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Liam Kennedy on The...
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04:30:00 09/01/12

Liam Kennedy of the School of History at Queen's University (Belfast) delivers a lecture entitled, Cry Holocaust: The Great Irish Famine and the Jewish Holocaust.

Liam Kennedy on The Irish Famine and the Jewish Holocaust

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Liam Kennedy on The Irish Famine and the Jewish Holocaust

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Liam Kennedy of the School of History at Queen's University (Belfast) delivers a lecture entitled, Cry Holocaust: The Great Irish Famine and the Jewish Holocaust.

Vaclav Smil on Ener...
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04:30:00 08/25/12

Vaclav Smil of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Manitoba, discusses Energy Transitions in this lecture which was part of the Waterloo Global Sci...

Vaclav Smil on Energy Transitions

Added 08/25/12
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Vaclav Smil on Energy Transitions

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Vaclav Smil of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Manitoba, discusses Energy Transitions in this lecture which was part of the Waterloo Global Science Initiative (WGSI)Equinox Summit, hosted by the Perimeter Institute.

Jane Goodall on Chi...
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04:30:00 08/18/12

Primatologist Jane Goodall delivers a lecture on the similarities between chimpanzee and human emotions, preserving the environment, and hope.

Jane Goodall on Chimpanzee and Human Emotions

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Jane Goodall on Chimpanzee and Human Emotions

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Primatologist Jane Goodall delivers a lecture on the similarities between chimpanzee and human emotions, preserving the environment, and hope.

Nick Mount on Nabok...
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04:30:00 08/11/12

University of Toronto English Professor Nick Mount on Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita". The lecture was part of his Literature for Our Time series and was delivered at ...

Nick Mount on Nabokov's "Lolita"

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Nick Mount on Nabokov's "Lolita"

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University of Toronto English Professor Nick Mount on Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita". The lecture was part of his Literature for Our Time series and was delivered at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, on Feb. 12th, 2009.

Ian Buruma on Death...
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04:30:00 08/04/12

Writer and academic, Ian Buruma on Death of Metropolis: Why are Some Hostile to Cities?

Ian Buruma on Death of Metropolis

Added 08/04/12
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Ian Buruma on Death of Metropolis

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Writer and academic, Ian Buruma on Death of Metropolis: Why are Some Hostile to Cities?

Natalia Toro on Fun...
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04:30:00 07/28/12

Natalia Toro explains how complex collision data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being digested and examined and how it may set the course for the science ...

Natalia Toro on Fundamental Physics at the LHC

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Natalia Toro on Fundamental Physics at the LHC

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Natalia Toro explains how complex collision data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being digested and examined and how it may set the course for the science of the future. Her lecture was delivered at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo on September 18, 2011.

Seth Lloyd on Progr...
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04:30:00 07/21/12

Seth Llyod is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His talk, "Programming the Universe", is ...

Seth Lloyd on Programming the Universe

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Seth Lloyd on Programming the Universe

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Seth Llyod is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His talk, "Programming the Universe", is about the computational power of atoms, electrons, and elementary particles.

Adam Gopnik on Chri...
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04:30:00 07/14/12

Adam Gopnik, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, discusses W. H. Auden, William Emerson and Lewis Carol in a lecture entitled, The Morning Star is the Evenin...

Adam Gopnik on Christian Writers and Liberal Readers

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Adam Gopnik on Christian Writers and Liberal Readers

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Adam Gopnik, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, discusses W. H. Auden, William Emerson and Lewis Carol in a lecture entitled, The Morning Star is the Evening Star: Christian Writers and Liberal Readers.

Alain de Botton on ...
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04:30:00 07/07/12

Alain de Botton discusses his book Status Anxiety which examines our fears over what others think about us and about how we are judged to be either a success or fa...

Alain de Botton on Status Anxiety

Added 07/07/12
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Alain de Botton on Status Anxiety

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Alain de Botton discusses his book Status Anxiety which examines our fears over what others think about us and about how we are judged to be either a success or failure.

Robert Morrison on ...
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04:30:00 06/30/12

Robert Morrison, Associate Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College, on Islam, Science and the Importance of History. Morrison cites Islamic religious scholars fro...

Robert Morrison on Islam and Science

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Robert Morrison on Islam and Science

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Robert Morrison, Associate Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College, on Islam, Science and the Importance of History. Morrison cites Islamic religious scholars from historical times and from the present in order to show how Islam and science are compatable.

Paul Steinhardt on ...
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04:30:00 06/23/12

Physicist Paul Steinhardt discusses the creation of "Impossible crystals": quasi-crystals with five-fold symmetry previously believed impossible.

Paul Steinhardt on Impossible Crystals

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Paul Steinhardt on Impossible Crystals

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Physicist Paul Steinhardt discusses the creation of "Impossible crystals": quasi-crystals with five-fold symmetry previously believed impossible.

Andrew Coyne on Pos...
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04:30:00 06/16/12

National Post columnist, Andrew Coyne, presents a lecture entitled Post-Economic Politics in Canada. In Coyne's opinion, the state of the economy, contrary to popu...

Andrew Coyne on Post-Economic Politics in Canada

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Andrew Coyne on Post-Economic Politics in Canada

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National Post columnist, Andrew Coyne, presents a lecture entitled Post-Economic Politics in Canada. In Coyne's opinion, the state of the economy, contrary to popular belief, will not be the defining issue in our public policy debates. His lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada and was delivered at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto on May 14th, 2012.

Simon Winchester on...
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04:30:00 06/09/12

Simon Winchester discusses his book The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Simon Winchester on his book The Meaning of Everything

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Simon Winchester on his book The Meaning of Everything

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Simon Winchester discusses his book The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Dallaire and Lewis ...
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04:30:00 06/02/12

Following their PEN Canada discussion on child soldiers, Romeo Dallaire and Stephen Lewis field questions from the audience.

Dallaire and Lewis Q & A following talk on child soldiers

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Dallaire and Lewis Q & A following talk on child soldiers

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Following their PEN Canada discussion on child soldiers, Romeo Dallaire and Stephen Lewis field questions from the audience.

Marc D. Lewis Quest...
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04:30:00 06/02/12

Marc D. Lewis answers questions following his lecture based on his book Memoirs of an Addicted Brain.

Marc D. Lewis Questions and Answers

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Marc D. Lewis Questions and Answers

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Marc D. Lewis answers questions following his lecture based on his book Memoirs of an Addicted Brain.

Dr. Marc D. Lewis o...
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04:30:00 05/26/12

Dr. Marc D. Lewis discusses the story and the science behind his book Memoirs of an Addicted Brain. Lewis is a professor at the Behavioral Science Institute, part ...

Dr. Marc D. Lewis on Memoirs of an Addicted Brain

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Dr. Marc D. Lewis on Memoirs of an Addicted Brain

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Dr. Marc D. Lewis discusses the story and the science behind his book Memoirs of an Addicted Brain. Lewis is a professor at the Behavioral Science Institute, part of Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Lewis's book documents the years he spent addicted to drugs including morphine and heroin, and links his first-hand drug experiences to his current behavioral science research into the interaction between drugs and brain chemistry.

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Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram

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Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram
11/05/11

Leonard Susskind of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics discusses the indestructability of information and the nature of black holes in a lecture entitled The World As Hologram.