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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Samantha Nutt, Founder and Executive Director of War Child
Samantha Nutt, Founder and Executive Director of War Child Canada, ...
Samantha Nutt, Founder and Executive Director of War Child Canada, and author of the book Damned Nations speaks at The Grandest Challenge Symposium.
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Rupinder Brar on Relativity, Einstein, and How to Stay Young
Rupinder Brar lectures on the topic of Einstein's special relativity ...
Rupinder Brar lectures on the topic of Einstein's special relativity theory and it's explanation of time dilation and simultaneity. The lecture is entitled Relativity, Einstein, the Speed of Light and How to Stay Young.
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Julian Barbour on Does Time Exist?
Julian Barbour, visiting professor at the University of Oxford and ...
Julian Barbour, visiting professor at the University of Oxford and the author of The End of Time, addresses the question, Does Time Exist? Barbour explores the history of scientific thought on the concept of time and presents his own interpretations of what time is.
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Margaret Atwood: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
Preeminent author, Margaret Atwood, delivers the 2008 Massey Lecture, "Payback: ...
Preeminent author, Margaret Atwood, delivers the 2008 Massey Lecture, "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth".
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Tyler Cowen and Andrew Coyne on The Great Stagnation
Tyler Cowen discusses his book The Great Stagnation: How America ...
Tyler Cowen discusses his book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick and Will (Eventually) Feel Better. Andrew Coyne (National Post) presents a rebuttal and the pair discuss Cowen's thesis focusing on issues of productivity, innovation and government policy (moderated by Wendy Dobson).
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Senator Hugh Segal on Fighting Poverty in Canada
In a lecture entitled "Fighting Poverty", Senator Hugh Segal explains ...
In a lecture entitled "Fighting Poverty", Senator Hugh Segal explains why we need a new national approach to tackling poverty arguing that the costs and consequences of poverty are much larger than direct spending on social programs. Segal has been a long-time proponent of establishing a Guaranteed Annual Income. This lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.
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Louis A. Perez, Jr. on Cuban culture and revolution
Louis A. Perez, Jr. of the Department of History at ...
Louis A. Perez, Jr. of the Department of History at the University of North Carolina, speaks about Cuban culture and revolution.
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John Hancock on Our Capitalist Revolution
John Hancock, Senior Counsellor at the World Trade Organization, delivers ...
John Hancock, Senior Counsellor at the World Trade Organization, delivers a lecture entitled "Our Capitalist Revolution". Together with rapid growth, dazzling technologies and widening circles of development, global capitalism is delivering a turbulent, unequal, out-of-control world, which - Hancock argues - is just what we demanded. His lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.
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Jacalyn Duffin on the History of the Stethoscope
Jacalyn Duffin of the Department of Medicine at Queen's University ...
Jacalyn Duffin of the Department of Medicine at Queen's University on History of the Stethoscope and the Meaning of Life.
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Douglas Thomas on A New Culture of Learning
Douglas Thomas, author of A New Culture of Learning, delivers ...
Douglas Thomas, author of A New Culture of Learning, delivers a lecture on the intersections of technology, culture and education. This lecture is part of Learning 2030, TVO's special series on the future of education and was recorded on October 28, 2012.
