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Thomas Homer-Dixon ...
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04:30:00 12/24/11

Thomas Homer-Dixon answers questions following his lecture entitled Civilization Far From Equilibrium: Energy, Complexity and Human Survival.

Thomas Homer-Dixon Questions and Answers

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Thomas Homer-Dixon Questions and Answers

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Thomas Homer-Dixon answers questions following his lecture entitled Civilization Far From Equilibrium: Energy, Complexity and Human Survival.

Palestine and the A...
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04:30:00 12/24/11

Bonus video - Moderator Mark Kingwell and panelists Michael Ignatieff and Ramin Jahanbegloo discuss Palestine and The Arab Spring as viewed through the writings of...

Palestine and the Arab Spring - Bonus video

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Palestine and the Arab Spring - Bonus video

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Bonus video - Moderator Mark Kingwell and panelists Michael Ignatieff and Ramin Jahanbegloo discuss Palestine and The Arab Spring as viewed through the writings of political philosopher Isaiah Berlin

Keith Devlin on Leo...
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04:30:00 12/17/11

Keith Devlin, Executive Director of the H-STAR Institute at Stanford University, discusses Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years

Keith Devlin on Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple

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Keith Devlin on Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple

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Keith Devlin, Executive Director of the H-STAR Institute at Stanford University, discusses Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years

John Ibbitson on th...
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04:30:00 12/10/11

John Ibbitson, Ottawa bureau chief for The Globe and Mail, delivers a lecture on The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus and the Rise of Ontario as a Pacific Prov...

John Ibbitson on the Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus

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John Ibbitson on the Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus

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John Ibbitson, Ottawa bureau chief for The Globe and Mail, delivers a lecture on The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus and the Rise of Ontario as a Pacific Province. This lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.

Liberty and the Ara...
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04:30:00 12/03/11

Moderator Mark Kingwell and panelists Michael Ignatieff and Ramin Jahanbegloo discuss the writings of political philosopher Isaiah Berlin as they pertain to Libert...

Liberty and the Arab Spring: Exploring Isaiah Berlin's Ideas

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Liberty and the Arab Spring: Exploring Isaiah Berlin's Ideas

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Moderator Mark Kingwell and panelists Michael Ignatieff and Ramin Jahanbegloo discuss the writings of political philosopher Isaiah Berlin as they pertain to Liberty and The Arab Spring

Armine Yalnizyan an...
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04:30:00 12/03/11

Armine Yalnizyan, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and William Watson, McGill economics professor, debate Inequality: A Threat to D...

Armine Yalnizyan and William Watson on economic disparity

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Armine Yalnizyan and William Watson on economic disparity

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Armine Yalnizyan, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and William Watson, McGill economics professor, debate Inequality: A Threat to Democracy? This is the 2011 Keith Davey Forum on Public Affairs, moderated by political scientist Jeffrey Kopstein.

Gaspar Tamas on The...
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04:30:00 11/26/11

Hungarian philosopher, Gaspar Tamas,on The Failure of Liberal Democracy in Eastern Europe and Everywhere Else. His lecture was delivered at the Munk School of Glob...

Gaspar Tamas on The Failure of Liberal Democracy

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Gaspar Tamas on The Failure of Liberal Democracy

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Hungarian philosopher, Gaspar Tamas,on The Failure of Liberal Democracy in Eastern Europe and Everywhere Else. His lecture was delivered at the Munk School of Global Affairs on September 20, 2011. Tamas is a prolific writer of essays with a wide-ranging and distinguished career in academics and government. He was also a leading figure in the East European dissident movements.

Hod Lipson on Progr...
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04:30:00 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

Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Things to Come

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Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Things to Come

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

Alex Himelfarb on t...
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04:30:00 11/12/11

How Did Taxes Become a Bad Word? The Former Clerk of the Privy Council, Alex Himelfarb, discusses why we should be investing more, not less, in our future. While t...

Alex Himelfarb on the consequences of tax cuts

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Alex Himelfarb on the consequences of tax cuts

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How Did Taxes Become a Bad Word? The Former Clerk of the Privy Council, Alex Himelfarb, discusses why we should be investing more, not less, in our future. While today's political leaders exalt the benefits of increased tax-cutting, Himelfarb argues that further tax cuts will come with serious consequences, including cuts to services and deeper inequality. According to Himelfarb, what we need is nothing less than a re-think about what our future is worth. His lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.

Leonard Susskind on...
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04:30:00 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 entitl...

Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram

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Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram

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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.

Noam Chomsky on the...
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04:30:00 10/29/11

Academic, author and political activist, Noam Chomsky, on the State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival. Chomsky's lecture was delivered at the Har...

Noam Chomsky on the State-Corporate Complex

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Noam Chomsky on the State-Corporate Complex

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Academic, author and political activist, Noam Chomsky, on the State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival. Chomsky's lecture was delivered at the Hart House Great Hall at the University of Toronto on April 7, 2011.

Thomas Homer-Dixon ...
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04:30:00 10/22/11

Thomas Homer-Dixon presents his lecture Civilization Far From Equilibrium: Energy, Complexity and Human Survival at the Equinox Summit - Energy 2030.

Thomas Homer-Dixon on Civilization Far From Equilibrium

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Thomas Homer-Dixon on Civilization Far From Equilibrium

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Thomas Homer-Dixon presents his lecture Civilization Far From Equilibrium: Energy, Complexity and Human Survival at the Equinox Summit - Energy 2030.

John Gray on The Im...
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04:30:00 10/15/11

Philosopher and author, John Gray, on The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death. In the late nineteenth century and as a consequ...

John Gray on The Immortalization Commission

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John Gray on The Immortalization Commission

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Philosopher and author, John Gray, on The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death. In the late nineteenth century and as a consequence of Darwinism, many thinkers turned to science to solve the riddle of death. Gray explores humankind's dangerous striving toward a scientific version of immortality.

Freeman Dyson on Li...
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04:30:00 10/08/11

Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University delivers a lecture entitled, Living Through Four Revolutions. Dyson discusses Space Technology, Nuclear E...

Freeman Dyson on Living Through Four Revolutions

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Freeman Dyson on Living Through Four Revolutions

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Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University delivers a lecture entitled, Living Through Four Revolutions. Dyson discusses Space Technology, Nuclear Energy, the Genome and the Computer Revolution.

Jeff Melanson on Th...
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04:30:00 10/01/11

Jeff Melanson on The Evolving Role of the Arts in Canada. This lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada and was recorded at the Gar...

Jeff Melanson on The Evolving Role of the Arts in Canada

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Jeff Melanson on The Evolving Role of the Arts in Canada

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Jeff Melanson on The Evolving Role of the Arts in Canada. This lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada and was recorded at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto on May 24, 2011.

David Keith on Tech...
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04:30:00 09/24/11

David Keith, speaking at the Equinox Summit, discusses Technology, Energy and Nature - Human Values and Open Choices. Professor Keith holds the Canada Research Cha...

David Keith on Technology, Energy and Nature

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David Keith on Technology, Energy and Nature

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David Keith, speaking at the Equinox Summit, discusses Technology, Energy and Nature - Human Values and Open Choices. Professor Keith holds the Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment.

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Adam Gopnik on Remembering Winter

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Adam Gopnik on Remembering Winter
02/25/12

Bestselling author, essayist and New Yorker contributor, Adam Gopnik, delivers the fifth installment of the 2011 CBC Massey Lectures, Winter: Five Windows on the Season. In this lecture, entitled Remembering Winter, Gopnik offers a delightful meditation and reflection on winter, drawing from his memories of growing up in Montreal as well as from the works of other artists, writers and thinkers who have shaped our ideas about the most memorable of seasons.