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Stephen Lewis on Cl...
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04:30:00 12/22/12

Stephen Lewis, social sciences scholar in residence at McMaster University, delivers a talk entitled, Climate Change; the New Big Thing.

Stephen Lewis on Climate Change

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Stephen Lewis on Climate Change

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Stephen Lewis, social sciences scholar in residence at McMaster University, delivers a talk entitled, Climate Change; the New Big Thing.

Jordan Peterson on ...
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04:30:00 12/15/12

University of Toronto Psychology Professor, Jordan Peterson, on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity. Dr. Peterson's lecture was the keynote address at the 20...

Jordan Peterson on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity

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Jordan Peterson on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity

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University of Toronto Psychology Professor, Jordan Peterson, on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity. Dr. Peterson's lecture was the keynote address at the 2012 Meaning Conference held in Toronto.

Samantha Nutt, Foun...
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04:30:00 12/15/12

Samantha Nutt, Founder and Executive Director of War Child Canada, and author of the book Damned Nations speaks at The Grandest Challenge Symposium.

Samantha Nutt, Founder and Executive Director of War Child

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Samantha Nutt, Founder and Executive Director of War Child

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Samantha Nutt, Founder and Executive Director of War Child Canada, and author of the book Damned Nations speaks at The Grandest Challenge Symposium.

Stephen Lewis of th...
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04:30:00 12/15/12

Stephen Lewis of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, and author of Race Against Time speaks at The Grandest Challenge Symposium.

Stephen Lewis of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law

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Stephen Lewis of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law

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Stephen Lewis of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, and author of Race Against Time speaks at The Grandest Challenge Symposium.

Rupinder Brar profi...
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04:00:00 12/15/12

Rupinder Brar (Physics - University of Ontario Institute of Technology) is profiled, focusing on his interest in astronomy, his desire to be an astronaut and his p...

Rupinder Brar profile - Astronomy and political aspirations

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Rupinder Brar profile - Astronomy and political aspirations

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Rupinder Brar (Physics - University of Ontario Institute of Technology) is profiled, focusing on his interest in astronomy, his desire to be an astronaut and his political aspirations.

Rupinder Brar on Re...
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04:00:00 12/15/12

Rupinder Brar lectures on the topic of Einstein's special relativity theory and it's explanation of time dilation and simultaneity. The lecture is entitled Relativ...

Rupinder Brar on Relativity, Einstein, and How to Stay Young

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Rupinder Brar on Relativity, Einstein, and How to Stay Young

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Rupinder Brar lectures on the topic of Einstein's special relativity theory and it's explanation of time dilation and simultaneity. The lecture is entitled Relativity, Einstein, the Speed of Light and How to Stay Young.

Julian Barbour on D...
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04:30:00 12/08/12

Julian Barbour, visiting professor at the University of Oxford and the author of The End of Time, addresses the question, Does Time Exist? Barbour explores the his...

Julian Barbour on Does Time Exist?

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Julian Barbour on Does Time Exist?

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Julian Barbour, visiting professor at the University of Oxford and the author of The End of Time, addresses the question, Does Time Exist? Barbour explores the history of scientific thought on the concept of time and presents his own interpretations of what time is.

Margaret Atwood: Pa...
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04:00:00 12/08/12

Preeminent author, Margaret Atwood, delivers the 2008 Massey Lecture, "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth".

Margaret Atwood: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

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Margaret Atwood: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

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Preeminent author, Margaret Atwood, delivers the 2008 Massey Lecture, "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth".

Tyler Cowen and And...
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04:30:00 12/01/12

Tyler Cowen discusses his book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick and Will (Eventually) Feel Better. Andre...

Tyler Cowen and Andrew Coyne on The Great Stagnation

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Tyler Cowen and Andrew Coyne on The Great Stagnation

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Tyler Cowen discusses his book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick and Will (Eventually) Feel Better. Andrew Coyne (National Post) presents a rebuttal and the pair discuss Cowen's thesis focusing on issues of productivity, innovation and government policy (moderated by Wendy Dobson).

Senator Hugh Segal ...
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04:30:00 11/24/12

In a lecture entitled "Fighting Poverty", Senator Hugh Segal explains why we need a new national approach to tackling poverty arguing that the costs and consequenc...

Senator Hugh Segal on Fighting Poverty in Canada

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Senator Hugh Segal on Fighting Poverty in Canada

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In a lecture entitled "Fighting Poverty", Senator Hugh Segal explains why we need a new national approach to tackling poverty arguing that the costs and consequences of poverty are much larger than direct spending on social programs. Segal has been a long-time proponent of establishing a Guaranteed Annual Income. This lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.

Louis A. Perez, Jr....
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04:30:00 11/17/12

Louis A. Perez, Jr. of the Department of History at the University of North Carolina, speaks about Cuban culture and revolution.

Louis A. Perez, Jr. on Cuban culture and revolution

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Louis A. Perez, Jr. on Cuban culture and revolution

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Louis A. Perez, Jr. of the Department of History at the University of North Carolina, speaks about Cuban culture and revolution.

Jacalyn Duffin prof...
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04:00:00 11/17/12

Jacalyn Duffin from the Department of Medicine at Queen's University is profiled. She discusses her teaching style and how she ended up researching the history of ...

Jacalyn Duffin profile - History of Medicine

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Jacalyn Duffin profile - History of Medicine

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Jacalyn Duffin from the Department of Medicine at Queen's University is profiled. She discusses her teaching style and how she ended up researching the history of medicine.

Jacalyn Duffin on t...
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04:00:00 11/17/12

Jacalyn Duffin of the Department of Medicine at Queen's University on History of the Stethoscope and the Meaning of Life.

Jacalyn Duffin on the History of the Stethoscope

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Jacalyn Duffin on the History of the Stethoscope

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Jacalyn Duffin of the Department of Medicine at Queen's University on History of the Stethoscope and the Meaning of Life.

Douglas Thomas on A...
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04:30:00 11/10/12

Douglas Thomas, author of A New Culture of Learning, delivers a lecture on the intersections of technology, culture and education. This lecture is part of Learning...

Douglas Thomas on A New Culture of Learning

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Douglas Thomas on A New Culture of Learning

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Douglas Thomas, author of A New Culture of Learning, delivers a lecture on the intersections of technology, culture and education. This lecture is part of Learning 2030, TVO's special series on the future of education and was recorded on October 28, 2012.

Grandest Challenge ...
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04:35:00 11/03/12

Our second installment of The Grandest Challenge Symposium features James Orbinski, author of An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Centur...

Grandest Challenge Symposium Pt 2 featuring James Orbinski

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Grandest Challenge Symposium Pt 2 featuring James Orbinski

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Our second installment of The Grandest Challenge Symposium features James Orbinski, author of An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century. Following Dr. Orbinski's lecture he is joined in conversation by moderator Gillian Findlay.

Abdallah Daar and P...
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04:30:00 11/03/12

Taking it's name from the book The Grandest Challenge: Taking Life-Saving Science from Lab to Village, this part of the symposium features the book's authors, Dr. ...

Abdallah Daar and Peter Singer on The Grandest Challenge

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Abdallah Daar and Peter Singer on The Grandest Challenge

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Taking it's name from the book The Grandest Challenge: Taking Life-Saving Science from Lab to Village, this part of the symposium features the book's authors, Dr. Abdallah Daar and Dr. Peter Singer.

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Marc Abrahams on science

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Marc Abrahams on science
09/29/07

Marc Abrahams, editor of The Annals of Improbable Research and one of the organizers of the annual Ig-Nobel Prize ceremonies at Harvard University, discusses the work of scientists and academics that, "first makes you laugh, and then makes you think". Highlights of the lecture include discussions of a study that proves that Kansas is flatter than a pancake and a paper investigating The Forces Required to Drag Sheep Over Various Surfaces.