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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Leon Kass on Why Not Immortality?
Dr. Leon Kass, Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics, ...
Dr. Leon Kass, Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics, examines the ethical dilemmas surrounding stem cell research. Dr. Kass addresses the philosophical question: Why not immortality?
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Arthur Herman: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
Arthur Herman on his book "To Rule the Waves: How ...
Arthur Herman on his book "To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World".
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Leroy Hood: From Reactive to Proactive Medicine
Leroy Hood, of the Institute for Systems Biology, on Emerging ...
Leroy Hood, of the Institute for Systems Biology, on Emerging Technologies and the Transformation from Reactive to Proactive Medicine.
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Liam Kennedy on The Irish Famine and the Jewish Holocaust
Liam Kennedy of the School of History at Queen's University ...
Liam Kennedy of the School of History at Queen's University (Belfast) delivers a lecture entitled, Cry Holocaust: The Great Irish Famine and the Jewish Holocaust.
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Vaclav Smil on Energy Transitions
Vaclav Smil of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of ...
Vaclav Smil of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Manitoba, discusses Energy Transitions in this lecture which was part of the Waterloo Global Science Initiative (WGSI)Equinox Summit, hosted by the Perimeter Institute.
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Jane Goodall on Chimpanzee and Human Emotions
Primatologist Jane Goodall delivers a lecture on the similarities between ...
Primatologist Jane Goodall delivers a lecture on the similarities between chimpanzee and human emotions, preserving the environment, and hope.
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Nick Mount on Nabokov's "Lolita"
University of Toronto English Professor Nick Mount on Vladimir Nabokov's ...
University of Toronto English Professor Nick Mount on Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita". The lecture was part of his Literature for Our Time series and was delivered at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, on Feb. 12th, 2009.
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Ian Buruma on Death of Metropolis
Writer and academic, Ian Buruma on Death of Metropolis: Why ...
Writer and academic, Ian Buruma on Death of Metropolis: Why are Some Hostile to Cities?
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Natalia Toro on Fundamental Physics at the LHC
Natalia Toro explains how complex collision data from the Large ...
Natalia Toro explains how complex collision data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being digested and examined and how it may set the course for the science of the future. Her lecture was delivered at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo on September 18, 2011.
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Seth Lloyd on Programming the Universe
Seth Llyod is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical ...
Seth Llyod is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His talk, "Programming the Universe", is about the computational power of atoms, electrons, and elementary particles.
