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In the latest contribution to our Michaelmas term seminar series on 'Getting to Zero' Dr Patricia Lewis, Deputy Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, asked what lessons the nuclear disarmament movement might be able to draw from other weapons control campaigns. A summary of Dr Lewis' presentation and invitation to continue the discussions is on our blog. A podcast of …
On Wednesday 18 November Professor John Shepherd, Chair of the Royal Society's recent report on "Geoengineering the Climate" gave a lecture at the 21st Century Ocean Institute. The Royal Society Report was co-authored by a multidisciplinary group of experts, including Professor Steve Rayner, Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (part of the 21st Century School) who set …
In recent decades, almost every variant of bacteria has become stronger and less vulnerable to antibiotic treatment, threatening new strains of infectious disease or super-strains that are both more expensive to treat and more difficult to cure. The latest in our new series of 21School Briefings highlights a novel approach to this pressing problem. Recent evidence suggests that an antibiotic …
Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Director of the Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests, has been a key advisor to an extraordinary exhibition which is appearing this week in London’s Trafalgar Square. The 'Ghost Forest' exhibition features 10 immense rainforest tree stumps from Ghana, most with their buttress roots still attached. The exhibition seeks to raise public awareness of the connections …
On 3 November 2009, the Friends of the Earth released a report suggesting that carbon trading could be the 'next sub-prime crisis'. Professor Steve Rayner, Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, was invited to write the foreword to the report, which indicates that plans to expand carbon markets at climate talks this December could trigger a 'sub-prime' style …
On Thursday 12 November, Dr Mohammed El-Erian, Co-CIO of PIMCO, the world's largest bond fund, and one of the world's most respected economic analysts, came to the 21st Century School to deliver a Distinguished Public Lecture at Oxford's Sheldonian theatre. In a lecture entitled 'The End of Business as Usual: Navigating the New Normal', Dr El-Erian spoke about the state of the global economy …