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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Hod Lipson on The Robotic Scientist:Mining Experimental Data
Big Ideas presents Hod Lipson of Cornell University exploring his ...
Big Ideas presents Hod Lipson of Cornell University exploring his work in such areas as evolutionary robotics and programmable self-assembly, Lipson delivers a lecture entitled The Robotic Scientist: Mining Experimental Data for Scientific Laws, from Cognitive Robots to Computational Biology.
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Ian Hacking on The Mathematical Animal
Winner of the prestigious Holberg International Memorial Prize, philosopher Ian ...
Winner of the prestigious Holberg International Memorial Prize, philosopher Ian Hacking presents a lecture entitled The Mathematical Animal.
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Short documentary on Toronto graphic novelist, Seth.
Big Ideas presents a short documentary on Toronto graphic novelist, ...
Big Ideas presents a short documentary on Toronto graphic novelist, Seth. Seth is the creator of Palookaville and It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken.
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Nick Mount on It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken
Big Ideas presents University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, ...
Big Ideas presents University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, on the graphic novel It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth.
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David Sloan Wilson on Religion and Other Meaning Systems
Professor David Sloan Wilson, author of Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, ...
Professor David Sloan Wilson, author of Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society, delivers the annual Wiegand Memorial Foundation lecture entitled Religion and Other Meaning Systems. He examines how the experience of the religious believer differs from the secular thinker and argues that both can be understood in terms their particular meaning systems.
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Robert Adams on The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Big Ideas presents author and book reviewer Robert Adams as ...
Big Ideas presents author and book reviewer Robert Adams as he discusses the novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.
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Richard Wilkinson on The Age of Unequals
One of Britain's leading social epidemiologists, Richard Wilkinson, looks at ...
One of Britain's leading social epidemiologists, Richard Wilkinson, looks at what it means to live in a new age of inequality. Wilkinson is the co-author of the groundbreaking, international bestseller The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone.
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Seth Lloyd on Quantum Life
Big Ideas presents Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute for ...
Big Ideas presents Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology on Quantum Life, how organisms have evolved to make use of quantum effects.
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Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott on his life and work
English professor, Christian Campbell, interviews Caribbean poet and playwright, Derek ...
English professor, Christian Campbell, interviews Caribbean poet and playwright, Derek Walcott, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. Walcott discusses issues of identity, culture, and language in this illuminating conversation, filmed at Hart House Theatre on November 23, 2010.
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Brian Dalton on Mr. Deity podcasts & the morality of atheism
Big Ideas presents Brian Dalton on his Mr. Deity podcasts, ...
Big Ideas presents Brian Dalton on his Mr. Deity podcasts, the amorality of Christianity and the morality of atheism
