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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Robert Adams on Herzog by Saul Bellow.
Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the ...
Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the 1964 novel Herzog by Saul Bellow.
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Daniel Gottesman on Quantum Computing
Daniel Gottesman of the Perimeter Institute discusses quantum computing and ...
Daniel Gottesman of the Perimeter Institute discusses quantum computing and the cryptographic protocols that use quantum physics, and that one day will protect all that which we would want to stay secret.
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Jeffrey Rosenthal on The Curious World of Probabilities
The author of Struck by Lightning - and the statistician ...
The author of Struck by Lightning - and the statistician who crunched the numbers to reveal that a statistically improbable number of lottery retailers were winning major prizes in Ontario - Jeffrey Rosenthal guides us through the maze of numbers and percentages to show us to how calculate correct probabilities.
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Simon Winchester on A Crack in the Edge of the World
Simon Winchester on his book A Crack in the Edge ...
Simon Winchester on his book A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906.
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Robert Adams on the novel No Great Mischief
Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the ...
Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the novel No Great Mischief by Alastair MacLeod.
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Janna Levin on her book Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Janna Levin on her book Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, ...
Janna Levin on her book Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the story of two great mathematicians, Kurt Godel and Alan Turing. They were men who had the capacity to think about the most abstract of mathematical truths but had very limited abilities when it came to confronting the mundane aspects of life. Both committed suicide.
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Kevin Dutton on The Wisdom of Psychopaths
Kevin Dutton on his book The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What ...
Kevin Dutton on his book The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success.
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Robert Adams on the novel The Corrections
Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the ...
Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the novel The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
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Nima Arkani-Hamed on the Large Hadron Collider
Nima Arkani-Hamed on the Large Hadron Collider and the Future ...
Nima Arkani-Hamed on the Large Hadron Collider and the Future of Fundamental Physics. Located on the Swiss-French border, the Large Hadron Collider is a circular tunnel 27 km in circumference. It will allow physicists to probe the constituent parts of the proton, looking for new forms of matter and insights into the formation of the universe.
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Salmon Akhtar on The Trauma of Geographical Dislocation
Salmon Akhtar on The Trauma of Geographical Dislocation, how immigration ...
Salmon Akhtar on The Trauma of Geographical Dislocation, how immigration can affect a person's mental health.
