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Big Ideas (Audio)

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 app... Read more

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Christopher Hitchens on Freedom of Speech

Christopher Hitchens on Freedom of Speech

Christopher Hitchens voices his opinion on the subject of the Hart House Debating Club debate: Be it resolved: Freedom o... Read more

15 Jun 2013

21mins

Ranked #2

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Susan Sontag on modern literacy - 2002

Susan Sontag on modern literacy - 2002

Author Susan Sontag, speaking at the Living Literacies Conference (November 2002) at York University in Toronto, deliver... Read more

25 Jun 2010

1hr 5mins

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Alain de Botton on Status Anxiety

Alain de Botton on Status Anxiety

Alain de Botton discusses his book Status Anxiety which examines our fears over what others think about us and about how... Read more

7 Jul 2012

39mins

Ranked #4

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Nick Mount on Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot

Nick Mount on Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot

University of Toronto English professor Nick Mount discusses Samuel Beckett?s controversial play Waiting For Godot.

19 Dec 2009

48mins

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Camille Paglia on religion

Camille Paglia on religion

Describing herself as an atheist who defends religion, academic and author, Camille Paglia, argues that an understanding... Read more

7 Nov 2009

51mins

Ranked #6

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Daniel Kahneman on The Machinery of the Mind

Daniel Kahneman on The Machinery of the Mind

Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, on The Machinery of the Mind. Kahneman is Emeritus Professor of Psyc... Read more

31 Mar 2012

47mins

Ranked #7

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Noam Chomsky on the State-Corporate Complex

Noam Chomsky on the State-Corporate Complex

Academic, author and political activist, Noam Chomsky, on the State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival.... Read more

29 Oct 2011

55mins

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Camille Paglia on The Future of Education

Camille Paglia on The Future of Education

Educator and author, Camille Paglia, discusses The Future of Education at the 2010 Globe and Mail Open House Festival in... Read more

5 Jan 2011

33mins

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Jordan Peterson on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity

Jordan Peterson on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity

University of Toronto Psychology Professor, Jordan Peterson, on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity. Dr. Peterson... Read more

15 Dec 2012

46mins

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Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram

Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram

Leonard Susskind of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics discusses the indestructability of information and th... Read more

5 Nov 2011

55mins

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Steven Pinker on Thinking About Our Society

Steven Pinker on Thinking About Our Society

Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, delivers a lecture entitled Thinking About Our Society: Why Vi... Read more

18 Feb 2012

40mins

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Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Things to Come

Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Things to Come

Hod Lipson of Cornell University discusses the future of 3-D printing in his lecture entitled, Programmable Matter: The ... Read more

19 Nov 2011

53mins

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James Allard - Best Lecturer Finalist - on Frankenstein: Five Ways

James Allard - Best Lecturer Finalist - on Frankenstein: Five Ways

James Allard from the English Language and Literature department at Brock University in St. Catharines delivers his comp... Read more

7 Mar 2009

46mins

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Keith Devlin on Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple

Keith Devlin on Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple

Keith Devlin, Executive Director of the H-STAR Institute at Stanford University, discusses Leonardo and Steve: How Fibon... Read more

17 Dec 2011

55mins

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam

Somali-born author Ayaan Hirsi Ali delivers the 2010 Donner Canadian Foundation Lecture. Her lecture is based on her bo... Read more

25 Sep 2010

28mins

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Robert K. Logan on The Origin and Evolution of Language

Robert K. Logan on The Origin and Evolution of Language

University of Toronto Physics professor Robert K. Logan on The Origin and Evolution of Language and the Emergence of Con... Read more

16 Jul 2011

24mins

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Dr. Norman Doidge on neuroplasticity

Dr. Norman Doidge on neuroplasticity

Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and best-selling author, Dr. Norman Doidge, on his book, The Brain that Changes Itself, an ... Read more

30 Apr 2012

55mins

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Paul Stevens - Best Lecturer Finalist - on Milton's Satan

Paul Stevens - Best Lecturer Finalist - on Milton's Satan

Paul Stevens from the English department at the University of Toronto St. George delivers his competition lecture entitl... Read more

14 Mar 2009

44mins

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Noam Chomsky on Academic Freedom

Noam Chomsky on Academic Freedom

Noam Chomsky is one of America's leading scholars and intellectuals. He is a professor emeritus of linguistics at the M... Read more

21 May 2011

55mins

Ranked #20

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

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

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

16 Feb 2013

48mins

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