick
00:28:17 - Dr Henry Hardy
00:46:11 - Sue Hales
01:00:19 - Dame Hermione Lee
Interviewer: Sir Tim Hitchens.
© Wolfson College in the University of Oxford, 2024. All rights reserved.
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Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize 2024 Awards Ceremony
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Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin Recital at Wolfson College
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A recital given by pianist, composer, and Wolfson Visiting Scholar Dr Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin. Dr Abdyssagin came to Wolfson College to research the intersection of quantum mechanics and contemporary music, and his Michaelmas term recital traced these connections for the benefit of a packed audience in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium. Programme 04:55 - Frédéric Chopin, Fantaisie-Impromptu in C♯ min...
Brexit, What Next? - Lord David Frost at Wolfson College, University of Oxford
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Brexit discussion with former Brexit negotiator Lord David Frost, Professor Anne Deighton and Sir Tim Hitchens in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium. Filmed at Wolfson College on 19 October 2023. PLEASE NOTE: Every effort is made to credit copyright in these events, but we would always be delighted to hear from copyright owners to include any credits due in future.
Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize 2023 Awards Ceremony
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The Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize is held annually in memory of the late Professor Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014), poet and Fellow of Wolfson College, and is open to any postgraduate student at the University of Oxford. The 2023 theme was 'Disgrace'. The awards ceremony took place at Wolfson College at 6pm on Wednesday 18 January. PLEASE NOTE: Every effort is made to credit copyright in these event...
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals - Prof James Crabbe
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Professor James Crabbe delivered his lecture entitled "The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals" as part of the Old Wolves Talk series. The lecture took place in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium (LWA) on Thursday 18 May 2023. Prof Crabbe’s interests include climate change, evolution and adaptation, coral reefs, economics and policy development. A Supernumerary Fellow, he was previously a Governing ...
A CERN for Climate Change - Prof. Tim Palmer
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Wolfson's Earth Emergency Cluster presented a lecture by Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics Professor Tim Palmer. Abstract: There is no doubt that Earth is warming due to our emissions of greenhouse gases. However, our understanding of how climate is changing at the regional level is much poorer. For example, over most of the globe there is little agreement amongst contemporary...
HRH Queen Elizabeth II laying Wolfson College Oxford's Foundation Stone in 1968
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HRH Queen Elizabeth II laying Wolfson College Oxford's Foundation Stone in 1968
Michaelmas Term 2021 | Wolfson College President's Welcome Message
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Michaelmas Term 2021 | Wolfson College President's Welcome Message
Lifting of COVID-19 restrictions - Sir Tim Hitchens
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Lifting of COVID-19 restrictions - Sir Tim Hitchens
Trinity Term Week 07 - Sir Tim Hitchens
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Trinity Term Week 07 - Sir Tim Hitchens
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Trinity Term Week 06 - Sir Tim Hitchens
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What do bones tell us? The work of forensic anthropologists
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What do bones tell us? The work of forensic anthropologists
Trinity Term Week 04 - Sir Tim Hitchens
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Trinity Term Week 04 - Sir Tim Hitchens
Wolfson Haldane Lecture with John Ioannidis, 6 May 2021
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Trinity Term Week 03 - Sir Tim Hitchens
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Trinity Term Week 03 - Sir Tim Hitchens
Climate Change, and what can the world do about it?
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Trinity Term Week 02 - Sir Tim Hitchens
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Trinity Term Week 01 - Sir Tim Hitchens
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Welcome to Oxford in Trinity - Sir Tim Hitchens
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The Radical Politics and Restless Science of JBS Haldane
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The Radical Politics and Restless Science of JBS Haldane
Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize 2021 | Winner Announced
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Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize 2021 | Winner Announced
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Why does our gym not have one of these? Urgh
man made global warming is bs. we are coming out of an ice age. of course the world is warming. man can do nothing to prevent this,
Sir Tim, amazing discussion. But the concept of Genetic load put forward by JBS was regretful.
Not been mentioned
no peaceful movement ever caused meaningful change
A Most Enlightening Interview. Samanth and Sir Tim - Thank You! J B S Haldane was clearly startlingly brilliant, courageous - and a remarkably independent thinker. His work is so important; and has yet to receive its proper recognition... Together, you brought Haldane to life. Do hope a film will be made from the biography. For surely, Haldane's significance needs to be more widely understood.
Going vegan is the easiest most radical personal decision having the most impactful outcome.
veganism isn't sustainable at scale. sterilization is, though
@ba_charles veganism is more sustainable at scale than non-veganism, so I'm not sure what you're point is. It won't make up for unrestrained population growth but it's a hell of a lot better.
I wanted to listen to this but I can barely hear it
The usual Jacobin imbecilities.
Chomsky said all that and more years ago, but it's still true.
It's a shame the volume is so poor on this recording, it's an interesting talk .
Who made this volume so small and nobody can hear it.
Excellent talk!
he makes a great point about Debt and how getting into the debt black hole makes you 'Obey'. My advice to anyone - to sensitize yourself - by having a strong spiritual practice of some kind, and being, even if only online - supported by others of like mind. Be sensitive to the vibrations of people you meet. Even in a corporate environment, there are various layers. Find like minded people who also have a practice & support each other. Help others. Service to humanity in any situation you'll find yourself in. This way, when the environment no longer supports you, you will easily be lifted out of it (maybe fired at what seems the worst possible time!!!). Stay close to your inner guides.
Brilliant talks by inspiring women.
Very interesting lecture, thanks for sharing this. 👍
Have you tried arguing for a prosperous sustainable future based on magma energy; the limitless heat energy of the molten interior of the earth? NASA demonstrated the technology to harness energy directly from magma from 1975-1982. I thought we'd have it by now; endless amounts of base load clean energy to meet all our energy demands carbon free, plus desalinate, irrigate, recycle all waste and even capture carbon from the air. According to NASA there's massively more energy than sufficient - tens of thousands of times global energy demand. Have you tried arguing for application of that technology, rather than suggesting people engage in revolution - make a business case that climate change deniers can get on board with? Maybe you can convince the great and the good that it's in their interests - because in fact a far more prosperous, and profitable sustainable future is possible based on magma energy. Have you even tried making the case for a better future, before terrorising people and encouraging revolution, you malicious communist ignoramus?
Probably same reason(s) as with Nikola Tesla's energy tower at Wardencliffe in the US. Abstracting limitless free energy from the atmosphere. Which was of no appeal to the capitalistic money-makers. Or lack of uptake of alternative technology which powers 'UFO' technology; which has been back engineered at area 51, in America. As if so, the oil powered energy industry would be rendered defunct; overnight.🤔
I don’t agree with don’t act alone. Everyone has individual “power in the purse” to buy plant based food and avoid meet and dairy, as the AAI along with global crops grown to feed the animals, is the largest driver of climate change ; larger than all of transportation put together including all air travel. I’m not sure why George missed this elephant in the room aNd decided not to even mention it.
He’s saying that we can’t make the huge changes that need to be made by ONLY acting alone. He’s not saying that you shouldn’t stop eating meat or stop using single use plastic. He’s saying that it’s not enough and that’s it’s a way that the big companies distract us from the damage they are doing. We need system change, and system change can only come about from us acting as a community. We are more powerful together than we are as individuals.
he talks A LOT about this in his more recent talks.
Civilization itself is the problem. Nature culls. Problem solved.....
This was outstanding, I cannot understand why his voice is not louder.
The word Palestine is not centuries old. This video is just racist fake news.
We are not going to fight back in significant enough numbers, until it's too late. It's game over!
"Survival" requires self-correction. Know your Self or you have already been eliminated.
In Israel LBGTQ has equal rights in Palestinian society they suffer violence and threats
I guess the Ottoman Empire was not a colonial project?
What an amazing commuicator!
By now, George writes (in his latest column know to me): „I feel clearer about what effective political action looks like than I have ever done. But a major question remains. Given that we have left it so late, can we reach the social tipping point before we hit the environmental tipping point?“ …
Good question. I think it can be measured quite obectively in terms of the amount of carbon emmissions. Just keep an eye on our remaining carbon budgets remaining to us to avoid 2 degrees. When we see a drawdown in emmisions that will keep us in the budget you will know we have reached that social tipping point. Check out Kevin Anderson for some great analysis of our remaining carbon budgets and how well we are staying within them....spoiler alert, not very well. Best of luck, will see you on The Fabulous Riverboat
Okay, so by this logic, people have a right to engage in civil disobedience against the "green rules" he wants imposed on everyone, then? But of ocurse not. Rules he agrees with are the ones that everyone without exception must obey.
Where does he say or even suggest that? Please give time stamp it it’s this talk. I’ve listened to many of George’s talks and read many of his columns and never ever even heard the slightest of these suggestions. He seems like someone who is democratic by heart and thus supports protest and disobedience against authoritarianism on general, no matter what kind. He promotes what he calls “for the commons” where small communities should solve their own problems as far as possible. This is the complete opposite of “green rules” for everyone, but of course he supports standardized laws which everyone must follow because that is… you know the basis of modern society a judicial system do you know what year it is?
@@LeanAndMean44 Pretty much every talk he gives, he complains about companies not following regulations and rules. And presumably, in his Green New World, there would be strict rules about lots of things. So would people who did not agree with those rules be entitled to break them in protest?
@@richardgregory3684 the reply from apocalypse wow should have settled you down, but it didn't. Because you're not a good listener. Try to engage your brain a little more.
... as a German Biologist - it is the Amount, capacity, talent of Self Reliance - Emerson. Can you live with the Essentials all by yourself - ideally not even with any money. And create something to trade. This was the stability of Societies 200 Years ago until rapid engineering made us City Work Slaves in horrible Misery. Now the Ghettoes with unstoppable Crime, drugs and slow diseases. We breed our own destruction... and the Inuit and Touareg have nothing to share with us...
how ironic, he doesnt get the amount of carbon it takes to make a car czcams.com/video/KFlhUkudhzk/video.html
Just because you link the videos where he says something doesn’t mean you have proved why what he says is wrong. Regardless of this, pointing to one small mistake someone has done to dismiss every of his words or actions is something assholes and sociopaths do and this can be used to really dismiss anyone.
@@LeanAndMean44 well that is certainly the opening gambit of an asshole and sociopath. The fact he overlooked that is something worth pointing out. It doesn't dismiss all of what he is saying. Sorry about your anger issues, have a beautiful day
low resolution sound does not change the quality of what is being said. Charlie Parker gigs was recorded often with a single mic, he was pretty groovy too
And yours wearing jeans will demonstrating this!
Wolfson sounds like a good place to be. Thanks for the intro!
I got news for old George. We are already way beyond the carrying capacity of the earth.
He is a journalist. That's not true btw. The carrying capacity is estimated around ten billion. However it is wealthy INDIVIDUALS in western nations contributing politically and physically to GHG emissions and deforestation which is massacring the thin layer of life upon the earth rock
What are you basing this on?
@@blahdelablah some planetary boundaries are already crossed like the one for “novel entities” (chemical pollution) maybe that is the basis by the commenter should I deee explain himself.
@@LeanAndMean44 Can you explain a little further what you mean by the novel entities boundary?
Blm=the democrats "brown shirts"
I was there in the 1980's and it was and is a great place
George, I don't think I'm lying when I say, I have read just about everything you have ever written in the Guardian and that I've soaked up most of your lectures on CZcams tube. I remember many years ago one of your first forays into the televised news and your being clearly tested by the experience. I have seen you rise to that challenge and am always keen to listen, hoping to find and adopt some new way to try to articulate and talk about this predicament, because it fills me with dread. You have at 35 minutes already surpassed yourself. Keep on keeping on because it helps me keep on harping on.
Yes Roy, this man has staying power. I have a huge amount of respect for him & his work. He's seen the writing on the wall for a long, long time & few have heeded his warnings. I read something the other day that spoke multitudes. Quite inconsequential, it was just an aside at the end of a book review. 'Climate change is like death. No one wants to talk about it...'
Nice lump.
Political government not represent God
How if I decide to disobey YOU?
Then you’re a fool
He’s not telling you to obey him lol. He’s not suggesting that he’s going to be a dictator so I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Why would you recommend BBC to air this? Nobody watches BBC except brain dead people.
The US had learned from WWI that because it took over a year to start major productions of arms in 1917, it knew that it needed tp plan ahead before the Japanese attacked. There was a plan to just what to do to change the factories from making car to making planes. My second point is that we need to ration things so that money no longer matters for lifestyles. We can have a 3 tier system the workers get X amount, the middle class gets 2X amount, and the rich get just 3X. In my opinion we can't change prices enough to stop the rich from over consuming without killing all the workers because they don't have enough income to eat 500 calories a day.
You don't mention Citizens' Assemblies George, which are potentially the best way to educate a community. All the facts they get told are transparent and available, both about the problems and the possible solutions. As long as the question being posed is deep enough!! CAs are a loving gift to both citizens and politicians who are not in a majority but have been elected to represent a particular community. If one or two within the party which happens to be in power vote against the party, with their consciences, the CA can have a great effect.
Our government doesn't understand complex systems. They clearly didn't understand the complex system of 'Just in time' which had been controlling our economy for over 50 years until brexit, that's gone to hell in a handcart, how on earth are their profit crazed minds going to get their heads around complex climate systems interacting like the cogs of an engine. It's no good talking to the masses, it's the corporations who run the world and seem determined to destroy it. The politicians are bought off by the corporations.
A great talk but with a fundamental flaw, possibly used to make his point clearer; as he states early on, the brain is a complex system too, but then he goes on to simplify it- to suit his argument- that humans choose obedience over survival. The reasons for obedience are far more complex than this and an important area to discuss here. Of course time constraints didn’t allow that
This isn't really worth pointing out. His point that we choose obedience over survival is incredibly important and people do need to start resisting the march towards total ecocidal destruction.
once its pointed out, i was able (and i assume most average+ intellects would) to connect that we are social creatures. Obeying the cultural norms is HOW we survived to date. anyone who didnt obey was cast out of the tribe/community where survival was next to impossible. even when it became more probable, visible punishments like branding were used. Only recently have we been able to leave our childhood communities and start afresh in new ones without any detriment. It's a widespread understanding as far as i know, tho i do seem to have a stronger than usual interest in psychology and anthropology than most. Everyone feels this, even if they dont know it
@@kimwarburton8490 cultural norms are not necessarily good or bad.
Marvellous talk from every points of view. The reading through the eyes of complex systems, the explanation of systemic forces at play, the behavioural science of human's attitude towards what I would call social conformity rather than obedience. Neuroscience seems to highlight that is really a fear of exclusion from society that drives our inability to challenge the status quo. Hence, the divide-et-impera tactics of those who are interested in the perpetration of the status quo. It makes that question from the audience even more important: it would be great if George could help with a follow-up on which movement he sees as more in need of joiners.
Wonderful and inspiring talk. Thanks
I don’t think the systems we rely on are too complex to understand at all. Plenty of people understand the global financial system and have co-opted it for their own ends.
is he saying don't get jabbed, import your own Ivermectin, etc?
All was logical and easy to follow. However capitalism has no need for the 3bn without money. Only driving climate crisis and chaos to evidence to those rich countries, individuals able to buy more, to adopt in a world essential to survive. Vertical farming, home upgrades and energy prices to allow billionaires and governments all the power and control to demand more from the masses to entertain the few. Get off the grid, off media and consumption. Vegan, repair and reuse. Live long and healthy, happy without being obedient. Without much need for stuff, able to focus on supporting others and nature. Its simple, a simple life, simply give more than take x
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