The Global Lab Episode 11 - Stephen Lorimer, Manuel Castells - a podcast by The Global Lab

This episode we speak to Stephen Lorimer from the UCL Energy Institute about why your hangover is ruining the world, Hannah talks about WWII tweeters and JISC geodevelopers of the year, and Martin talks about Manuel Castells and hand-drawn maps.

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Here are links to some of the topics we discussed on the show...

Manuel Castells' visit to the occupy London camp:

http://youtu.be/BS82Do3bU-w

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Million Dollar Blocks:

http://www.spatialinformationdesignlab.org/projects.php?id=16

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The JISC geodeveloper award going to the GEMMA team:

http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/casa/news/2011-11-28-gemma-prize

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WW2 Tweets from 1939: https://twitter.com/#!/RealTimeWWII

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You can find the hand drawn map, organised by CASA students Alastair Leak and Ian Morton, here:

http://londonist.com/2011/12/ucl-students-create-hand-drawn-map-of-london.php and here: http://mappinglondon.co.uk/2011/12/05/ucl-hand-drawn-map-of-london/

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Stephen Lorimer can be found at https://myportfolio.ucl.ac.uk/user/view.php?id=257

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Hannah Fry is a research associate in CASA; her website is http://HannahFry.co.uk and she is called @FryRSquared on twitter.
Martin Zaltz Austwick is a lecturer at CASA; his website is http://SociablePhysics.com and his twittername, conveniently, is @SociablePhysics.

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