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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Christopher W. diCarlo on The New Ethics
Big Ideas presents Christopher W. diCarlo, winner of the 2008 ...
Big Ideas presents Christopher W. diCarlo, winner of the 2008 Best Lecturer Competition, on The New Ethics: A Synthetic Approach to Understanding Good and Evil.
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Rod Carley on Theatre in the 21st Century
Big Ideas preents Rod Carley, winner of the 2009 Best ...
Big Ideas preents Rod Carley, winner of the 2009 Best Lecturer Competition, on Theatre in the 21st Century: Touchstone to Humanity
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Robert Adams on Elie Wiesel's The Forgotten
Popular Welsh-born storyteller Robert Adams reviews Elie Wiesel's novel, The ...
Popular Welsh-born storyteller Robert Adams reviews Elie Wiesel's novel, The Forgotten, the profoundly moving story of an ailing Holocaust survivor who lives with disturbing memories and entrusts his son with a mysterious mission. Adams' talk was delivered at the Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue on November 2nd, 2010, as part of Holocaust Education Week.
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Rupinder Brar on The Impact of Astronomy
Big Ideas presents 2010 Best Lecturer Competition winner Rupinder Brar ...
Big Ideas presents 2010 Best Lecturer Competition winner Rupinder Brar on The Impact of Astronomy on Humankind's Perception of the Universe
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Sara Seager on Exoplanets the Search for Habitable Worlds
Big Ideas presents Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of ...
Big Ideas presents Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discussing Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds
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Michael Adams on The Boomer Impact
Environics co-founder, leading pollster, and author, Michael Adams, delivers a ...
Environics co-founder, leading pollster, and author, Michael Adams, delivers a lecture on the Boomer Impact, drawing on the insights and research in his latest book Stayin' Alive: How Canadian Boomers Will Work, Play and Find Meaning in the Second Half of Their Adult Lives. This lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.
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Hod Lipson on The Robot Scientist: Mining Experimental Data
Big Ideas presents Hod Lipson of Cornell University exploring his ...
Big Ideas presents Hod Lipson of Cornell University exploring his work in such areas as evolutionary robotics and programmable self-assembly, Lipson delivers a lecture entitled The Robot Scientist: Mining Experimental Data for Scientific Laws, from Cognitive Robots to Computational Biology.
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Ian Hacking on The Mathematical Animal
Winner of the prestigious Holberg International Memorial Prize, University of ...
Winner of the prestigious Holberg International Memorial Prize, University of Toronto philosophy professor, Ian Hacking, presents a lecture entitled The Mathematical Animal.
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Nick Mount on It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken
Big Ideas presents University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, ...
Big Ideas presents University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, on the graphic novel It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth.
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David Sloan Wilson on Religion and Other Meaning Systems
Professor David Sloan Wilson, author of Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, ...
Professor David Sloan Wilson, author of Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society, delivers the annual Wiegand Memorial Foundation lecture entitled Religion and Other Meaning Systems. He examines how the experience of the religious believer differs from the secular thinker and argues that both can be understood in terms their particular meaning systems.
