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14/11/2010

Where does honour end and morality begin? Plus new discoveries of super-sized Earths and why they might be good places for life to exist.

When you’re ‘honour bound’ to do something – what actually is it that drives you? The desire to do the right thing, or the sneaking need for approval and respect from others? Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah asks where morality ends and honour codes begin.

How do you get past the temptation to typecast different nationalities? Writer and comedienne Anna Chen contemplates stereotypes of Asian women.

And leaving human prejudices aside - what happens if we suddenly find out we aren’t alone in the universe? Harvard astronomer Dimitar Sasselov updates us on the discoveries of the Kepler mission, the observatory sent up into space to look for habitable exoplanets circling around other stars.

(Above) A unique woman with breast enhancements and bound feet having a duel for her honour with a gravity challenged being on a super earth many light years away. Illustration by Emily Kasriel.

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55 minutes

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Sun 14 Nov 2010 09:05GMT

Chapters

  • Kwame Appiah

    Codes of honour past and present.

    Duration: 16:43

  • SIXTY SECOND IDEA TO CHANGE THE WORLD

    Let’s not stop talking to each other.

    Duration: 06:17

  • Dimitar Sasselov

    Adjusting our assumptions of what sort of planets might harbour life.

    Duration: 12:18

  • Anna Chen

    Overcoming Western typecasting of Asian women.

    Duration: 10:42

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  • Sun 14 Nov 2010 09:05GMT

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