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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Gabor Mate on addictions
Drawing on his experience with drug addicted patients from Vancouver's ...
Drawing on his experience with drug addicted patients from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Dr. Gabor Mate discusses how the medical and legal systems are failing in the so called "war on drugs". Dr. Mate reads from his fourth book, "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction", and suggests ways in which society's approach to dealing with drugs and drug addicts could be improved.
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Ovide Mercredi on Truth and Reconciliation
In light of the Canadian government's recent apology, and as ...
In light of the Canadian government's recent apology, and as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission commences its work, Ovide Mercredi, chief of the Misipawistic Cree nation and former chief of the Assembly of First Nations, reflects on what true reconciliation means and explains that it will only work if the reconciliation process engages aboriginals as equal partners.
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Salman Akhtar on the trauma of dislocation
Jefferson Medical College professor Salman Akhtar discusses "The Trauma of ...
Jefferson Medical College professor Salman Akhtar discusses "The Trauma of Geophysical Dislocation", proposing that psychoanalysts need to pay special attention to their immigrant patients. Akhtar suggests that the immigration experience creates disruptions to the waking screen that are too often ignored in therapy and that the objects and landscapes that are left behind have a more significant impact on the immigrant's psychological well being than has generally been recognized.
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Strobe Talbott on modern statehood
Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., ...
Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., delivers this year's Donner Canadian Foundation lecture drawing upon his recently released book The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States and the Quest for a Global Nation.
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Benjamin Barber on consumerism and globalization
Benjamin Barber's books include "Strong Democracy", "Jihad vs. McWorld" and ...
Benjamin Barber's books include "Strong Democracy", "Jihad vs. McWorld" and "Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole". Speaking at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Barber explains how the ideal of people as citizens has been undermined by the drive to turn us all into consumers. The title of his talk is, "Consumerism, Globalization and the End of Sovereignty".
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William D. Phillips on the universe
"Time and Einstein in the 21st Century: The Coolest Stuff ...
"Time and Einstein in the 21st Century: The Coolest Stuff in the Universe" is the title of this exceptionally entertaining lecture. Phillips, who works with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, demonstrates the cooling potential of liquid nitrogen, the laser based technique known as "optical molasses" and shows how magnetic bottles can help science built more accurate atomic clocks.
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Richard Lewontin on co-evolution of organisms and environment
Professor Richard C. Lewontin of Harvard University delivers a lecture ...
Professor Richard C. Lewontin of Harvard University delivers a lecture on the topic of The Co-evolution of Organisms and the Environment.
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Alberto Manguel on Picasso
Alberto Manguel on the duality of Pablo Picasso's artistic brilliance ...
Alberto Manguel on the duality of Pablo Picasso's artistic brilliance and personal evil.
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Guy Proulx on the aging brain
Dr. Guy Proulx, Director of Psychology and NeuroRehabilitation at the ...
Dr. Guy Proulx, Director of Psychology and NeuroRehabilitation at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care delivers a lecture entitled, Wisdom Versus Dementia: A Walk Through the Aging Brain.
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Kay Redfield Jamison on understanding suicide
Kay Redfield Jamison of Johns Hopkins University gives a lecture ...
Kay Redfield Jamison of Johns Hopkins University gives a lecture about suicide drawing on the research from her book, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide.
