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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-bit
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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...
McMaster University Strategic Management professor Nick Bontis delivers his Best Lecturer competition lecture entitled Knowledge Worker Productivity.
University of Waterloo Architecture professor Robert Jan van Pelt delivers his Best Lecturer competition lecture entitled Architecture After Auschwitz.
University of Toronto (Scarborough) psychology professor Marc Fournier delivers his competition lecture entitled Dominance and Depression.
Brock University psychology professor John Mitterer delivers his competition lecture entitled Truth and Humility in Professional Practice.
Brock University professor Tim Conley delivers his competition lecture entitled Coordinating the Self in Contemporary Poetry.
Loyalist College professor John Schneeberger delivers his competition lecture entitled Creative Menu Design.
State building in Afghanistan is the focus of this lecture by Rory Stewart, a former Coalition Deputy Governor in southern Iraq. Stewart's book The Places In Between chronicles his
H. JAY MELOSHWhat killed the dinosaurs? And is humanity headed for a similar fate? These questions are addressed by H. Jay Melosh, a Professor of Theoretical Geophysics at the University...
Robert Adams gives his assessment of Brick Lane by Monica Ali. Short-listed for
the 2003 Man Booker Prize, the novel is a finely textured picture of Bangladeshi immigrants
in contemporary...
Robert Adams offers his opinions on Jonathan Frazen's critically acclaimed novel The Corrections. It tells the story of an American family's disintegration and metamorphosis in modern...
Robert Adams discusses J.M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel, Disgrace.
The irrepressible Robert Adams presents an enthralling review of Khaled Hosseini's, The Kite Runner. The Kite Runner is the unforgettable, beautifully told story of a friendship between...
Award-winning architect, Bruce Kuwabara, discusses emerging models of urbanization and sustainability that are transforming Toronto and other major Canadian cities.
Psychotherapist and artist, Ariel Garten, explores the neuroscience of conflict.
University of Toronto (Scarborough) psychology professor Gerald Cupchik delivers his competition lecture entitled Two Faces of Emotion.
Author and scholar, Thomas Homer-Dixon, explores the convergence of natural, social, and economic stresses that could lead to the breakdown of world economies and political systems
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...
Kay Redfield Jamison of Johns Hopkins University gives a lecture about suicide drawing on the research from her book, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide.
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...
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".
"No Educator Left Behind" is the title of this lecture by Mark Federman. In it Federman contends that, as a result of the changes the internet has brought to the way students communicate...
Benjamin Barber's books include Strong Democracy, Jihad vs. McWorld and Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole. Speaking at the Ontario...
"Time and Einstein in the 21st Century: The Coolest Stuff in the Universe" is the title of this exceptionally entertaining lecture. Phillips, who works with the National Institute of...
University of Toronto philosophy professor and author, Mark Kingwell, and journalist Malcolm Gladwell square off in a lively debate about social change and how best to achieve it.
University of Windsor psychology professor Ken Cramer delivers his competition lecture entitled Alfred Adler: The Most Famous Personality Theorist You Likely Never Heard Of.
University of Windsor education professor Finney Cherian delivers his competition lecture entitled Unbinding Baby Elephants.
Political science professor Ron Deibert looks at the issue of internet censorship and surveillance around the world.
Best-selling author, Richard Florida, describes how the creative class is impacting cities, business and society at large.
Clifford Will delivers a lecture entitled "Was Einstein Right? Can Einstein?s Theories Survive Today?s Scientific Scrutiny?"
Zach Hall - Dean of Research at the School of Medicine of University of Southern California discusses, Neuroethics: A Challenge for a New Age.
Lee Smolin of Perimeter Institute delivers his lecture, Why Does Science Work?
Wendy Steiner, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania presents a lecture based on her book The Trouble with Beauty.
Leanne Simpson of Athabasca University's Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and Research delivers a lecture entitled, "Can Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge Survive in the Modern
Ronald Wright, the author of What Is America?: A Short History of the New World Order, examines the dichotomy between "America's ideals and the realities". Wright discusses how such...
University of Toronto Professor of Psychology Jordan Peterson discusses the nature of evil and its distinction from tragedy in this lecture presented at the 2008 Conference on Personal...
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...
In light of the Canadian government's recent apology, and as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission commences its work, Ovide Mercredi, chief of the Misipawistic Cree nation and former...
Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., delivers this year's Donner Canadian Foundation lecture drawing upon his recently released book The Great...
Drawing on his experience with drug addicted patients from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Dr. Gabor Mate discusses how the medical and legal systems are failing in the so called "war...
Professor Richard C. Lewontin of Harvard University delivers a lecture on the topic of The Co-evolution of Organisms and the Environment.
Alberto Manguel on the duality of Pablo Picasso's artistic brilliance and personal evil.
Jefferson Medical College professor Salman Akhtar discusses "The Trauma of Geophysical Dislocation", proposing that psychoanalysts need to pay special attention to their immigrant patients....
Architect and author, Charles Jencks, presents a lecture based on his recent book "Critical Modernism: Where is Post-Modernism Going?"
University of Ontario Institute of Technology professor Christopher diCarlo (Health Sciences and Criminology) delivers his competition lecture entitled The Relations of Natural Sys
An hour-long version of the special series, "Israel-Palestine: 60 Years On", which originally aired on The Agenda with Steve Paikin.
Microcredit expert and consultant, Eric Thurman, discusses the ideas behind his book, "A Billion Bootstraps".
Harvard psychology professor, Stephen Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought examines how language reveals the way we think by exposing the physics built into our nouns, the temporal...
