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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Jesse Hirsh, Lee Rainie - Is Social Media Good for Democracy
The 2012 Keith Davey Forum on Public Affairs, moderated by ...
The 2012 Keith Davey Forum on Public Affairs, moderated by Steve Paikin and featuring Lee Rainie and Jesse Hirsh. They address the question, Is Social Media Good for Democracy?
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Philip Ball on How Science Became Interested in Everything
Science writer Philip Ball on his book Curiosity: How Science ...
Science writer Philip Ball on his book Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything. Ball explores how the history of science was influenced by the cultural accetance or rejection of human curiosity.
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Stephen Lewis - interviewed by Gillian Findlay
Stephen Lewis of the Global Commission on HIV and the ...
Stephen Lewis of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, is interviewed by Gillian Findlay following his talk at the Grandest Challenge symposium.
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Samantha Nutt - interviewed by Carol Off
Samantha Nutt, Founder and Executive Director of War Child, is ...
Samantha Nutt, Founder and Executive Director of War Child, is interviewed by Carol Off following her talk at the Grandest Challenge symposium.
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Jordan Peterson on Music and the Patterns of the Mind and W.
Jordan Peterson on Music and the Patterns of the Mind ...
Jordan Peterson on Music and the Patterns of the Mind and World. Peterson, a University of Toronto professor of psychology, discusses the way in which music is perceived by humans. He compares the way we respond to visual arts, particularly the paintings of Picasso, to our perceptions of music in an effort to show how our brains respond differently to varied art forms.
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David Weinberger:Knowledge at the End of the Information Age
The author of "Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the ...
The author of "Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder", David Weinberger, delivers a lecture entitled "Knowledge at the End of the Information Age".
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Jill Tarter on the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Dr. Jill Tarter, Director at the Centre for SETI Research, ...
Dr. Jill Tarter, Director at the Centre for SETI Research, discusses the ongoing Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence and how new tools including the Allen Telescope Array and the Keplar Spacecraft are helping to make the search much more likely to succeed.
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Stephen Lewis on Climate Change
Stephen Lewis, social sciences scholar in residence at McMaster University, ...
Stephen Lewis, social sciences scholar in residence at McMaster University, delivers a talk entitled, Climate Change; the New Big Thing.
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Jordan Peterson on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity
University of Toronto Psychology Professor, Jordan Peterson, on Redemption and ...
University of Toronto Psychology Professor, Jordan Peterson, on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity. Dr. Peterson's lecture was the keynote address at the 2012 Meaning Conference held in Toronto.
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Stephen Lewis of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law
Stephen Lewis of the Global Commission on HIV and the ...
Stephen Lewis of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, and author of Race Against Time speaks at The Grandest Challenge Symposium.
