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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Adam Gopnik on Christian Writers and Liberal Readers
Adam Gopnik, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, discusses ...
Adam Gopnik, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, discusses W. H. Auden, William Emerson and Lewis Carol in a lecture entitled, The Morning Star is the Evening Star: Christian Writers and Liberal Readers.
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Alain de Botton on Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton discusses his book Status Anxiety which examines ...
Alain de Botton discusses his book Status Anxiety which examines our fears over what others think about us and about how we are judged to be either a success or failure.
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Robert Morrison on Islam and Science
Robert Morrison, Associate Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College, on ...
Robert Morrison, Associate Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College, on Islam, Science and the Importance of History. Morrison cites Islamic religious scholars from historical times and from the present in order to show how Islam and science are compatable.
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Paul Steinhardt on Impossible Crystals
Physicist Paul Steinhardt discusses the creation of "Impossible crystals": quasi-crystals ...
Physicist Paul Steinhardt discusses the creation of "Impossible crystals": quasi-crystals with five-fold symmetry previously believed impossible.
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Andrew Coyne on Post-Economic Politics in Canada
National Post columnist, Andrew Coyne, presents a lecture entitled Post-Economic ...
National Post columnist, Andrew Coyne, presents a lecture entitled Post-Economic Politics in Canada. In Coyne's opinion, the state of the economy, contrary to popular belief, will not be the defining issue in our public policy debates. His lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada and was delivered at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto on May 14th, 2012.
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Simon Winchester on his book The Meaning of Everything
Simon Winchester discusses his book The Meaning of Everything: The ...
Simon Winchester discusses his book The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Marc D. Lewis Questions and Answers
Marc D. Lewis answers questions following his lecture based on ...
Marc D. Lewis answers questions following his lecture based on his book Memoirs of an Addicted Brain.
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Dallaire and Lewis Q & A following talk on child soldiers
Following their PEN Canada discussion on child soldiers, Romeo Dallaire ...
Following their PEN Canada discussion on child soldiers, Romeo Dallaire and Stephen Lewis field questions from the audience.
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Dr. Marc D. Lewis on Memoirs of an Addicted Brain
Dr. Marc D. Lewis discusses the story and the science ...
Dr. Marc D. Lewis discusses the story and the science behind his book Memoirs of an Addicted Brain. Lewis is a professor at the Behavioral Science Institute, part of Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Lewis's book documents the years he spent addicted to drugs including morphine and heroin, and links his first-hand drug experiences to his current behavioral science research into the interaction between drugs and brain chemistry.
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Lisa Harvey-Smith on the SKA mega-telescope
Lisa Harvey-Smith of CSIRO discusses the mega-telescope known as the ...
Lisa Harvey-Smith of CSIRO discusses the mega-telescope known as the Square Kilometre Array. CSIRO, the Australian Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, is part of the continent-spanning next-generation radio telescope project which is due to be completed in 2019.
