en-us Tue, 06 May 2008 21:40:28 -0400 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ HEALING THROUGH MINDFULNESS Mary Hynes, the host of Tapestry on CBC Radio One in conversation with Jon Kabat-Zinn, the man who brought mindfulness meditation to hospitals. Kabat-Zinn introduces people to a profoundly spiritual view of life. Just don’t tell him that! Fri, 16 May 2008 02:57:12 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060626_646.mp3 82980 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Organic food has jumped from the margins to the mainstream and is now the fastest growing food category on supermarket shelves. What started as a social movement has become an industry with companies like General Mills, ConAgra and Kraft as major players. For some, this represents a victory for organics. Others worry that success will compromise the ideals of the movement. Jill Eisen looks at the past, present and future of organics. Fri, 16 May 2008 02:55:09 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060918_909.mp3 197904 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Organic food has jumped from the margins to the mainstream and is now the fastest growing food category on supermarket shelves. What started as a social movement has become an industry with companies like General Mills, ConAgra and Kraft as major players. For some, this represents a victory for organics. Others worry that success will compromise the ideals of the movement. Jill Eisen looks at the past, present and future of organics. Fri, 16 May 2008 02:55:04 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060911_908.mp3 186121 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Organic food has jumped from the margins to the mainstream and is now the fastest growing food category on supermarket shelves. What started as a social movement has become an industry with companies like General Mills, ConAgra and Kraft as major players. For some, this represents a victory for organics. Others worry that success will compromise the ideals of the movement. Jill Eisen looks at the past, present and future of organics. Fri, 16 May 2008 02:55:02 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060904_907.mp3 176870 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ It was a modern axiom that philosophy and religion should be strangers, the one relying on reason the other on revelation. But, as the limits of both reason and revelation have become clearer, a new conversation has begun, and Irish philosopher Richard Kearney has been one of its leaders. In a three-part conversation with David Cayley, he talks about his philosophy of the imagination and his book, The God Who May Be. Fri, 16 May 2008 02:53:36 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20061016_1095.mp3 244464 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ It was a modern axiom that philosophy and religion should be strangers, the one relying on reason the other on revelation. But, as the limits of both reason and revelation have become clearer, a new conversation has begun, and Irish philosopher Richard Kearney has been one of its leaders. In a three-part conversation with David Cayley, he talks about his philosophy of the imagination and his book, The God Who May Be. Fri, 16 May 2008 02:53:28 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20061023_1096.mp3 255472 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ It was a modern axiom that philosophy and religion should be strangers, the one relying on reason the other on revelation. But, as the limits of both reason and revelation have become clearer, a new conversation has begun, and Irish philosopher Richard Kearney has been one of its leaders. In a three-part conversation with David Cayley, he talks about his philosophy of the imagination and his book, The God Who May Be. Fri, 16 May 2008 02:52:50 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20061030_1097.mp3 265057 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Human beings are unable to grasp the reality that exists beyond our perceptions. Evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins explains why in the Beatty Memorial Lecture recorded at McGill University. Richard Dawkins is the also the author of a number of controversial books, The Selfish Gene, and most recently The God Delusion. Fri, 16 May 2008 02:49:08 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20070108_1466.mp3 429194 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ David Suzuki and Stephen Lewis in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers and Company, on the politics of the environment and Canadian values. A personal, passionate and wide-ranging evening with two of Canada's foremost activists. Fri, 16 May 2008 02:45:58 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20070326_1887.mp3 552638 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Lawrence Wright spent five years researching the history of the events leading to the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers in New York City. His book about the subject, The Looming Tower won the 2007 Lionel Gelber Prize, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. In this public lecture, Wright analyses the forces that created Al-Qaeda, and adds to our understanding of what we must do to fight them. Fri, 16 May 2008 02:41:45 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20070702_2517.mp3 704551 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ To acknowledge the recent release of a Mary Pratt commemorative stamp from Canada Post, IDEAS host Paul Kennedy talks with the artist about her deliciously luminescent art. Fri, 16 May 2008 02:40:54 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20070716_2589.mp3 726344 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Some have called it the natural fall-out of a hyper-capitalist society http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Some have called it the natural fall-out of a hyper-capitalist society; billionaires who’ve made more money from media and technology enterprises than anyone in human history. There’s Bill Gates, the creator of Microsoft; Jeff Skoll, the founder of e-Bay; and, of course, Warren Buffet, who has been dubbed the “Oracle of Omaha.” Now, they’ve reinvented themselves as philanthropists, giving away billions to help the poor. Freelance broadcaster Richard Phinney asks: can they re-make the world? Fri, 16 May 2008 02:40:31 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20070723_2600.mp3 726345 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition on CBC Radio, in conversation with Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and Father Richard John Neuhuas, author of Catholic Matters. Michael explores with these radically different thinkers the role of religion in the public arena. Fri, 16 May 2008 02:39:03 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20070910_3193.mp3 788347 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Feminist, sexologist, psychologist, Leonore Tiefer has spent most of her life thinking and writing about sex http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ In this monthly feature on IDEAS, arts journalist and host of Writers & Company Eleanor Wachtel takes an in-depth look at ideas in the arts. In this episode, she talks to architect Moshe Safdie about his buildings http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ The prolific inventor, futurist and entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil, anticipates an “Age of Singularity,” when we'll be able to achieve a kind of immortality by downloading all of our essentially human qualities into a computer hard-drive. A feature interview by IDEAS host Paul Kennedy. Fri, 16 May 2008 02:34:53 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20080505_5658.mp3 1167188 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Acclaimed British-Pakistani writer, film-maker and political activist Tariq Ali discusses the inter-relationship between media and global politics today in a talk given at McGill University in the fall of 2007. Thu, 15 May 2008 01:14:07 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20080128_4451.mp3 1010764 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ From the Amazon jungles to downtown Canada, ideas about Ayahuasca revive a decades-old argument about the uses and abuses, the ecstasies and the efficacies of mind-altering plants. Ayahuasca has been part of shamanic tradition for centuries. Broadcasters Thomas McKinnon and Leonard Cler-Cunningham travel the old trails, attend the ceremonies, and debate the religious, economic and political questions surrounding the divine vegetal. Thu, 15 May 2008 01:13:38 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20080114_4340.mp3 984551 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ From the Amazon jungles to downtown Canada, ideas about Ayahuasca revive a decades-old argument about the uses and abuses, the ecstasies and the efficacies of mind-altering plants. Ayahuasca has been part of shamanic tradition for centuries. Broadcasters Thomas McKinnon and Leonard Cler-Cunningham travel the old trails, attend the ceremonies, and debate the religious, economic and political questions surrounding the divine vegetal. Thu, 15 May 2008 01:13:32 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20080107_4335.mp3 973920 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Energy is not just a fuel. It’s an entire system that links our civilization together, says David Sanbourn Scott, a hydrogen energy expert. Energy is like a currency: it can be used like money for different purposes. Throughout history, new energy sources and systems have replaced old ones. Understanding how this works is essential to combating catastrophic climate change. Thu, 15 May 2008 01:12:13 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20071217_4165.mp3 945766 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Energy is not just a fuel. It’s an entire system that links our civilization together, says David Sanborn Scott, a hydrogen energy expert. Energy is like a currency: it can be used like money for different purposes. Throughout history, new energy sources and systems have replaced old ones. Understanding how this works is essential to combating catastrophic climate change. Thu, 15 May 2008 01:12:11 -0400 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20071210_4089.mp3 934987