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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Julia Belluz on social media's impact on health decisions
Journalist Julia Belluz looks at the impact of social media ...
Journalist Julia Belluz looks at the impact of social media on decisions about health in the Annual Hart House Hancock Lecture. Her lecture, entitled Who Lives and Who Dies: Will Social Media Decide?, was delivered at the Hart House Great Hall on October 31, 2012.
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Kwame McKenzie on Immigration Sickness
Kwame McKenzie, Medical Director of the Centre for Addiction and ...
Kwame McKenzie, Medical Director of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, on Immigration Sickness. What psychological and social attributes help us predict who will be a good at being an immigrant?
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Ken Cramer on Alfred Adler
Ken Cramer - Psychology, University of Windsor -on Alfred Adler: ...
Ken Cramer - Psychology, University of Windsor -on Alfred Adler: The Most Famous Personality Theorist You Likely Never Heard Of
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Nick Mount on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, explores T.S. Eliot's ...
University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, explores T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land.
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Susannah Varmuza on the evolving field of Epigenetics
University of Toronto Zoology researcher, Susannah Varmuza, discusses the evolving ...
University of Toronto Zoology researcher, Susannah Varmuza, discusses the evolving field of Epigenetics and what research into such things as mouse coat colour is telling scientists about the age-old "nature versus nurture" debate.
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Clare Hasenkampf on Chromosomes Dividing
Clare Hasenkampf of the Biology Department at University of Toronto ...
Clare Hasenkampf of the Biology Department at University of Toronto Scarborough presents her lecture Chromosomes Dividing: How It Is Done and Why It Matters.
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Lt. General (ret.) Andrew Leslie on Lessons From Afghanistan
Lieutenant General (retired) Andrew Leslie, the Former Chief of Transformation ...
Lieutenant General (retired) Andrew Leslie, the Former Chief of Transformation for the Canadian Armed Forces, discusses the lessons that can be learned from the Canadian military mission in Afghanistan. He explores how these lessons need to be applied to the Canadian Force's priorities in the face of future budget cuts.
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Oliver Sacks on Musicophilia
Neurologist and best-selling author, Oliver Sacks, discusses his book Musicophilia. ...
Neurologist and best-selling author, Oliver Sacks, discusses his book Musicophilia. and the ways our brains interact with and understand music.
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Richard Kearney on Narrative Imagination and Catharsis
In his lecture entitled "Narrative Imagination and Catharsis", philosopher Richard ...
In his lecture entitled "Narrative Imagination and Catharsis", philosopher Richard Kearney takes the examples of Joyce's Ulysses, Homer's Odyssey and Shakespeare's Hamlet to illustrate his thesis on the healing power of art. His lecture was part of an event called Imagination's Truths and was recorded at the Isabel Bader Theatre on October 13, 2012.
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Noam Chomsky on The Imperial Presidency
American author and political activist, Noam Chomsky, speking at a ...
American author and political activist, Noam Chomsky, speking at a benefit for Canadian Dimension Magazine, delivers a talk entitled The Imperial Presidency. Recorded at University of Toronto on Nov 21/04.
