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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George Steiner on the history of Literacy - 2002
Author George Steiner, speaking at the Living Literacies Conference (November ...
Author George Steiner, speaking at the Living Literacies Conference (November 2002) at York University in Toronto, delivers a lecture on the history of literacy.
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Gerald Cohen on Rescuing Conservatism
Political philosopher Gerald Cohen presents the 2008 Centre for Ethics ...
Political philosopher Gerald Cohen presents the 2008 Centre for Ethics Public Lecture (University of Toronto). His topic is "Rescuing Conservatism: A Defence of Existing Value".
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Malcolm Gladwell on Blink - 2005
Malcolm Gladwell discusses his bestselling book Blink: The Power of ...
Malcolm Gladwell discusses his bestselling book Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
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Mel Hurtig on The Truth about Canada
Mel Hurtig delivers a lecture based on the findings in ...
Mel Hurtig delivers a lecture based on the findings in his book, The Truth about Canada, which illuminates some of the truths and myths about Canada.
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Susan Sontag on modern literacy - 2002
Author Susan Sontag, speaking at the Living Literacies Conference (November ...
Author Susan Sontag, speaking at the Living Literacies Conference (November 2002) at York University in Toronto, delivers a lecture on modern literacy.
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Brian Schmidt on The Universe from Beginning to End
Brian Schmidt of the Australian National University delivers his lecture ...
Brian Schmidt of the Australian National University delivers his lecture entitled The Universe from Beginning to End. The lecture explores the geometry and age of the universe to give us a picture of the effects of Dark Energy.
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Brian Schmidt Q&A - The Universe from Beginning to End
Brian Schmidt of the Australian National University answers questions following ...
Brian Schmidt of the Australian National University answers questions following his lecture entitled The Universe from Beginning to End
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Edward Shorter on the history of sex - 2005
Edward Shorter delivers a lecture discussing the history of sex ...
Edward Shorter delivers a lecture discussing the history of sex and his book Written in the Flesh at Hart House at the University of Toronto - September, 2005.
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Charles Sabine & Sydney Brenner on The Personalized Genome
Charles Sabine & Sydney Brenner speak at the Gairdner Symposium ...
Charles Sabine & Sydney Brenner speak at the Gairdner Symposium on The Personalized Genome in Toronto (October 30, 2009)
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Robert Adams on Booker Prize winning novel The White Tiger
Teacher, writer and critic, Robert Adams, reviews Aravind Adiga's Booker ...
Teacher, writer and critic, Robert Adams, reviews Aravind Adiga's Booker prize-winning novel, The White Tiger. Corruption, murder, and a series of letters composed by a former chauffeur allow the novel to explore India's caste system and how it's been affected by the country's economic miracle.
