Big Ideas Audio
Big Ideas offers lectures on a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science.... By nature of its lecture format, pacing and inquisitive approach, it is the antithesis of the prevailing sound-bit
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Keith Devlin on Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple
Keith Devlin, Executive Director of the H-STAR Institute at Stanford ...
Keith Devlin, Executive Director of the H-STAR Institute at Stanford University, discusses Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years
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Steve Paikin on The Personal Price of a Political Life.
Steve Paikin, anchor and senior editor of TVO's series The ...
Steve Paikin, anchor and senior editor of TVO's series The Agenda with Steve Paikin, delivers the 20th annual Bell lecture entitled, The Personal Price of a Political Life. The lecture was recorded at Carleton University in Ottawa on November 16th, 2011.
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John Ibbitson on the Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus
John Ibbitson, Ottawa bureau chief for The Globe and Mail, ...
John Ibbitson, Ottawa bureau chief for The Globe and Mail, delivers a lecture on The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus and the Rise of Ontario as a Pacific Province. This lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.
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Armine Yalnizyan and William Watson on economic disparity
Armine Yalnizyan, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy ...
Armine Yalnizyan, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and William Watson, McGill economics professor, debate Inequality: A Threat to Democracy? This is the 2011 Keith Davey Forum on Public Affairs, moderated by political scientist Jeffrey Kopstein.
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Liberty and the Arab Spring: Exploring Isaiah Berlin's Ideas
Moderator Mark Kingwell and panelists Michael Ignatieff and Ramin Jahanbegloo ...
Moderator Mark Kingwell and panelists Michael Ignatieff and Ramin Jahanbegloo discuss the writings of political philosopher Isaiah Berlin as they pertain to Liberty and The Arab Spring
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Gaspar Tamas on The Failure of Liberal Democracy
Hungarian philosopher, Gaspar Tamas,on The Failure of Liberal Democracy in ...
Hungarian philosopher, Gaspar Tamas,on The Failure of Liberal Democracy in Eastern Europe and Everywhere Else. His lecture was delivered at the Munk School of Global Affairs on September 20, 2011. Tamas is a prolific writer of essays with a wide-ranging and distinguished career in academics and government. He was also a leading figure in the East European dissident movements.
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Gabor Maté on The Human Face of Addictive Behavior
Drawing on his experiences with addicted patients from Vancouver's Downtown ...
Drawing on his experiences with addicted patients from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Dr. Gabor Maté discusses how the medical and legal systems are failing in the so-called war on drugs. He reads from his book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, and suggests ways in which our approach to dealing with drugs and drug addicts could be improved.
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Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Things to Come
Hod Lipson of Cornell University discusses the future of 3-D ...
Hod Lipson of Cornell University discusses the future of 3-D printing in his lecture entitled, Programmable Matter: The Shape of Things to Come
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Janice Stein on 9/11: Reflections after Ten Years
Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs, Janice Stein, ...
Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs, Janice Stein, provides a summary and closing remarks at the event entitled 9/11: Ten Reflections after the Passage of Ten Years: An Opportunity to Contemplate and Remember. It was recorded on September 13, 2011. The event was produced by the Munk School of Global Affairs in conjunction with the Centre for the Study of the United States.
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Ronald Pruessen on 9/11: Reflections after Ten Years
University of Toronto history professor, Ronald Pruessen, with his contribution ...
University of Toronto history professor, Ronald Pruessen, with his contribution to 9/11: Ten Reflections after the Passage of Ten Years: An Opportunity to Contemplate and Remember. It was recorded on September 13, 2011. The event was produced by the Munk School of Global Affairs in conjunction with the Centre for the Study of the United States.
