Big Ideas (Audio)

Steven Pinker on Thinking About Our Society

Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, delivers a lecture entitled Thinking...

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Ray Jayawardhana on Alien Planets

Author and astronomer Ray Jayawardhana discusses Alien Planets and his latest book Strange New...

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Charles Taylor and Jonathan Sacks on The Future of Religion

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

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Robert J. Sawyer on Humanity 2.0

What will it mean to be human in the future? Uploading consciousness into virtual worlds and...

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Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus

Author, teacher and activist, Clay Shirky, discusses the visionary insights of Marshall McLuhan...

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David Brooks on The Social Animal

In a lecture entitled How Success Happens, New York Times columnist and author, David Brooks,...

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Julie Payette, Canadian Space Agency Perspectives from Space

The Canadian Space Agency's Chief Astronaut, Julie Payette delivers a lecture entitled Canadian...

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Palestine and the Arab Spring - Bonus audio

Bonus audio - Moderator Mark Kingwell and panelists Michael Ignatieff and Ramin Jahanbegloo...

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Thomas Homer-Dixon Q and A-Civilization Far From Equilibrium

Thomas Homer-Dixon answers questions following his lecture entitled Civilization Far From...

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Keith Devlin on Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple

Keith Devlin, Executive Director of the H-STAR Institute at Stanford University, discusses...

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Steve Paikin on The Personal Price of a Political Life.

Steve Paikin, anchor and senior editor of TVO's series The Agenda with Steve Paikin, delivers the...

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John Ibbitson on the Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus

John Ibbitson, Ottawa bureau chief for The Globe and Mail, delivers a lecture on The Collapse of...

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Armine Yalnizyan and William Watson on economic disparity

Armine Yalnizyan, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and William...

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Liberty and the Arab Spring: Exploring Isaiah Berlin's Ideas

Moderator Mark Kingwell and panelists Michael Ignatieff and Ramin Jahanbegloo discuss the...

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Gaspar Tamas on The Failure of Liberal Democracy

Hungarian philosopher, Gaspar Tamas,on The Failure of Liberal Democracy in Eastern Europe and...

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Gabor Maté on The Human Face of Addictive Behavior

Drawing on his experiences with addicted patients from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Dr. Gabor...

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Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Things to Come

Hod Lipson of Cornell University discusses the future of 3-D printing in his lecture entitled,...

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Janice Stein on 9/11: Reflections after Ten Years

Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs, Janice Stein, provides a summary and closing...

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Ronald Pruessen on 9/11: Reflections after Ten Years

University of Toronto history professor, Ronald Pruessen, with his contribution to 9/11: Ten...

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Margaret MacMillan on 9/11: Reflections after Ten Years

Oxford history professor, Margaret MacMillan, with her contribution to 9/11: Ten Reflections...

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