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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Armine Yalnizyan on Economics, Equality and Democracy
Senior economist Armine Yalnizyan examines how growing economic inequality and ...
Senior economist Armine Yalnizyan examines how growing economic inequality and injustice is affecting democracy. Her lecture, entitled Economics, Equality and Democracy, was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.
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Michael Persinger on No More Secrets
Big Ideas presents Michael Persinger, winner of the 2007 Best ...
Big Ideas presents Michael Persinger, winner of the 2007 Best Lecturer Competition, on Just Suppose You Could Know What Others Are Thinking: No More Secrets
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Cory Doctorow on Why it's a Bad Idea to Regulate Computers
Big Ideas presents Cory Doctorow on Why it's a Bad ...
Big Ideas presents Cory Doctorow on Why it's a Bad Idea to Regulate Computers the Way We Regulate Radios, Guns, Uranium and Other Special-Purpose Tools
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Christopher W. diCarlo on The New Ethics
Big Ideas presents Christopher W. diCarlo, winner of the 2008 ...
Big Ideas presents Christopher W. diCarlo, winner of the 2008 Best Lecturer Competition, on The New Ethics: A Synthetic Approach to Understanding Good and Evil.
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Piergiorgio Odifreddi on the Arts and Mathematics
Italian mathematician, Dr. Piergiorgio Odifreddi, asks What Can the Arts ...
Italian mathematician, Dr. Piergiorgio Odifreddi, asks What Can the Arts Do for Mathematics? In this illustrated talk, he'll examine the deep and close relationships between the objects of mathematics and of the arts. This lecture was co-sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute and the Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science.
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Rod Carley on Theatre in the 21st Century
Big Ideas presents Rod Carley, winner of the 2009 Best ...
Big Ideas presents Rod Carley, winner of the 2009 Best Lecturer Competition, on Theatre in the 21st Century: Touchstone to Humanity
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Robert Adams on The Forgotten
Popular Welsh-born storyteller Robert Adams reviews Elie Wiesel's novel, The ...
Popular Welsh-born storyteller Robert Adams reviews Elie Wiesel's novel, The Forgotten, the profoundly moving story of an ailing Holocaust survivor who lives with disturbing memories and entrusts his son with a mysterious mission. Adams' talk was delivered at the Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue on November 2nd, 2010, as part of Holocaust Education Week.
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Rupinder Brar on The Impact of Astronomy
Big Ideas presents 2010 Best Lecturer Competition winner Rupinder Brar ...
Big Ideas presents 2010 Best Lecturer Competition winner Rupinder Brar on The Impact of Astronomy on Humankind's Perception of the Universe
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Sara Seager on Exoplanets the Search for Habitable Worlds
Big Ideas presents Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of ...
Big Ideas presents Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discussing Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds
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Michael Adams on The Boomer Impact
Environics co-founder, leading pollster, and author, Michael Adams, delivers a ...
Environics co-founder, leading pollster, and author, Michael Adams, delivers a lecture on the Boomer Impact, drawing on the insights and research in his latest book Stayin' Alive: How Canadian Boomers Will Work, Play and Find Meaning in the Second Half of Their Adult Lives. This lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.
