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Sara Seager on Exop...
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04:30:00 04/09/11

Big Ideas presents Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discussing Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds

Sara Seager on Exoplanets the Search for Habitable Worlds

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Sara Seager on Exoplanets the Search for Habitable Worlds

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Big Ideas presents Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discussing Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds

Michael Adams on Th...
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04:30:00 04/02/11

Environics co-founder, leading pollster, and author, Michael Adams, delivers a lecture on the Boomer Impact, drawing on the insights and research in his latest boo...

Michael Adams on The Boomer Impact

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Michael Adams on The Boomer Impact

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Environics co-founder, leading pollster, and author, Michael Adams, delivers a lecture on the Boomer Impact, drawing on the insights and research in his latest book Stayin' Alive: How Canadian Boomers Will Work, Play and Find Meaning in the Second Half of Their Adult Lives. This lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.

Hod Lipson on The R...
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04:30:00 03/26/11

Big Ideas presents Hod Lipson of Cornell University exploring his work in such areas as evolutionary robotics and programmable self-assembly, Lipson delivers a lec...

Hod Lipson on The Robotic Scientist:Mining Experimental Data

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Hod Lipson on The Robotic Scientist:Mining Experimental Data

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Big Ideas presents Hod Lipson of Cornell University exploring his work in such areas as evolutionary robotics and programmable self-assembly, Lipson delivers a lecture entitled The Robotic Scientist: Mining Experimental Data for Scientific Laws, from Cognitive Robots to Computational Biology.

Ian Hacking on The ...
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04:30:00 03/19/11

Winner of the prestigious Holberg International Memorial Prize, philosopher Ian Hacking presents a lecture entitled The Mathematical Animal.

Ian Hacking on The Mathematical Animal

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Ian Hacking on The Mathematical Animal

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Winner of the prestigious Holberg International Memorial Prize, philosopher Ian Hacking presents a lecture entitled The Mathematical Animal.

Nick Mount on It's ...
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04:30:00 03/12/11

Big Ideas presents University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, on the graphic novel It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth.

Nick Mount on It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken

Added 03/12/11
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Nick Mount on It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken

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Big Ideas presents University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, on the graphic novel It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth.

Short documentary o...
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04:30:00 03/12/11

Big Ideas presents a short documentary on Toronto graphic novelist, Seth. Seth is the creator of Palookaville and It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken.

Short documentary on Toronto graphic novelist, Seth.

Added 03/12/11
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Short documentary on Toronto graphic novelist, Seth.

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Big Ideas presents a short documentary on Toronto graphic novelist, Seth. Seth is the creator of Palookaville and It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken.

David Sloan Wilson ...
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04:30:00 03/05/11

Professor David Sloan Wilson, author of Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society, delivers the annual Wiegand Memorial Foundation lecture...

David Sloan Wilson on Religion and Other Meaning Systems

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David Sloan Wilson on Religion and Other Meaning Systems

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Professor David Sloan Wilson, author of Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society, delivers the annual Wiegand Memorial Foundation lecture entitled Religion and Other Meaning Systems. He examines how the experience of the religious believer differs from the secular thinker and argues that both can be understood in terms their particular meaning systems.

Robert Adams on The...
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04:30:00 02/26/11

Big Ideas presents author and book reviewer Robert Adams as he discusses the novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.

Robert Adams on The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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Robert Adams on The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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Big Ideas presents author and book reviewer Robert Adams as he discusses the novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.

Richard Wilkinson o...
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04:30:00 02/19/11

One of Britain's leading social epidemiologists, Richard Wilkinson, looks at what it means to live in a new age of inequality. Wilkinson is the co-author of the gr...

Richard Wilkinson on The Age of Unequals

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Richard Wilkinson on The Age of Unequals

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One of Britain's leading social epidemiologists, Richard Wilkinson, looks at what it means to live in a new age of inequality. Wilkinson is the co-author of the groundbreaking, international bestseller The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone.

Seth Lloyd on Quant...
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04:30:00 02/12/11

Big Ideas presents Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology on Quantum Life, how organisms have evolved to make use of quantum effects.

Seth Lloyd on Quantum Life

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Seth Lloyd on Quantum Life

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Big Ideas presents Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology on Quantum Life, how organisms have evolved to make use of quantum effects.

Nobel Laureate Dere...
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04:30:00 02/05/11

English professor, Christian Campbell, interviews Caribbean poet and playwright, Derek Walcott, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. Walcott discusses ...

Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott on his life and work

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Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott on his life and work

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English professor, Christian Campbell, interviews Caribbean poet and playwright, Derek Walcott, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. Walcott discusses issues of identity, culture, and language in this illuminating conversation, filmed at Hart House Theatre on November 23, 2010.

PZ Myers on Science...
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04:30:00 01/29/11

Biology professor and well-known blogger, PZ Myers, on Science and Atheism: Natural Allies. This lecture was delivered at the Humanist Canada/Atheist Alliance Inte...

PZ Myers on Science and Atheism: Natural Allies

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PZ Myers on Science and Atheism: Natural Allies

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Biology professor and well-known blogger, PZ Myers, on Science and Atheism: Natural Allies. This lecture was delivered at the Humanist Canada/Atheist Alliance International 2010 Convention in Montreal.

Daniel C. Dennett o...
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04:30:00 01/29/11

Daniel C. Dennett, Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, on What Should Replace Religions?

Daniel C. Dennett on What Should Replace Religions?

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Daniel C. Dennett on What Should Replace Religions?

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Daniel C. Dennett, Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, on What Should Replace Religions?

Brian Dalton on Mr....
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04:30:00 01/29/11

Big Ideas presents Brian Dalton on his Mr. Deity podcasts, the amorality of Christianity and the morality of atheism

Brian Dalton on Mr. Deity podcasts & the morality of atheism

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Brian Dalton on Mr. Deity podcasts & the morality of atheism

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Big Ideas presents Brian Dalton on his Mr. Deity podcasts, the amorality of Christianity and the morality of atheism

Chris Hedges on Dea...
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04:30:00 01/22/11

Journalist and author Chris Hedges delivers a lecture based on his book Death of the Liberal Class. Hedges argues that there are five pillars of the liberal establ...

Chris Hedges on Death of the Liberal Class

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Chris Hedges on Death of the Liberal Class

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Journalist and author Chris Hedges delivers a lecture based on his book Death of the Liberal Class. Hedges argues that there are five pillars of the liberal establishment - the press, liberal religious institutions, labor unions, universities and the Democratic Party - but that these institutions have failed the constituents they purport to represent.

Jordan Peterson on ...
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04:30:00 01/15/11

University of Toronto professor and clinical psychologist, Jordan Peterson, delivers the 2010 Hancock Lecture entitled The Necessity of Virtue. He discusses virtue...

Jordan Peterson on The Necessity of Virtue

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Jordan Peterson on The Necessity of Virtue

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University of Toronto professor and clinical psychologist, Jordan Peterson, delivers the 2010 Hancock Lecture entitled The Necessity of Virtue. He discusses virtue from a contemporary perspective that both encompasses and extends beyond moral and religious contexts. Through compelling stories and research, Dr. Peterson illustrates the necessity of virtue both for the individual and for society at large.

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Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Thi...

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Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Things to Come
11/19/11

Hod Lipson of Cornell University discusses the future of 3-D printing in his lecture entitled, Programmable Matter: The Shape of Things to Come