Big Ideas Video
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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Keith Devlin on Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple
Keith Devlin, Executive Director of the H-STAR Institute at Stanford ...
Keith Devlin, Executive Director of the H-STAR Institute at Stanford University, discusses Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years
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John Ibbitson on the Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus
John Ibbitson, Ottawa bureau chief for The Globe and Mail, ...
John Ibbitson, Ottawa bureau chief for The Globe and Mail, delivers a lecture on The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus and the Rise of Ontario as a Pacific Province. This lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.
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Armine Yalnizyan and William Watson on economic disparity
Armine Yalnizyan, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy ...
Armine Yalnizyan, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and William Watson, McGill economics professor, debate Inequality: A Threat to Democracy? This is the 2011 Keith Davey Forum on Public Affairs, moderated by political scientist Jeffrey Kopstein.
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Liberty and the Arab Spring: Exploring Isaiah Berlin's Ideas
Moderator Mark Kingwell and panelists Michael Ignatieff and Ramin Jahanbegloo ...
Moderator Mark Kingwell and panelists Michael Ignatieff and Ramin Jahanbegloo discuss the writings of political philosopher Isaiah Berlin as they pertain to Liberty and The Arab Spring
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Gaspar Tamas on The Failure of Liberal Democracy
Hungarian philosopher, Gaspar Tamas,on The Failure of Liberal Democracy in ...
Hungarian philosopher, Gaspar Tamas,on The Failure of Liberal Democracy in Eastern Europe and Everywhere Else. His lecture was delivered at the Munk School of Global Affairs on September 20, 2011. Tamas is a prolific writer of essays with a wide-ranging and distinguished career in academics and government. He was also a leading figure in the East European dissident movements.
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Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Things to Come
Hod Lipson of Cornell University discusses the future of 3-D ...
Hod Lipson of Cornell University discusses the future of 3-D printing in his lecture entitled, Programmable Matter: The Shape of Things to Come
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Alex Himelfarb on the consequences of tax cuts
How Did Taxes Become a Bad Word? The Former Clerk ...
How Did Taxes Become a Bad Word? The Former Clerk of the Privy Council, Alex Himelfarb, discusses why we should be investing more, not less, in our future. While today's political leaders exalt the benefits of increased tax-cutting, Himelfarb argues that further tax cuts will come with serious consequences, including cuts to services and deeper inequality. According to Himelfarb, what we need is nothing less than a re-think about what our future is worth. His lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.
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Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram
Leonard Susskind of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics discusses ...
Leonard Susskind of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics discusses the indestructability of information and the nature of black holes in a lecture entitled The World As Hologram.
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Noam Chomsky on the State-Corporate Complex
Academic, author and political activist, Noam Chomsky, on the State-Corporate ...
Academic, author and political activist, Noam Chomsky, on the State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival. Chomsky's lecture was delivered at the Hart House Great Hall at the University of Toronto on April 7, 2011.
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Thomas Homer-Dixon on Civilization Far From Equilibrium
Thomas Homer-Dixon presents his lecture Civilization Far From Equilibrium: Energy, ...
Thomas Homer-Dixon presents his lecture Civilization Far From Equilibrium: Energy, Complexity and Human Survival at the Equinox Summit - Energy 2030.
