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Last broadcast on Sun, 15 Nov 2009, 09:05 on BBC World Service.
Synopsis
This week: the human brain and body. Antony Gormley asks BBC listeners to take part in a meditative experiment...and go barefoot. Plus the illusion of perception and the value of forgetting.
The Forum 60 Second Idea video – Antony Gormley argues we should go barefoot
THE FORUM - A World Of Ideas - presented by BRIDGET KENDALL
We like nothing better than talking about ourselves...so this week’s Forum with Bridget Kendall focuses on the human brain and form.
GORMLEY - ANOTHER SINGULARITY 2009
8mm polypropylene cord, 6mm and 8mm polypropylene/rubber bungee cord, steel fixings
Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith, Beijing
ANTONY GORMLEY
One of Britain’s best known sculptors ANTONY GORMLEY looks at why we need to peel back our skin in order to understand our own humanity. He conducts an experiment with BBC listeners, inviting us to close our eyes and connect with deep space beyond.
VIKTOR MAYER-SCHÖNBERGER
Information technology professor VIKTOR MAYER-SCHÖNBERGER
invites us to gaze into a nightmare world of the future where humans may be in danger of losing the capacity to forget as digital memories become so efficient at keeping our data for ever…
BEAU LOTTO - VISUAL ILLUSIONS
CUBE 11, an illusion demo by Beau Lotto (There is no audio on this video)
And we peer inside our brains with neuroscientist BEAU LOTTO who reveals the illusion of perception and shows, with a little help from bees, why we see the way we do.
60 SECOND IDEA TO CHANGE THE WORLD
In our 60 Second Idea To Change The World ANTONY GORMLEY instructs us all to give up shoes and go barefoot. At a time of global warming, with naked feet you can actually feel it. He has gone barefoot for a year and says that if you dispense with shoes you can appreciate distinctions and negotiate your environment in a totally different way.
This week's illustration of the three Forum ideas
Remembering illusions through a porous skin with bare feet. By editor Emily Kasriel
IN NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAMME
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy will be in the presenter’s chair and his guests include Bangladeshi novelist Tahmima Anam, Italian quantum physicist Sabrina Maniscalco and Hungarian born Frank Furedi who discusses adult authority.
Naked Feet - A way to improve the world?
Illustration by editor Emily Kasriel
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Sun 15 Nov 200909:05
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