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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Robert Adams on the novel Herzog by Saul Bellow.
Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the ...
Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the 1964 novel Herzog by Saul Bellow.
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Simon Winchester on A Crack in the Edge of the World
Simon Winchester on his book A Crack in the Edge ...
Simon Winchester on his book A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906.
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Robert Adams on the novel No Great Mischief
Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the ...
Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the novel No Great Mischief by Alastair MacLeod.
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Philosopher Slavoj Zizek on ,Until the End of the World"
Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek delivers his contribution to the Nuit ...
Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek delivers his contribution to the Nuit Blanche symposium inspired by Wim Wenders film, Until the End of the World.
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Robert Adams on the novel The Corrections
Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the ...
Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the novel The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
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Salmon Akhtar on The Trauma of Geographical Dislocation
Salmon Akhtar on The Trauma of Geographical Dislocation, how immigration ...
Salmon Akhtar on The Trauma of Geographical Dislocation, how immigration can affect a person's mental health.
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Jordan Peterson on Slaying the Dragon Within Us
Jordan Peterson on Slaying the Dragon Within Us. Peterson, a ...
Jordan Peterson on Slaying the Dragon Within Us. Peterson, a University of Toronto professor of psychology, talks about fear of the unknown and fear of dealing with problems.
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Steven Pinker on The Blank Slate
Harvard University psychology professor, Steven Pinker, dicusses his book The ...
Harvard University psychology professor, Steven Pinker, dicusses his book The Blank Slate.
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Marc Abrahams, editor of The Annals of Improbably Research
Marc Abrahams, editor of The Annals of Improbably Research and ...
Marc Abrahams, editor of The Annals of Improbably Research and one of the organizers of the annual Ig-Nobel Prize ceremonies at Harvard University, discusses the work of scientists and academics that, "first makes you laugh, and then makes you think".
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Maude Barlow on Water: The Most Pressing Women's Issue
Maude Barlow, National Chair of the citizens' advocacy organization The ...
Maude Barlow, National Chair of the citizens' advocacy organization The Council of Canadians, on Water: The Most Pressing Women's Issue of All.
