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Rupinder Brar on Th...
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04:30:00 04/16/11

Big Ideas presents 2010 Best Lecturer Competition winner Rupinder Brar on The Impact of Astronomy on Humankind's Perception of the Universe

Rupinder Brar on The Impact of Astronomy

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Rupinder Brar on The Impact of Astronomy

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Big Ideas presents 2010 Best Lecturer Competition winner Rupinder Brar on The Impact of Astronomy on Humankind's Perception of the Universe

Robert Adams on The...
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04:30:00 04/16/11

Popular Welsh-born storyteller Robert Adams reviews Elie Wiesel's novel, The Forgotten, the profoundly moving story of an ailing Holocaust survivor who lives with ...

Robert Adams on The Forgotten

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Robert Adams on The Forgotten

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Popular Welsh-born storyteller Robert Adams reviews Elie Wiesel's novel, The Forgotten, the profoundly moving story of an ailing Holocaust survivor who lives with disturbing memories and entrusts his son with a mysterious mission. Adams' talk was delivered at the Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue on November 2nd, 2010, as part of Holocaust Education Week.

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

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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.

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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

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Rupinder Brar on The Impact of Astronomy

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04/16/11

Big Ideas presents 2010 Best Lecturer Competition winner Rupinder Brar on The Impact of Astronomy on Humankind's Perception of the Universe