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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Michael Persinger on Psychotropic Drugs
Dr. Michael Persinger, (Laurentian University - Neuroscience) winner of the ...
Dr. Michael Persinger, (Laurentian University - Neuroscience) winner of the 2007 Best Lecturer Competition, on Psychotropic Drugs.
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Andrew Coyne Q & A
Following his lecture on Post-Economic Politics in Canada, National Post ...
Following his lecture on Post-Economic Politics in Canada, National Post columnist Andrew Coyne fields questions from the audience. This event was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada (LRC).
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Chris Turner on How to Thrive in the Sustainable Economy
Chris Turner discusses his book The Leap: How to Survive ...
Chris Turner discusses his book The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy. Citing German energy policy and business examples such as Walmart, Turner explains how sustainability makes excellent business sense.
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Leon Kass on Why Not Immortality?
Dr. Leon Kass, Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics, ...
Dr. Leon Kass, Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics, examines the ethical dilemmas surrounding stem cell research. Dr. Kass addresses the philosophical question: Why not immortality?
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Arthur Herman: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
Arthur Herman on his book "To Rule the Waves: How ...
Arthur Herman on his book "To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World".
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Leroy Hood: From Reactive to Proactive Medicine
Leroy Hood, of the Institute for Systems Biology, on Emerging ...
Leroy Hood, of the Institute for Systems Biology, on Emerging Technologies and the Transformation from Reactive to Proactive Medicine.
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Liam Kennedy on The Irish Famine and the Jewish Holocaust
Liam Kennedy of the School of History at Queen's University ...
Liam Kennedy of the School of History at Queen's University (Belfast) delivers a lecture entitled, Cry Holocaust: The Great Irish Famine and the Jewish Holocaust.
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Vaclav Smil on Energy Transitions
Vaclav Smil of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of ...
Vaclav Smil of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Manitoba, discusses Energy Transitions in this lecture which was part of the Waterloo Global Science Initiative (WGSI)Equinox Summit, hosted by the Perimeter Institute.
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Jane Goodall on Chimpanzee and Human Emotions
Primatologist Jane Goodall delivers a lecture on the similarities between ...
Primatologist Jane Goodall delivers a lecture on the similarities between chimpanzee and human emotions, preserving the environment, and hope.
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Nick Mount on Nabokov's "Lolita"
University of Toronto English Professor Nick Mount on Vladimir Nabokov's ...
University of Toronto English Professor Nick Mount on Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita". The lecture was part of his Literature for Our Time series and was delivered at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, on Feb. 12th, 2009.
