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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Lee Smolin on why science works
Lee Smolin of Perimeter Institute delivers his lecture, Why Does ...
Lee Smolin of Perimeter Institute delivers his lecture, Why Does Science Work?
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Zach Hall on neuroethics
Zach Hall - Dean of Research at the School of ...
Zach Hall - Dean of Research at the School of Medicine of University of Southern California discusses, Neuroethics: A Challenge for a New Age.
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Clifford Will on Was Einstein Right? Can Einstein’s Theories Survive Today’s Scientific Scrutiny?
Clifford Will delivers a lecture entitled "Was Einstein Right? Can ...
Clifford Will delivers a lecture entitled "Was Einstein Right? Can Einstein?s Theories Survive Today?s Scientific Scrutiny?"
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Arthur I Miller on Einstein, Picasso: Space Time and the Beauty That Causes Havoc
Arthur I. Miller compares Einstein to Picasso. Miller is the ...
Arthur I. Miller compares Einstein to Picasso. Miller is the author of a book entitled "Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc".
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Howard Gardner on Five Minds for the Future
Howard Gardner is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School ...
Howard Gardner is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is the author of "Five Minds for the Future". In this lecture he discusses his latest theories on cognition and creativity and outlines why he is currently researching what place the "ethical mind" and the "respectful mind" hold in today?s technologically sophisticated and interrelated world.
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Michael Eric Dyson on the life and death of Martin Luther King and modern US race issues
Michael Eric Dyson, the author of "April 4, 1968", discusses ...
Michael Eric Dyson, the author of "April 4, 1968", discusses the life and death of Martin Luther King as they pertain to race issues in the U.S. and around the world. 40 years after King's assassination, the race for the leadership of the Democratic Party has returned issues of race to the forefront of American politics and Dyson uses his book as a springboard to examine Barack Obama's candidacy and what it means for America.
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Charles Jencks on post-modernism
Architect and author, Charles Jencks, presents a lecture based on ...
Architect and author, Charles Jencks, presents a lecture based on his recent book "Critical Modernism: Where is Post-Modernism Going?"
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Neil Turok on What Banged? Causes of the Big Bang
Professor Neil Turok, Chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University, ...
Professor Neil Turok, Chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University, presents his lecture "What Banged?" which examines the possible causes of The Big Bang, the initial singularity that created our universe.
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Gerald Cupchik on The Two Faces of Emotion
University of Toronto (Scarborough) psychology professor Gerald Cupchik delivers his ...
University of Toronto (Scarborough) psychology professor Gerald Cupchik delivers his competition lecture entitled Two Faces of Emotion.
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Christopher diCarlo on The Relations of Natural Systems
University of Ontario Institute of Technology professor Christopher diCarlo (Health ...
University of Ontario Institute of Technology professor Christopher diCarlo (Health Sciences and Criminology) delivers his competition lecture entitled The Relations of Natural Systems.
