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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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    Bruce Meyer on The Four Phases of Yeats

    Bruce Meyer from the English Department at Laurentian University at ...

    Bruce Meyer from the English Department at Laurentian University at Georgian College presents his competition lecture entitled The Four Pases of Yeats.

    Mar 27, 2010 Read more
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    Monika Havelka on Why Sex? The Evolution of a Paradox

    Monika Havelka from the Biology Department at the University of ...

    Monika Havelka from the Biology Department at the University of Toronto Mississauga presents her competition lecture entitled Why Sex? The Evolution of a Paradox

    Mar 26, 2010 Read more
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    Finalist version of BL 2010 winner lecture

    Finalist version of BL 2010 winner lecture

    Mar 19, 2010
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    Virginia Walker on HIV, Parasites and the Exhausted Immune S

    Virginia Walker from the Biology Department at Queen's University presents ...

    Virginia Walker from the Biology Department at Queen's University presents her competition lecture entitled HIV, Parasites and the Exhausted Immune System.

    Mar 19, 2010 Read more
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    Sohail Rashid on Birth Order and Personality

    Sohail Rashid from the Psychology Department at Ryerson University presents ...

    Sohail Rashid from the Psychology Department at Ryerson University presents his competition lecture entitled Birth Order and Personality.

    Mar 12, 2010 Read more
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    Karolyn Smardz Frost on Toronto's Underground Railroad

    Karolyn Smardz Frost from the History Department at York University ...

    Karolyn Smardz Frost from the History Department at York University presents her competition lecture entitled Fugitive Sources: Uncovering Toronto's Underground Railroad Connections.

    Mar 12, 2010 Read more
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    Steve Joordens on Critical Thinking

    Steve Joordens from the Psychology Department at the University of ...

    Steve Joordens from the Psychology Department at the University of Toronto Scarborough presents his competition lecture entitled You Can Lead Students to Knowledge, But How Do You Make Them Think?

    Mar 5, 2010 Read more
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    Eleanor MacDonald on Are We Postmodern?

    Eleanor MacDonald from the Political Studies Department at Queen's University ...

    Eleanor MacDonald from the Political Studies Department at Queen's University presents her competition lecture entitled Are We Postmodern?

    Mar 5, 2010 Read more
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    Nick Mount: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

    As part of his Literature for Our Time series, University ...

    As part of his Literature for Our Time series, University of Toronto English professor Nick Mount discusses Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.

    Feb 26, 2010 Read more
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    Michael Ruse: Is Darwinism Past its Sell-by Date?

    Michael Ruse is professor of philosophy at Florida State University.

    Feb 23, 2010
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