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Big Ideas
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Big Ideas offers lectures on a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science.... By nature of its lecture format, pacing and inquisitive approach, it is the antithesis of the prevailing sound-bite television norm. The simple, bold concept is a victory of substance over style.

Big Ideas airs Saturdays and Sundays at 4:00 PM EST on TVO - Canada's largest educational broadcaster.
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August
16
2008
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Lee Smolin of Perimeter Institute delivers his lecture, Why Does Science Work?
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Past Episodes
November
08
2008
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Ronald Wright, the author of What Is America?: A Short History of the New World Order, examines the dichotomy between "America's ideals and the realities". Wright discusses how such conflicts as those between Native Americans and the Europeans who came to settle...
November
01
2008
University of Toronto philosophy professor and author, Mark Kingwell, and journalist Malcolm Gladwell square off in a lively debate about social change and how best to achieve it.
October
25
2008
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Drawing on his experience with drug addicted patients from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Dr. Gabor Mate discusses how the medical and legal systems are failing in the so called "war on drugs". Dr. Mate reads from his fourth book, "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts:...
October
18
2008
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In light of the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canada, Ovide Mercredi, chief of the Misipawistic Cree nation and former chief of the Assembly of First Nations, reflects on what true reconciliation means and explains that it will...
October
11
2008
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Jefferson Medical College professor Salman Akhtar discusses "The Trauma of Geophysical Dislocation", proposing that psychoanalysts need to pay special attention to their immigrant patients. Akhtar suggests that the immigration experience creates disruptions...
October
04
2008
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Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., delivers this year's Donner Canadian Foundation lecture drawing upon his recently released book The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States and the Quest for a...
September
27
2008
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Benjamin Barber's books include Strong Democracy, Jihad vs. McWorld and Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole. Speaking at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Barber explains how the ideal of people...
September
20
2008
"Time and Einstein in the 21st Century: The Coolest Stuff in the Universe" is the title of this exceptionally entertaining lecture. Phillips, who works with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, demonstrates the cooling potential of liquid nitrogen,...
September
13
2008
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Professor Richard C. Lewontin of Harvard University delivers a lecture on the topic of The Co-evolution of Organisms and the Environment.
September
06
2008
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Alberto Manguel on the duality of Pablo Picasso's artistic brilliance and personal evil.
August
30
2008
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Dr. Guy Proulx, Director of Psychology and NeuroRehabilitation at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care delivers a lecture entitled, Wisdom Versus Dementia: A Walk Through the Aging Brain.
August
23
2008
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Kay Redfield Jamison of Johns Hopkins University gives a lecture about suicide drawing on the research from her book, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide.
August
16
2008
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Lee Smolin of Perimeter Institute delivers his lecture, Why Does Science Work?
August
09
2008
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Mark Kingwell delivers a lecture on Representations of the Intellectual in Everyday Life. Has pop culture ruined the intellectual?
August
02
2008
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Zach Hall - Dean of Research at the School of Medicine of University of Southern California discusses, Neuroethics: A Challenge for a New Age.
July
26
2008
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Dr. Leon Kass, Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics, examines the distinct ethical dilemmas that surround stem cell research. Dr. Kass addresses a fundamental philosophical question: Why not immortality?
July
19
2008
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Clifford Will delivers a lecture entitled, "Was Einstein Right? Can Einstein?s Theories Survive Today?s Scientific Scrutiny?"
July
12
2008
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Wendy Steiner, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania presents a lecture based on her book The Trouble with Beauty.
July
05
2008
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Arthur I. Miller compares Einstein to Picasso. Miller is the author of a book entitled "Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc".
June
28
2008
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Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and best-selling author, Dr. Norman Doidge, discusses the findings in his latest book, The Brain that Changes Itself, an examination of brain neuroplasticity.
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