Big Ideas Audio

Best Lecturer 2010 nominee Rupinder Brar

Rupinder Brar from the Faculty of Science at the University ...

Rupinder Brar from the Faculty of Science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology presents his competition lecture entitled Exoplanets: The Search For Other Earths.

Virginia Walker lecture audio podcast

Virginia Walker lecture audio podcast

Best Lecturer 2010 nominee Sohail Rashid

Sohail Rashid from the Psychology Department at Ryerson University presents ...

Sohail Rashid from the Psychology Department at Ryerson University presents his competition lecture entitled Birth Order and Personality.

Best Lecturer 2010 nominee Karolyn Smardz Frost

Karolyn Smardz Frost from the History Department at York University ...

Karolyn Smardz Frost from the History Department at York University presents her competition lecture entitled Fugitive Sources: Uncovering Toronto's Underground Railroad Connections.

Eleanor MacDonald on Are We Postmodern?

Eleanor MacDonald from the Political Studies Department at Queen's University ...

Eleanor MacDonald from the Political Studies Department at Queen's University presents her competition lecture entitled Are We Postmodern?

Steve Joordens on Teaching Critical Thinking

Steve Joordens from the Psychology Department at the University of ...

Steve Joordens from the Psychology Department at the University of Toronto Scarborough presents his competition lecture entitled You Can Lead Students to Knowledge, But How Do You Make Them Think?

BIG IDEAS: Nick Mount audio podcast

As part of his Literature for Our Time series, English ...

As part of his Literature for Our Time series, English professor Nick Mount discusses Virginia Woolf?s novel To the Lighthouse.

Michael Ruse asks Is Darwinism Past its Sell-By Date?

At the 2009 Darwin conference entitled Origin of Species at ...

At the 2009 Darwin conference entitled Origin of Species at 150, philosophy professor Michael Ruse asks Is Darwinism Past its Sell-By Date?

Francis Broun

Art historian, Francis Broun, delivers an informative and entertaining lecture ...

Art historian, Francis Broun, delivers an informative and entertaining lecture on the sculptures of Michelangelo. Broun is a professor in the Faculty of Liberal Studies at the Ontario College of Art

Dambisa Moyo on Innovating Away from Aid

In her best-selling book, Dead Aid, economist Dambisa Moyo, argues ...

In her best-selling book, Dead Aid, economist Dambisa Moyo, argues that aid to Africa breeds corruption and dependence and should be replaced with more innovative ways of financing, including capital markets and microfinance. Her lecture, Innovating Away from Aid, was delivered at the University of Waterloo.