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Daniel Gottesman on...
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04:30:00 05/18/13

Daniel Gottesman of the Perimeter Institute discusses quantum computing and the cryptographic protocols that use quantum physics, and that one day will protect all...

Daniel Gottesman on Quantum Computing

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Daniel Gottesman on Quantum Computing

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Daniel Gottesman of the Perimeter Institute discusses quantum computing and the cryptographic protocols that use quantum physics, and that one day will protect all that which we would want to stay secret.

Robert Adams on Her...
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04:30:00 05/18/13

Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the 1964 novel Herzog by Saul Bellow.

Robert Adams on Herzog by Saul Bellow.

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Robert Adams on Herzog by Saul Bellow.

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Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the 1964 novel Herzog by Saul Bellow.

Jeffrey Rosenthal o...
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04:30:00 05/04/13

The author of Struck by Lightning - and the statistician who crunched the numbers to reveal that a statistically improbable number of lottery retailers were winnin...

Jeffrey Rosenthal on The Curious World of Probabilities

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Jeffrey Rosenthal on The Curious World of Probabilities

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The author of Struck by Lightning - and the statistician who crunched the numbers to reveal that a statistically improbable number of lottery retailers were winning major prizes in Ontario - Jeffrey Rosenthal guides us through the maze of numbers and percentages to show us to how calculate correct probabilities.

Simon Winchester on...
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04:30:00 04/27/13

Simon Winchester on his book A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906.

Simon Winchester on A Crack in the Edge of the World

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Simon Winchester on A Crack in the Edge of the World

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Simon Winchester on his book A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906.

Janna Levin on her ...
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04:30:00 04/20/13

Janna Levin on her book Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the story of two great mathematicians, Kurt Godel and Alan Turing. They were men who had the capacity to ...

Janna Levin on her book Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

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Janna Levin on her book Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

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Janna Levin on her book Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the story of two great mathematicians, Kurt Godel and Alan Turing. They were men who had the capacity to think about the most abstract of mathematical truths but had very limited abilities when it came to confronting the mundane aspects of life. Both committed suicide.

Robert Adams on the...
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04:30:00 04/20/13

Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the novel No Great Mischief by Alastair MacLeod.

Robert Adams on the novel No Great Mischief

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Robert Adams on the novel No Great Mischief

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Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the novel No Great Mischief by Alastair MacLeod.

Kevin Dutton on The...
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04:30:00 04/13/13

Kevin Dutton on his book The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success.

Kevin Dutton on The Wisdom of Psychopaths

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Kevin Dutton on The Wisdom of Psychopaths

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Kevin Dutton on his book The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success.

Jordan Peterson on ...
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04:30:00 04/06/13

University of Toronto Psychology Professor, Jordan Peterson, on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity. Dr. Peterson's lecture was the keynote address at the 20...

Jordan Peterson on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity

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Jordan Peterson on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity

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University of Toronto Psychology Professor, Jordan Peterson, on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity. Dr. Peterson's lecture was the keynote address at the 2012 Meaning Conference held in Toronto.

Nima Arkani-Hamed o...
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04:30:00 04/06/13

Nima Arkani-Hamed on the Large Hadron Collider and the Future of Fundamental Physics. Located on the Swiss-French border, the Large Hadron Collider is a circular t...

Nima Arkani-Hamed on the Large Hadron Collider

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Nima Arkani-Hamed on the Large Hadron Collider

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Nima Arkani-Hamed on the Large Hadron Collider and the Future of Fundamental Physics. Located on the Swiss-French border, the Large Hadron Collider is a circular tunnel 27 km in circumference. It will allow physicists to probe the constituent parts of the proton, looking for new forms of matter and insights into the formation of the universe.

Robert Adams on the...
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04:30:00 04/06/13

Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the novel The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.

Robert Adams on the novel The Corrections

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Robert Adams on the novel The Corrections

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Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the novel The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.

William Rees on Env...
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04:30:00 03/23/13

Ecological footprint is an idea originated by William Rees, an environmental economist from the University of British Columbia. If you need a primer in environment...

William Rees on Environmental Economics

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William Rees on Environmental Economics

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Ecological footprint is an idea originated by William Rees, an environmental economist from the University of British Columbia. If you need a primer in environmental economics, this lecture is for you.

Salmon Akhtar on Th...
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04:30:00 03/23/13

Salmon Akhtar on The Trauma of Geographical Dislocation, how immigration can affect a person's mental health.

Salmon Akhtar on The Trauma of Geographical Dislocation

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Salmon Akhtar on The Trauma of Geographical Dislocation

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Salmon Akhtar on The Trauma of Geographical Dislocation, how immigration can affect a person's mental health.

Steven Pinker on Th...
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04:30:00 03/16/13

Harvard University psychology professor, Steven Pinker, dicusses his book The Blank Slate.

Steven Pinker on The Blank Slate

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Steven Pinker on The Blank Slate

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Harvard University psychology professor, Steven Pinker, dicusses his book The Blank Slate.

Marc Abrahams, edit...
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04:30:00 03/09/13

Marc Abrahams, editor of The Annals of Improbably Research and one of the organizers of the annual Ig-Nobel Prize ceremonies at Harvard University, discusses the w...

Marc Abrahams, editor of The Annals of Improbably Research

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Marc Abrahams, editor of The Annals of Improbably Research

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Marc Abrahams, editor of The Annals of Improbably Research and one of the organizers of the annual Ig-Nobel Prize ceremonies at Harvard University, discusses the work of scientists and academics that, "first makes you laugh, and then makes you think".

Maude Barlow on Wat...
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04:30:00 03/02/13

Maude Barlow, National Chair of the citizens' advocacy organization The Council of Canadians, on Water: The Most Pressing Women's Issue of All.

Maude Barlow on Water: The Most Pressing Women's Issue

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Maude Barlow on Water: The Most Pressing Women's Issue

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Maude Barlow, National Chair of the citizens' advocacy organization The Council of Canadians, on Water: The Most Pressing Women's Issue of All.

Ken Cramer on Alfre...
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04:30:00 02/23/13

Ken Cramer - Psychology, University of Windsor -on Alfred Adler: The Most Famous Personality Theorist You Likely Never Heard Of

Ken Cramer on Alfred Adler

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Ken Cramer on Alfred Adler

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Ken Cramer - Psychology, University of Windsor -on Alfred Adler: The Most Famous Personality Theorist You Likely Never Heard Of

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Michael Shermer on why people believe weird things

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Michael Shermer on why people believe weird things
11/21/09

Editor of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer, delivers an entertaining lecture on his book Why People Believe Weird Things.