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Lisa Harvey-Smith o...
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04:30:00 05/19/12

Lisa Harvey-Smith of CSIRO discusses the mega-telescope known as the Square Kilometre Array. CSIRO, the Australian Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Org...

Lisa Harvey-Smith on the SKA mega-telescope

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Lisa Harvey-Smith on the SKA mega-telescope

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Lisa Harvey-Smith of CSIRO discusses the mega-telescope known as the Square Kilometre Array. CSIRO, the Australian Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, is part of the continent-spanning next-generation radio telescope project which is due to be completed in 2019.

Allen J. Frances on...
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04:30:00 05/12/12

Psychiatrist and author, Allen J. Frances, believes that mental illnesses are being over-diagnosed. In his lecture, Diagnostic Inflation: Does Everyone Have a Ment...

Allen J. Frances on The Overdiagnosis of Mental Illness

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Allen J. Frances on The Overdiagnosis of Mental Illness

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Psychiatrist and author, Allen J. Frances, believes that mental illnesses are being over-diagnosed. In his lecture, Diagnostic Inflation: Does Everyone Have a Mental Illness?, Dr. Frances outlines why he thinks the DSM-V will lead to millions of people being mislabeled with mental disorders. His lecture was part of Mental Health Matters, an initiative of TVO in association with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Dr. Iain McGilchris...
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04:30:00 05/05/12

Renowned British psychiatrist and author, Iain McGilchrist, delivers a lecture entitled Our Mind at War. Drawing from research in his latest book, The Master and h...

Dr. Iain McGilchrist on The Divided Brain

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Dr. Iain McGilchrist on The Divided Brain

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Renowned British psychiatrist and author, Iain McGilchrist, delivers a lecture entitled Our Mind at War. Drawing from research in his latest book, The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, Dr. McGilchrist explains how an overreliance on ways of looking at the world characteristic of the left hemisphere may be partially responsible for the increase in mental illnesses globally, including depression. His lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.

Meloy and Carveth o...
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17:00:00 04/30/12

J. Reid Meloy, a clinical professor of psychology at the University of California discusses his research into the mind of the psychopath, based on his years of exp...

Meloy and Carveth on The Mind of the Psychopath

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Meloy and Carveth on The Mind of the Psychopath

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J. Reid Meloy, a clinical professor of psychology at the University of California discusses his research into the mind of the psychopath, based on his years of experience working with incarcerated killers and with the families and victims of psychopaths. Donald Carveth, professor of sociology and social and political thought at York University, critiques Meloy's paper.

David Healy on Psyc...
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17:00:00 04/30/12

Psychiatrist David Healy with his lecture Gripped by a Python: How Pharmaceutical Companies Control the Medical Marketplace. The lecture was delivered at Bethune C...

David Healy on Psychopharmacology

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David Healy on Psychopharmacology

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Psychiatrist David Healy with his lecture Gripped by a Python: How Pharmaceutical Companies Control the Medical Marketplace. The lecture was delivered at Bethune College in Toronto on February 27, 2003.

Dr. Norman Doidge o...
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17:00:00 04/30/12

Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and best-selling author, Dr. Norman Doidge, on his book, The Brain that Changes Itself, an examination of the most important breakthro...

Dr. Norman Doidge on Neuroplasticity

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Dr. Norman Doidge on Neuroplasticity

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Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and best-selling author, Dr. Norman Doidge, on his book, The Brain that Changes Itself, an examination of the most important breakthrough in neuroscience: the discovery of neuroplasticity. His lecture was delivered at the University of Toronto on March 29th, 2008.

Graeme Gibson on Ou...
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04:30:00 04/28/12

Graeme Gibson, author of The Bedside Book of Beasts, and recipient of the Order of Canada, explores the ways we humans relate emotionally, imaginatively, and physi...

Graeme Gibson on Our Human Connection to Nature

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Graeme Gibson on Our Human Connection to Nature

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Graeme Gibson, author of The Bedside Book of Beasts, and recipient of the Order of Canada, explores the ways we humans relate emotionally, imaginatively, and physically to the natural world. His lecture entitled Echoes of a Working Eden, also addresses the damage done to us by our abandonment of Nature.

Francis Broun on Ar...
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04:30:00 04/21/12

Art historian Francis Broun discusses the work of the 17th century painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Broun explores why Artemisia, who was widely respected in her own...

Francis Broun on Artemisia

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Francis Broun on Artemisia

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Art historian Francis Broun discusses the work of the 17th century painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Broun explores why Artemisia, who was widely respected in her own time, was forgotten and why she has recently been returned to her rightful place as a groundbreaking painter.

Ian Hacking on The ...
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04:30:00 04/14/12

Philosopher Ian Hacking delivers the 2011 Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture entitled Who Are You? The Biosocial Being. The lecture took place at York University on Nove...

Ian Hacking on The Biosocial Being

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Ian Hacking on The Biosocial Being

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Philosopher Ian Hacking delivers the 2011 Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture entitled Who Are You? The Biosocial Being. The lecture took place at York University on November 14, 2011.

Romeo Dallaire and ...
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04:30:00 04/07/12

Drawing on their vast experiences and first-hand knowledge, distinguished humanitarians Senator Romeo Dallaire and Stephen Lewis, enter into a dialogue about the i...

Romeo Dallaire and Stephen Lewis on Child Soldiers

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Romeo Dallaire and Stephen Lewis on Child Soldiers

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Drawing on their vast experiences and first-hand knowledge, distinguished humanitarians Senator Romeo Dallaire and Stephen Lewis, enter into a dialogue about the issues that they have committed their lives to: the eradication of the use of child soldiers and stopping the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. Their discussion, moderated by journalist Anna Maria Tremonti, was organized by PEN Canada.

Daniel Kahneman on ...
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04:30:00 03/31/12

Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, on The Machinery of the Mind. Kahneman is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton Univ...

Daniel Kahneman on The Machinery of the Mind

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Daniel Kahneman on The Machinery of the Mind

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Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, on The Machinery of the Mind. Kahneman is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Darin Barney on Cit...
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15:00:00 03/28/12

McGill University professor, Darin Barney, delivers the 2007 Hart House Lecture entitled One Nation Under Google. His lecture looks at many important issues, inclu...

Darin Barney on Citizenship in the Technological Republic

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Darin Barney on Citizenship in the Technological Republic

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McGill University professor, Darin Barney, delivers the 2007 Hart House Lecture entitled One Nation Under Google. His lecture looks at many important issues, including how we are used by technology and how technology challenges citizenship. Barney is the Canada Research Chair in Technology & Citizenship.

George Dyson on the...
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04:30:00 03/24/12

Science historian and author (Darwin Among the Machines) George Dyson on the Origins of the Digital Universe. The talk focuses on the work done at The Institute fo...

George Dyson on the Origins of the Digital Universe

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George Dyson on the Origins of the Digital Universe

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Science historian and author (Darwin Among the Machines) George Dyson on the Origins of the Digital Universe. The talk focuses on the work done at The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey by such renowned scientists as John von Neumann and Kurt Godel.

Alberto Manguel on ...
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04:30:00 03/22/12

Alberto Manguel delivers the final lecture in the 2007 Massey Lecture series, entitled The Screen of Hal.

Alberto Manguel on The Screen of Hal

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Alberto Manguel on The Screen of Hal

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Alberto Manguel delivers the final lecture in the 2007 Massey Lecture series, entitled The Screen of Hal.

John Duffy on the e...
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04:30:00 03/17/12

John Duffy, advisor to former Prime Minister Paul Martin and founder of StrategyCorp, tackles the subject of The Emerging Politics of Technology in a lecture produ...

John Duffy on the emerging politics of technology

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John Duffy on the emerging politics of technology

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John Duffy, advisor to former Prime Minister Paul Martin and founder of StrategyCorp, tackles the subject of The Emerging Politics of Technology in a lecture produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada. Duffy has spent years pondering the role of technology in our thinking about policy and politics. And he believes that the politics of technology is at the forefront of Canada's public policy debates. But is technology beyond political and democratic control? And if not, how can we ensure that the cost and benefit of new technological developments do not deepen the already growing inequalities in our society?

Sean Martindale on ...
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04:30:00 03/10/12

Toronto-based public-space artist, Sean Martindale on Playful Interventions: Engaging Our Urban Environments.

Sean Martindale on Playful Interventions: Urban Environments

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Sean Martindale on Playful Interventions: Urban Environments

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Toronto-based public-space artist, Sean Martindale on Playful Interventions: Engaging Our Urban Environments.

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Ray Jayawardhana on Alien Planets

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Ray Jayawardhana on Alien Planets
01/28/12

Author and astronomer Ray Jayawardhana discusses Alien Planets and his latest book Strange New Worlds. The lecture focuses on techniques for detecting planets orbiting distant stars.