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Aware many of you have no idea who i am so thank you for showing up out of the spirit of pure curiosity. I think it speaks very well of you and i know theres really big names at the festival and i feel honored to be among them so thanks for coming. Who am i to mark a few things around i write a column called the undercover economist for the Financial Times. At the pink newspaper thats really good. I recommend it. Thanks baxter. And the second thing is i present bbc radio so im present a show for the Bbc World Service called 50things that made the modern economy. Ive presented a show for bbc ra...

The first thing is i am well aware that many of you have no idea who i am. And so thank you for showing up out of the spirit of pure curiosity. I think it speaks very well of you. I know there are some really, really big nays in the festival and i feel very honored to be amongst them. Thanks for coming. So who am i . A few things, i write column called the undercover economist for the Financial Times at the pink newspaper thats really good, i recommend it. [applause] thank you sir. The second thing is i present radio. I did a show for the Bbc World Service called 50 things amid the modern econ...

Stories. We begin with the elections in taiwan. The president won a landslide majority, seen as a rejection of beijings push for one country, two systems. Joining me from taipei is stephen engle. Walk us through the significance of the vote over the weekend. Stephen it was quite significant. Now that she has that landslide victory and the mandate for another four years, theres three big questions. How will china handle another four years of a thorn in their side, the policies of taiwan and her proindependence minded policies that really resonated with the electorate . More than 8 million votes...

I am the cofounder we have a podcast and the other connection that brings you here today so what im very glad to do and to talk about who is here. So an awardwinning journalist previously the head of one of the world leading design complications but is very much a practitioner and working hard at it for a very long time. That what youd dont know was of the leading industrial and the awardwinning cofounder the book is called userfriendly and the way we try to make everything easy with software and may be as a side effect it is friction free to make people less powerful. So i will remark there a...

Overcomes space and time. And like based internet. And the effects of city lights on nature. Lets start at the beginning with how we see light. When light enters our eye it hits the retina. And is received by photo receptor cells the socalled rod cells respond to light and dark the cones are responsible for color vision but we only see the light that actually enters our eyes if you are in zambia wanted to know more. Light travel. During a thunderstorm or you see the. I thing straight away but we hear the thunder with a delay. Thats because the sound waves move slowly whereas light travels supe...