Big Ideas (Audio)

Dr. Marc D. Lewis on Memoirs of an Addicted Brain

Dr. Marc D. Lewis discusses the story and the science behind his book Memoirs of an Addicted...

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Lisa Harvey-Smith on the SKA mega-telescope

Lisa Harvey-Smith of CSIRO discusses the mega-telescope known as the Square Kilometre Array....

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Allen J. Frances on the overdiagnosis of mental illness

Psychiatrist and author, Allen J. Frances, believes that mental illnesses are being...

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Dr. Iain McGilchrist on The Divided Brain

Renowned British psychiatrist and author, Iain McGilchrist, delivers a lecture entitled Our Mind...

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Dr. Norman Doidge on neuroplasticity

Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and best-selling author, Dr. Norman Doidge, on his book, The Brain...

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David Healy on Psychopharmacology

Psychiatrist David Healy with his lecture Gripped by a Python: How Pharmaceutical Companies...

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Zach Hall on Neuroethics

Zach Hall, Dean of Research at the School of Medicine, University of Southern California, on...

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Marc Fournier on Domination and Depression

Psychology professor, Marc Fournier, on Domination and Depression. His lecture was delivered at...

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Kay Redfield Jamison on Understanding Suicide

Psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison on Understanding Suicide. Her lecture, drawing on research...

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Graeme Gibson on our human connection to nature

Graeme Gibson, author of The Bedside Book of Beasts, and recipient of the Order of Canada,...

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Francis Broun on Artemisia

Art historian Francis Broun discusses the work of the 17th century painter Artemisia Gentileschi....

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Ian Hacking on The Biosocial Being

Philosopher Ian Hacking delivers the 2011 Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture entitled Who Are You? The...

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Romeo Dallaire and Stephen Lewis on Child Soldiers

Drawing on their vast experiences and first-hand knowledge, distinguished humanitarians Senator...

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Daniel Kahneman on The Machinery of the Mind

Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, on The Machinery of the Mind. Kahneman is...

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Darin Barney on Citizenship in the Technological Republic

McGill University professor, Darin Barney, delivers the 2007 Hart House Lecture entitled One...

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George Dyson on the Origins of the Digital Universe

Science historian and author (Darwin Among the Machines) George Dyson on the Origins of the...

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Alberto Manguel on The Screen of Hal

Alberto Manguel delivers the final lecture in the 2007 Massey Lecture series, entitled The Screen...

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John Duffy on the emerging politics of technology

John Duffy, advisor to former Prime Minister Paul Martin and founder of StrategyCorp, tackles the...

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Graham Farmelo on Paul Dirac and Mathematical Beauty

Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University in Boston, Graham Farmelo, on Paul Dirac...

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Charles Taylor on Religion and Violence

Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University, Charles Taylor, on...

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