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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-bite television norm. The simple, bold concept is a victory of substance over style. Big Ideas airs Saturdays and Sundays at 4:00 PM EST on TVO - Canada's largest educational broadcaster.
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Download Now · | Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:00
Dr. Guy Proulx, Director of Psychology and NeuroRehabilitation at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care delivers a lecture entitled, Wisdom Versus Dementia: A Walk Through the Aging Brain.
February 3 2001:Kay Redfield Jamison
Download Now · | Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:00
Kay Redfield Jamison of Johns Hopkins University gives a lecture about suicide drawing on the research from her book, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide.
Download Now · | Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:00
Lee Smolin of Perimeter Institute delivers his lecture, Why Does Science Work?
Download Now · | Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:00
Mark Kingwell delivers a lecture on Representations of the Intellectual in Everyday Life. Has pop culture ruined the intellectual?
Download Now · | Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:00
Zach Hall - Dean of Research at the School of Medicine of University of Southern California discusses, Neuroethics: A Challenge for a New Age.
Download Now · | Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:00
Dr. Leon Kass, Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics, examines the distinct ethical dilemmas that surround stem cell research. Dr. Kass addresses a fundamental philosophical question: Why not immortality?
February 18 2006: Clifford Will
Download Now · | Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:00
Clifford Will delivers a lecture entitled, "Was Einstein Right? Can Einstein?s Theories Survive Today?s Scientific Scrutiny?"
Download Now · | Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:00
Wendy Steiner, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania presents a lecture based on her book The Trouble with Beauty.
February 18 2006: Arthur I. Miller
Download Now · | Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:00
Arthur I. Miller compares Einstein to Picasso. Miller is the author of a book entitled "Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc".
Download Now · | Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:00
Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and best-selling author, Dr. Norman Doidge, discusses the findings in his latest book, The Brain that Changes Itself, an examination of brain neuroplasticity.
Download Now · | Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:00
Howard Gardner is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is the author of "Five Minds for the Future". In this lecture he discusses his latest theories on cognition and creativity and outlines why he is currently researching what place the "ethical mind" and the "respectful mind" hold in today's technologically sophisticated and interrelated world.
Download Now · | Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:00
John Stape, the author of "The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad", outlines the ways in which his book, released to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the novelist's birth, differs from earlier biographies of Conrad.
June 14 2008: Andrea Mandel-Campbell
Download Now · | Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:00
Business journalist Andrea Mandel-Campbell, author of "Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson", discusses her views on why Canadian corporations have failed to take advantage of the benefits of globalization and emerging markets, a trend that she believes has led to the takeover of many Canadian companies by foreign multinationals.
Download Now · | Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:30
Journalist Hamida Ghafour on her book "The Sleeping Buddha: Portraits of a Changing Afghanistan".
Download Now · | Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:00
A lecture by Marina Nemat, author of "Prisoner of Tehran".
May 31 2008: Michael Eric Dyson
Download Now · | Sat, 31 May 2008 21:00
Michael Eric Dyson, the author of "April 4, 1968", discusses the life and death of Martin Luther King as they pertain to race issues in the U.S. and around the world. 40 years after King's assassination, the race for the leadership of the Democratic Party has returned issues of race to the forefront of American politics and Dyson uses his book as a springboard to examine Barack Obama's candidacy and what it means for America.
Download Now · | Sat, 24 May 2008 21:00
Architect and author, Charles Jencks, presents a lecture based on his recent book "Critical Modernism: Where is Post-Modernism Going?"
Download Now · | Sat, 17 May 2008 21:00
Paul Collier, Professor of Economics at Oxford University, delivers the 2008 Lionel Gelber Public Lecture on his award-winning book, ?The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It?.
May 11 2008: Margaret MacMillan, Part 2
Download Now · | Sun, 11 May 2008 21:00
Author and historian Margaret MacMillan delivers this year's Trinity College Larkin-Stuart Lecture. The topic of her 2-part lecture is "History: The Next Secular Religion?"
May 10 2008: Margaret MacMillan, Part 1
Download Now · | Sat, 10 May 2008 21:00
Author and historian Margaret MacMillan delivers this year's Trinity College Larkin-Stuart Lecture. The topic of her 2-part lecture is "History: The Next Secular Religion?"
Download Now · | Sat, 03 May 2008 21:00
Professor Neil Turok, Chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University presents his lecture "What Banged?" which examines the possible causes of The Big Bang, the initial singularity that created our universe.
March 5 2008: Walter Benn Michaels
Download Now · | Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:00
Walter Benn Michaels is the author of "The Trouble with Diversity". In both his book and this lecture he discusses the need to re-examine the liberal focus on issues of race and gender in order to begin to address the more critical issue of economic inequality.
April 19 2008: Roy MacSkimming
Download Now · | Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:00
Author Roy MacSkimming discusses his fictional take on the life of Canada's first Prime Minister John A. MacDonald.
Download Now · | Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:00
In his lecture entitled "Trudeau's World: The Making of an Internationalist", historian and author John English, discusses Trudeau's path to political prominence and influence, particularly in the domain of international affairs.
Download Now · | Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:00
Daniel Bell, Professor of Philosophy at Tsinghua University in Beijing presents a lecture on "China's New Confucianism".
