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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John Gray on The Immortalization Commission
Philosopher and author, John Gray, on The Immortalization Commission: Science ...
Philosopher and author, John Gray, on The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death. In the late nineteenth century and as a consequence of Darwinism, many thinkers turned to science to solve the riddle of death. Gray explores humankind's dangerous striving toward a scientific version of immortality.
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Freeman Dyson on Living Through Four Revolutions
Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University delivers a lecture ...
Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University delivers a lecture entitled, Living Through Four Revolutions. Dyson discusses Space Technology, Nuclear Energy, the Genome and the Computer Revolution.
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Jeff Melanson on The Evolving Role of the Arts in Canada
Jeff Melanson on The Evolving Role of the Arts in ...
Jeff Melanson on The Evolving Role of the Arts in Canada. This lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada and was recorded at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto on May 24, 2011.
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David Keith on Technology, Energy and Nature
David Keith, speaking at the Equinox Summit, discusses Technology, Energy ...
David Keith, speaking at the Equinox Summit, discusses Technology, Energy and Nature - Human Values and Open Choices. Professor Keith holds the Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment.
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Stephen Hawking: The Power of Ideas
Ivan Semeniuk, Chief of Corespondents for Nature leads a discussion ...
Ivan Semeniuk, Chief of Corespondents for Nature leads a discussion centered on the ideas and thoughts of Stephen Hawking. Neil Turok, Julie Payette, Rebecca Saxe and S. James Gates, Jr. cover topics including unfied theory, cosmology and colonization of space.
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Nick Mount interviews novelist Sam Lipsyte
University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, in conversation with ...
University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, in conversation with author Sam Lipsyte. The interview was taped following Mount's lecture on Lipsyte's novel Home Land
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Andrei Markovits on European Anti-Americanism
Big Ideas presents University of Michigan professor, Andrei Markovits, on ...
Big Ideas presents University of Michigan professor, Andrei Markovits, on European Anti-Americanism
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Nick Mount on Sam Lipsyte's novel Home Land
English professor, Nick Mount, provides insight into Sam Lipsyte's novel ...
English professor, Nick Mount, provides insight into Sam Lipsyte's novel Home Land. The lecture was part of the Literature for Our Time series at the University of Toronto.
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Alexander Nehamas -individual character and ideas of beauty
Big Ideas presents Princeton University professor of Philosophy and Comparative ...
Big Ideas presents Princeton University professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Alexander Nehamas, on how individual character defines our ideas of what is beautiful
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Eric Mazur on Stopping Time
Eric Mazur, the Dean of Applied Physics at Harvard University, ...
Eric Mazur, the Dean of Applied Physics at Harvard University, delivers a lecture entitled, Stopping Time. In it he breaks time down into it's smallest measureable components via photography and developments in laser technology.
