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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Charles Sabine & Sydney Brenner on The Personalized Genome
Charles Sabine & Sydney Brenner speak at the Gairdner Symposium ...
Charles Sabine & Sydney Brenner speak at the Gairdner Symposium on The Personalized Genome in Toronto (October 30, 2009)
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Robert Adams on Booker Prize winning novel The White Tiger
Teacher, writer and critic, Robert Adams, reviews Aravind Adiga's Booker ...
Teacher, writer and critic, Robert Adams, reviews Aravind Adiga's Booker prize-winning novel, The White Tiger. Corruption, murder, and a series of letters composed by a former chauffeur allow the novel to explore India's caste system and how it's been affected by the country's economic miracle.
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Jordan Peterson on Reality and the Sacred
This video podcast includes the lecture and the Q & ...
This video podcast includes the lecture and the Q & A.
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Vaclav Smil: The Future of the Planet
Author and distinguished professor, Vaclav Smil, is interviewed by Andrew ...
Author and distinguished professor, Vaclav Smil, is interviewed by Andrew Revkin about the future of the planet. This discussion was part of the Q2C Festival in 2009.
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Jordan Peterson: Reality and the Sacred
In his lecture entitled Reality and the Sacred, psychology professor, ...
In his lecture entitled Reality and the Sacred, psychology professor, Jordan Peterson, explores the human search for meaning in a chaotic world and how our perceptions and beliefs shape our sense of reality.
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Palagummi Sainath: The Age of Inequality
Award-winning journalist, Palagummi Sainath, examines the impact of corporate globalization ...
Award-winning journalist, Palagummi Sainath, examines the impact of corporate globalization on Indian society. He argues that neoliberal policies have increased inequality and have had devastating affects on the poor, including farmers. His lecture, entitled Slumdogs vs Millionaires: India in the Age of Inequality, was delivered at York University.
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Cory Doctorow on Copyright vs. Universal Access
Author, activist, journalist and blogger, Cory Doctorow, delivers a lecture ...
Author, activist, journalist and blogger, Cory Doctorow, delivers a lecture on Copyright vs. Universal Access. Subtitled, The State of Play in the Global Copyfight, this lecture was part of the Q2C Festival at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo.
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Nick Mount on T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland
English professor Nick Mount presents us with an examination of ...
English professor Nick Mount presents us with an examination of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and how it became a post-war, modernist masterpiece
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David Gray on Open Economy Macroeconomics
David Gray from the Economics Department at the University of ...
David Gray from the Economics Department at the University of Ottawa presents his competition lecture entitled Open Economy Macroeconomics
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Nadia Habib on Reflections on Gender & Sexuality
Nadia Habib from the Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Department ...
Nadia Habib from the Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Department at York University presents her competition lecture entitled Reflections on Gender & Sexuality
