On Friday 11 December, investor and philanthropist George Soros came to Oxford to lead a special panel discussion at the Sheldonian Theatre on the topic of “Lessons from Financial Crises: Paradigm Failure and the Future of Financial Regulation”. A podcast of the event , and a video are now available from the resources section of our website .

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In a century of globalization, when the life of every individual is directly affected by a vast network of forces beyond their control, the concept of “Global Zero” has the power to inspire action on some of the most intractable problems of our time. Hosted in association with the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict , the seminar series on the theme of ‘ getting to zero ‘ aimed to generate fresh insights on translating bold concepts into concrete action

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Unfortunately, the final seminar in our ‘ Getting to Zero ‘ series, which was supposed to be delivered by Professor Schellnhuber on ‘restitution of the atmosphere’, was cancelled. Fortunately, Professor David Keith (University of Calgary) was speaking on 3 December at the Smith School for Enterprise and cheap drugs online the Environment about using geoengineering techniques in the efforts to reduce or eliminate carbon emissions. Professor Keith’s talk certainly provided a wealth of insights into the problems involved in bringing about the necessary reductions in carbon emissions.

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An illustration of how an activity can bomb in one class and rock in another: My first year teaching I adapted a unit that my wonderful student teaching mentors developed: Using the poem ” Where I’m From ” by George Ella Lyon as a mentor text, students write their own poem by brainstorming, drafting, and then writing numerous consecutive drafts until it is a well-polished piece of work. I decided to add a second mentor text option: The song “Where medications online I’m From” by the hip-hop group Digable Planets. By the time the song ended on my little CD player, the students were looking at me and each other like, “Who is this crazy lady and what is this strange music?” It was one of those terrifying first-year moments when the class reacts exactly the opposite of how you expected and you are at a loss of how to proceed

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