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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Lt. General (ret.) Andrew Leslie on Lessons From Afghanistan
Lieutenant General (retired) Andrew Leslie, the Former Chief of Transformation ...
Lieutenant General (retired) Andrew Leslie, the Former Chief of Transformation for the Canadian Armed Forces, discusses the lessons that can be learned from the Canadian military mission in Afghanistan. He explores how these lessons need to be applied to the Canadian Force's priorities in the face of future budget cuts.
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Clare Hasenkampf profile - plant biology research
Clare Hasenkampf from the Biology Department at University of Toronto ...
Clare Hasenkampf from the Biology Department at University of Toronto Scarborough is profiled. Hasenkampf's plant biology research and her passion for New Orleans cooking are featured.
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Oliver Sacks on Musicophilia
Neurologist and best-selling author, Oliver Sacks, discusses his book Musicophilia. ...
Neurologist and best-selling author, Oliver Sacks, discusses his book Musicophilia. and the ways our brains interact with and understand music.
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Harvey Brown on the Concepts of Time and Motion
Focusing on the work of Galileo, Newton, Descartes and Einstein, ...
Focusing on the work of Galileo, Newton, Descartes and Einstein, Harvey Brown examines the evolution of thinking about the surprisingly difficult concepts of time and motion.
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Noam Chomsky on The Imperial Presidency
American author and political activist, Noam Chomsky, speking at a ...
American author and political activist, Noam Chomsky, speking at a benefit for Canadian Dimension Magazine, delivers a talk entitled The Imperial Presidency. Recorded at University of Toronto on Nov 21/04.
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Philip Ball on How Science Became Interested in Everything
Science writer Philip Ball on his book Curiosity: How Science ...
Science writer Philip Ball on his book Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything. Ball explores how the history of science was influenced by the cultural accetance or rejection of human curiosity.
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Philip Ball Q and A following his lecture on Curiosity
Philip Ball - Question and Answer session following the lecture ...
Philip Ball - Question and Answer session following the lecture based on his book, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
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Stephen Lewis - interviewed by Gillian Findlay
Stephen Lewis of the Global Commission on HIV and the ...
Stephen Lewis of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, is interviewed by Gillian Findlay following his talk at the Grandest Challenge symposium.
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Samantha Nutt - interviewed by Carol Off
Samantha Nutt, Founder and Executive Director of War Child, is ...
Samantha Nutt, Founder and Executive Director of War Child, is interviewed by Carol Off following her talk at the Grandest Challenge symposium.
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Jordan Peterson on Music and the Patterns of the Mind and W.
Jordan Peterson on Music and the Patterns of the Mind ...
Jordan Peterson on Music and the Patterns of the Mind and World. Peterson, a University of Toronto professor of psychology, discusses the way in which music is perceived by humans. He compares the way we respond to visual arts, particularly the paintings of Picasso, to our perceptions of music in an effort to show how our brains respond differently to varied art forms.
