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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 app... more
FAQs about Big Ideas (Audio):How many episodes does Big Ideas (Audio) have?The podcast currently has 306 episodes available.
June 06, 2009Robert Fulford on A World Reconfigured: Politics and Perceptions Since 9-11Canadian author, journalist and broadcaster Robert Fulford delivers his 2003 lecture A World Reconfigured: Politics and Perceptions Since 9-11...more44minPlay
May 31, 2009J.B. Mackinnon, Alisa Smith, and Adria Vasil on the environmentThe authors of The 100-Mile Diet and Ecoholic deliver lectures on eating and living sustainably, in Part 2 of The Green Summit....more49minPlay
May 30, 2009Thomas Homer-Dixon and Chris Turner on the environmentAuthors Thomas Homer-Dixon and Chris Turner deliver lectures on issues including climate change, green energy, and creating the foundations of a sustainable future, in the first of the 2-part special, The Green Summit....more56minPlay
May 23, 2009Don Tapscott on the ways the Net Generation learn differentlyThe author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott, refutes the belief that the internet is turning today's youth into "the dumbest generation". Tapscott illustrates how the net has changed the way people learn and offers suggestions on how to tap into the expertise that the Net Generation possesses....more55minPlay
May 16, 2009John Ralston Saul on what defines Canada as a nationJohn Ralson Saul argues that Canada is a Metis nation, critically influenced and shaped by aboriginal ideas....more57minPlay
May 09, 2009Gwynne Dyer on global warming and his book Climate WarsJournalist and historian, Gwynne Dyer, discusses his book Climate Wars, outlining the impact that climate change is likely to have on international relations. Dyer focuses particularly on the military conflicts that he sees resulting from global warming....more1h 12minPlay
May 02, 2009Leo Panitch on the lessons of MarxismLeo Panitch delivers this year's Phyllis Clarke Memorial Lecture entitled "Still a Marxist After All: Lessons and Insights for our Time"....more44minPlay
April 25, 2009Hazel Carby on the British slave trade and the question of identity for people of West Indian heritage in the U.K.In her lecture, Belonging to Britain, Hazel Carby looks at the historic relationship between England and Jamaica, including the history of the slave trade in Bristol and the complex question of identity for those of mixed British and West Indian heritage. Carby is a professor of African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University....more47minPlay
April 18, 2009Bernard-Henry Levy'sPhilosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Levy critiques present-day leftist politics for its anti-liberalism, anti-Americanism, and for being soft on radical Islamism....more51minPlay
March 29, 2009Merv Mosher - Best Lecturer Finalist - on Statistics: What's the Point?Merv Mosher from the Kinesiology and Health Science department at York University in Toronto is profiled and delivers his lecture entitled, Statistics: What's the Point?...more45minPlay
FAQs about Big Ideas (Audio):How many episodes does Big Ideas (Audio) have?The podcast currently has 306 episodes available.