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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Margaret Atwood's 2008 Massey Lecture
Author Margaret Atwood delivers the 2008 Massey Lecture, "Payback: Debt ...
Author Margaret Atwood delivers the 2008 Massey Lecture, "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth".
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Margaret Visser on The Gift of Thanks
Cultural historian and author, Margaret Visser, explores the history and ...
Cultural historian and author, Margaret Visser, explores the history and significance of gratitude.
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Jordan Peterson on the nature of evil
University of Toronto Professor of Psychology Jordan Peterson discusses the ...
University of Toronto Professor of Psychology Jordan Peterson discusses the nature of evil and its distinction from tragedy in this lecture presented at the 2008 Conference on Personal Meaning.
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Thomas Homer-Dixon on climate change
Author and scholar, Thomas Homer-Dixon, explores the convergence of natural, ...
Author and scholar, Thomas Homer-Dixon, explores the convergence of natural, social, and economic stresses that could lead to the breakdown of world economies and political systems.
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Mark Federman on the impact of the internet on education
"No Educator Left Behind" is the title of this lecture ...
"No Educator Left Behind" is the title of this lecture by Mark Federman. In it Federman contends that, as a result of the changes the internet has brought to the way students communicate and interact, universities, if they are to remain relevant, must move from the current model of education as skills centered to one that is more focused on connectivity.
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Ron Deibert on internet censorship
Political science professor Ron Deibert looks at the issue of ...
Political science professor Ron Deibert looks at the issue of internet censorship and surveillance around the world.
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Richard Florida on the creative class
Best-selling author, Richard Florida, describes how the creative class is ...
Best-selling author, Richard Florida, describes how the creative class is impacting cities, business and society at large.
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Leanne Simpson on aboriginal traditional knowledge
Leanne Simpson of Athabasca University's Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge ...
Leanne Simpson of Athabasca University's Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and Research delivers a lecture entitled, "Can Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge Survive in the Modern World?"
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Ronald Wright on American identity
Ronald Wright, the author of "What Is America?: A Short ...
Ronald Wright, the author of "What Is America?: A Short History of the New World Order", examines the dichotomy between "America's ideals and the realities". Wright discusses how such conflicts as those between Native Americans and the Europeans who came to settle the new world have shaped the American identity.
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Mark Kingwell and Malcolm Gladwell on social change
University of Toronto philosophy professor and author, Mark Kingwell, and ...
University of Toronto philosophy professor and author, Mark Kingwell, and journalist Malcolm Gladwell square off in a lively debate about social change and how best to achieve it.
