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Kwame McKenzie on I...
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04:30:00 02/23/13

Kwame McKenzie on Immigration Sickness. What psychological and social attributes help us predict who will be a good at being an immigrant?

Kwame McKenzie on Immigration Sickness

Added 02/23/13
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Kwame McKenzie on Immigration Sickness

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Kwame McKenzie on Immigration Sickness. What psychological and social attributes help us predict who will be a good at being an immigrant?

Nick Mount on T.S. ...
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04:30:00 02/16/13

University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, explores T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

Nick Mount on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

Added 02/16/13
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Nick Mount on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

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University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, explores T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

Susannah Varmuza on...
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04:30:00 02/09/13

University of Toronto Zoology researcher, Susannah Varmuza, discusses the evolving field of Epigenetics and what research into such things as mouse coat colour is ...

Susannah Varmuza on the evolving field of Epigenetics

Added 02/09/13
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Susannah Varmuza on the evolving field of Epigenetics

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University of Toronto Zoology researcher, Susannah Varmuza, discusses the evolving field of Epigenetics and what research into such things as mouse coat colour is telling scientists about the age-old "nature versus nurture" debate.

Jordan Peterson on ...
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04:30:00 02/02/13

Jordan Peterson on Slaying the Dragon Within Us. Peterson, a University of Toronto professor of psychology, talks about fear of the unknown and fear of dealing wit...

Jordan Peterson on Slaying the Dragon Within Us

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Jordan Peterson on Slaying the Dragon Within Us

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Jordan Peterson on Slaying the Dragon Within Us. Peterson, a University of Toronto professor of psychology, talks about fear of the unknown and fear of dealing with problems.

Clare Hasenkampf on...
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04:35:00 01/26/13

Clare Hasenkampf of the Biology Department at University of Toronto Scarborough presents her lecture Chromosomes Dividing: How It Is Done and Why It Matters.

Clare Hasenkampf on Chromosomes Dividing

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Clare Hasenkampf on Chromosomes Dividing

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Clare Hasenkampf of the Biology Department at University of Toronto Scarborough presents her lecture Chromosomes Dividing: How It Is Done and Why It Matters.

Clare Hasenkampf pr...
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04:30:00 01/26/13

Clare Hasenkampf from the Biology Department at University of Toronto Scarborough is profiled. Hasenkampf's plant biology research and her passion for New Orleans ...

Clare Hasenkampf profile - plant biology research

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Clare Hasenkampf profile - plant biology research

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Clare Hasenkampf from the Biology Department at University of Toronto Scarborough is profiled. Hasenkampf's plant biology research and her passion for New Orleans cooking are featured.

Lt. General (ret.) ...
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04:30:00 01/26/13

Lieutenant General (retired) Andrew Leslie, the Former Chief of Transformation for the Canadian Armed Forces, discusses the lessons that can be learned from the Ca...

Lt. General (ret.) Andrew Leslie on Lessons From Afghanistan

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Lt. General (ret.) Andrew Leslie on Lessons From Afghanistan

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Lieutenant General (retired) Andrew Leslie, the Former Chief of Transformation for the Canadian Armed Forces, discusses the lessons that can be learned from the Canadian military mission in Afghanistan. He explores how these lessons need to be applied to the Canadian Force's priorities in the face of future budget cuts.

Oliver Sacks on Mus...
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04:30:00 01/19/13

Neurologist and best-selling author, Oliver Sacks, discusses his book Musicophilia. and the ways our brains interact with and understand music.

Oliver Sacks on Musicophilia

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Oliver Sacks on Musicophilia

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Neurologist and best-selling author, Oliver Sacks, discusses his book Musicophilia. and the ways our brains interact with and understand music.

Noam Chomsky on The...
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04:30:00 01/12/13

American author and political activist, Noam Chomsky, speking at a benefit for Canadian Dimension Magazine, delivers a talk entitled The Imperial Presidency. Recor...

Noam Chomsky on The Imperial Presidency

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Noam Chomsky on The Imperial Presidency

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American author and political activist, Noam Chomsky, speking at a benefit for Canadian Dimension Magazine, delivers a talk entitled The Imperial Presidency. Recorded at University of Toronto on Nov 21/04.

Harvey Brown on the...
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04:30:00 01/12/13

Focusing on the work of Galileo, Newton, Descartes and Einstein, Harvey Brown examines the evolution of thinking about the surprisingly difficult concepts of time ...

Harvey Brown on the Concepts of Time and Motion

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Harvey Brown on the Concepts of Time and Motion

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Focusing on the work of Galileo, Newton, Descartes and Einstein, Harvey Brown examines the evolution of thinking about the surprisingly difficult concepts of time and motion.

Philip Ball on How ...
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04:30:00 01/05/13

Science writer Philip Ball on his book Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything. Ball explores how the history of science was influenced by the cultu...

Philip Ball on How Science Became Interested in Everything

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Philip Ball on How Science Became Interested in Everything

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Science writer Philip Ball on his book Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything. Ball explores how the history of science was influenced by the cultural accetance or rejection of human curiosity.

Philip Ball Q and A...
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04:25:00 01/05/13

Philip Ball - Question and Answer session following the lecture based on his book, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything

Philip Ball Q and A following his lecture on Curiosity

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Philip Ball Q and A following his lecture on Curiosity

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Philip Ball - Question and Answer session following the lecture based on his book, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything

Samantha Nutt - int...
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04:30:00 12/29/12

Samantha Nutt, Founder and Executive Director of War Child, is interviewed by Carol Off following her talk at the Grandest Challenge symposium.

Samantha Nutt - interviewed by Carol Off

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Samantha Nutt - interviewed by Carol Off

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Samantha Nutt, Founder and Executive Director of War Child, is interviewed by Carol Off following her talk at the Grandest Challenge symposium.

Stephen Lewis - int...
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04:30:00 12/29/12

Stephen Lewis of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, is interviewed by Gillian Findlay following his talk at the Grandest Challenge symposium.

Stephen Lewis - interviewed by Gillian Findlay

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Stephen Lewis - interviewed by Gillian Findlay

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Stephen Lewis of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, is interviewed by Gillian Findlay following his talk at the Grandest Challenge symposium.

Jordan Peterson on ...
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04:00:00 12/29/12

Jordan Peterson on Music and the Patterns of the Mind and World. Peterson, a University of Toronto professor of psychology, discusses the way in which music is per...

Jordan Peterson on Music and the Patterns of the Mind and W.

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Jordan Peterson on Music and the Patterns of the Mind and W.

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Jordan Peterson on Music and the Patterns of the Mind and World. Peterson, a University of Toronto professor of psychology, discusses the way in which music is perceived by humans. He compares the way we respond to visual arts, particularly the paintings of Picasso, to our perceptions of music in an effort to show how our brains respond differently to varied art forms.

Jill Tarter on the ...
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04:00:00 12/27/12

Dr. Jill Tarter, Director at the Centre for SETI Research, discusses the ongoing Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence and how new tools including the Allen Te...

Jill Tarter on the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence

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Jill Tarter on the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence

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Dr. Jill Tarter, Director at the Centre for SETI Research, discusses the ongoing Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence and how new tools including the Allen Telescope Array and the Keplar Spacecraft are helping to make the search much more likely to succeed.

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Ian Hacking on The Biosocial Being

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Ian Hacking on The Biosocial Being
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 November 14, 2011.