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Forum - A World of Ideas

Forum - A World of Ideas

Bridget Kendall hosts three prominent international thinkers debating big ideas. Duration 48 minutes. Programme broadcast on Sunday on BBC World Service, updated weekly. For more information go to bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/forum.shtml

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  • Education, entaglement, epiphany. Furedi, Maniscalco, Anam 21 Nov 09

    Sun, 22 Nov 09

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    50 mins

    Sociologist Frank Furedi argues that Western society has now become so uncomfortable with the idea of parents and teachers having authority over young people that we are failing to educate our children properly. Physicist Sabrina Maniscalco explains her work aimed at overcoming one of the main obstacles to practical quantum computing: the very quick collapse of the delicate entaglement atom state which is required to perform quantum computations. Author Tahmima Anam examines the divide between secular and religious worlds, not in society at large but within one fictional family.

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