Battle of Ideas 2015
Festival weekend: Science & Environment

Fuller details of sessions are available where the title is in bold.

Saturday 17 October: 10.00-11.30
Battle over Life and Death Frobisher Auditorium 1
What is a good life: can science and medicine tell us?
Saturday 17 October: 12.00-13.00
Battle over Life and Death Frobisher Auditorium 1
Can Big Data save the world?
Contemporary Controversies Conservatory
Anthropocene: are humans wrecking the planet?
Saturday 17 October: 14.00-15.30
Battle over Life and Death Frobisher Auditorium 1
Eugenics: myth and reality
Eye on the World Pit Theatre
Plantation politics: is industrial farming bad for the developing world?
Saturday 17 October: 16.00-17.15
Contemporary Controversies Conservatory
Plumbing the depths: the battle for the oceans
Saturday 17 October: 17.30-18.45
Battle over Life and Death Frobisher Auditorium 1
What is a good death: can science and medicine tell us?
Sunday 18 October: 12.00-13.00
Economic solutions? Frobisher 5-6
What's wrong with cheap food?
Sunday 18 October: 14.00-15.30
Battle over Technology Cinema 2
Moneyball or Mourinho: Is sport seeing a big data revolution?
International Battles Garden Room
China and India: putting the space race before the human race?
Sunday 18 October: 17.30-18.45
Economic solutions? Frobisher 5-6
The divestment controversy: should fossil fuels go the way of the dinosaurs?

Energy futures: how can we keep the lights on?

"Some of the freest speech I have enjoyed in years."
Baroness Ruth Deech QC, crossbench peer; chairman, Bar Standards Board

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