How To Academy
Summary: How To Academy is an organisation for people who think big. From Nobel laureates to Pulitzer Prize winners, we invite the world’s most influential voices to London to share new ideas for changing ourselves, our communities, and the world.
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Podcasts:
The Nobel laureate and creator of Micro-Credit Muhammad Yunus outlines a radical new plan to fix global capitalism and create a new economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment and Zero Carbon Emissions. In Conversation with Rory Brooks
A debate on whether we should be deleting Uber or using Uber. The controversial commentator on the digital revolution Andrew Keen, argues we should delete Uber and be wary of the so-called 'Sharing Economy'. Oliver Kamm, the leader writer and columnist for The Times argues we should keep Uber. Moderated by Hannah MacInnes
The Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author Joseph Stiglitz joins Emily Maitlis and the how to: Academy to examine the current crisis in the European Union – and explain why its survival may mean scrapping the euro.
The celebrated Stratfordian Jonathan Bate sits down with the anti-Stratfordian Alexander Waugh for a heated and impassioned debate on the most beguiling and unputdownable literary mystery of them all. Moderated by Hermione Eyre
The late A.A.Gill in conversation with John Mitchinson on the occasion of his book POUR ME, A Life, his dark yet laugh-out-loud memoir, which charts the soggy tangle of a shredded life; the year between the end of his marriage and the end of his drinking.
Hannah MacInnes sits down with the legendary mountaineer Chris Bonington as he talks through his 50-year journey of climbing up to the stars.
Charles Moore and Sir David Cannadine debate and discuss the life, the legacy and the truth of the woman who helped bring the end to the Cold War and transformed British political life. Chaired by Eliza Filby
Slavoj Zizek Vs Will Self by How to: Podcast
Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov talks about where Machine Intelligence ends and Human Creativity begins – followed by a conversation with legendary former MIT Media Lab Professor Mike Hawley.
Has President Trump's first 100 Days Been Positive or Negative? Arguing for POSITIVE is Melanie Phillips & James Delingpole. Arguing for NEGATIVE is James Rubin & Jonathan Freedland. Moderated by Emily Maitlis
On 11th February, scientists working on the LIGO experiment announced that they had discovered gravitational waves – igniting the scientific world with excitement. The renowned cosmologist Lawrence Krauss, who has been following their work closely, responded with an insightful and beautiful explanation of the discovery in the New York Times. Krauss’s remarkable piece in the New York Times, Finding Beauty in the Darkness, describes the LIGO experiment that enabled the detection of gravitational waves as ‘ testament to the persistent curiosity and ingenuity of humankind — the qualities that we should most celebrate about being human.’ The discovery itself proves that there are ripples in space-time (as predicted by Einstein), ‘which literally cause distances between objects alternately to decrease and increase in an oscillatory manner’. Krauss joined the how to: Academy to explain this extraordinary discovery.
The bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert offers powerful insights into the mysterious nature of creativity. In conversation with Viv Groskop.
