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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Michael Shermer on why people believe weird things
Editor of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer, delivers an entertaining lecture ...
Editor of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer, delivers an entertaining lecture on his book Why People Believe Weird Things.
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Liaquat Ahamed on his book Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
The author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke ...
The author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, Liaquat Ahamed, discusses the connections between the world's financial decision makers in the period leading up to the Great Depression and their counterparts in the current global financial crisis.
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Camille Paglia on religion
Describing herself as an atheist who defends religion, academic and ...
Describing herself as an atheist who defends religion, academic and author, Camille Paglia, argues that an understanding of world religions and their symbols is essential to fully understanding human civilization and our place in the universe.
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Michael Marrus (Pt. 2) on great moments in great trials
The second part of the lecture entitled Justice and Theatre: ...
The second part of the lecture entitled Justice and Theatre: Great Moments in Great Trials examines Nicolae Bukharin and the Moscow Show Trials and the 1945 Nuremberg Trials.
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Michael Marrus on great moments in great trials
The first of this two-part lecture entitled Justice and Theatre: ...
The first of this two-part lecture entitled Justice and Theatre: Great Moments in Great Trials looks at the libel trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895.
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Richard Leakey on Climate Change and the Future of Life on Earth
Richard Leakey, professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University in ...
Richard Leakey, professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University in New York is best known for his paleontological work in Africa. His lecture, entitled Climate Change and the Future of Life on Earth deals with wildlife conservation and was recorded at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on May 30th, 2009.
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Leonard Mlodinow on randomness and his book The Drunkard's Walk
Leonard Mlodinow, of the California Institute of Technology is the ...
Leonard Mlodinow, of the California Institute of Technology is the author of The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. His lecture on the subject of randomness was presented by the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario on May 6th, 2009.
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Lawrence Krauss on dark matter, dark energy and the end of the universe as we know it
Lawrence Krauss is a professor in the Department of Physics ...
Lawrence Krauss is a professor in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University. His lecture entitled Life, the Universe and Nothing was recorded at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto on March 27th, 2009.
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Christopher Hitchens on The Ten Commandments
Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great: How Religion ...
Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, delivers a lecture at the Royal Ontario Museum entitled The Three New Commandments in conjunction with the exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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J Ralston Saul, Naomi Klein and others, on leadership
Panelists John Ralston Saul, Margaret MacMillan, Naomi Klein, and Adam ...
Panelists John Ralston Saul, Margaret MacMillan, Naomi Klein, and Adam Gopnik discuss what constitutes a great leader and why some leaders fail while others thrive.
