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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Stewart Brand on his book Whole Earth Discipline
Stewart Brand delivers a lecture focusing on his book Whole ...
Stewart Brand delivers a lecture focusing on his book Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.
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Bhikhu Parekh on secularism and the role of religion
Lord Bhikhu Parekh is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at ...
Lord Bhikhu Parekh is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the Universities of Westminster and Hull and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of several books in political philosophy including Rethinking Multiculturalism and A New Politics of Identity. This lecture on Secularism and the Role of Religion in Public Life was hosted by the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto on April 6, 2010.
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John Mighton on The Ubiquitous Bell Curve
John Mighton of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical ...
John Mighton of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences delivers a lecture on The Ubiquitous Bell Curve: What It Does and Doesn't Tell Us. The talk focuses on JUMP Math and Mighton's work helping teachers learn how to excite students about mathematics.
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Robert Adams on The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Robert Adams discusses Mohsin Hamid's 2007 novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, ...
Robert Adams discusses Mohsin Hamid's 2007 novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which was short listed for the Booker Prize.
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Terry Eagleton on Marxism as a Theodicy
British literary and cultural theorist, Terry Eagleton, delivers a lecture ...
British literary and cultural theorist, Terry Eagleton, delivers a lecture at York University entitled Is Marxism a Theodicy?
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Terry Eagleton on the metaphysics of terror
Big Ideas presents British cultural theorist, Terry Eagleton, on The ...
Big Ideas presents British cultural theorist, Terry Eagleton, on The Metaphysics of Terror. This archival lecture was originally part of a 4-part series and recorded at the University of Toronto in January 2004.
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Chris Lintott on The Galaxy Zoo
Chris Lintott of the University of Oxford discusses The Galaxy ...
Chris Lintott of the University of Oxford discusses The Galaxy Zoo, an internet-based program for enlisting the help of amateur astronomers in cataloguing other galaxies.
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Tariq Ramadan
The Swiss-born Muslim philosopher gives a lecture based on his ...
The Swiss-born Muslim philosopher gives a lecture based on his recent book In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad.
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Jeremy Rifkin on The Empathic Civilization
Jeremy Rifkin, President of the Foundation on Economic Trends, and ...
Jeremy Rifkin, President of the Foundation on Economic Trends, and author of The Empathic Civilization, spoke on global environmental issues at the Tulip Festival in Ottawa on May 16, 2010.
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Jeff Rubin and Andrew Nikiforuk on the future of oil
Authors Jeff Rubin and Andrew Nikiforuk discuss The Future of ...
Authors Jeff Rubin and Andrew Nikiforuk discuss The Future of the Oil Economy, with moderator Paul Waldie. This panel was part of the 2010 Globe and Mail Open House Festival.
