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Temporada 2011
2011x1
Simon Winchester on The Man Who Loved China
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Jan 08, 2011
Journalist, broadcaster and bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the remarkable story of Joseph Needham, an eccentric English chemist who wrote a vast book on Chinese science which .. show full overview
2011x2
Jordan Peterson on The Necessity of Virtue
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Jan 15, 2011
Author, professor and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson delivers the 2010 Hancock Lecture. He discusses virtue from a contemporary perspective that both encompasses and extends beyond moral and religious contexts.
2011x3
Chris Hedges on The Death of the Liberal Class
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Jan 22, 2011
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Chris Hedges delivers a lecture on his latest book The Death of the Liberal Class. He argues that American liberalism, a once proud political .. show full overview
2011x4
Daniel Dennett: What Should Replace Religions?
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Jan 29, 2011
Noted atheist and secularist Daniel Dennett delivers his lecture "What Should Replace Religions?" Dennett is co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher .. show full overview
2011x5
PZ Myers: Science and Atheism: Natural Allies
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Jan 30, 2011
Biology professor and well-known blogger PZ Myers on Science and Atheism: Natural Allies.
2011x6
Derek Walcott
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Fev 05, 2011
University of Toronto professor Christian Campbell talks to Nobel laureate poet Derek Walcott about his remarkable life and work.
2011x7
Seth Lloyd on Quantum Life
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Fev 12, 2011
Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology on Quantum Life, how organisms have evolved to make use of quantum effects.
2011x8
Richard Wilkinson on The Spirit Level
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Fev 19, 2011
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 ground-breaking .. show full overview
2011x9
Robert Adams on The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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Fev 26, 2011
Author and book reviewer Robert Adams discusses the novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.
2011x10
David Sloan Wilson on Religion and Other Meaning Systems
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Mar 05, 2011
Professor David Sloan Wilson examines how the experience of the religious believer differs from the secular thinker and argues that both can be understood in terms of their particular .. show full overview
2011x11
Nick Mount on cartoonist Seth
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Mar 12, 2011
University of Toronto English professor Nick Mount on the graphic novel It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth.
2011x12
Ian Hacking on the Mathematical Animal
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Mar 19, 2011
University of Toronto philosophy professor Ian Hacking presents a lecture on The Mathematical Animal.
2011x13
Hod Lipson on The Robotic Scientist
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Mar 26, 2011
Hod Lipson discusses mining experimental data for scientific laws at a Perimeter Institute lecture
2011x14
Michael Adams on The Boomer Impact
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Abr 02, 2011
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 .. show full overview
2011x15
Sara Seager on Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds
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Abr 09, 2011
Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology delivers a lecture on Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds.
2011x16
Rupinder Brar on The Impact of Astronomy
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Abr 16, 2011
2010 Best Lecturer Competition winner Rupinder Brar delivers a new lecture entitled, The Impact of Astronomy on Humankind's Perception of the Universe,
2011x17
Robert Adams on The Forgotten
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Abr 17, 2011
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 .. show full overview
2011x19
Piergiorgio Odifreddi: What Can the Arts Do for Mathematics?
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Abr 21, 2011
In an illustrated talk, Italian mathematician Dr. Piergiorgio Odifreddi examines the deep and close relationships between the objects of mathematics and of the arts.
2011x18
Rod Carley on Theatre in the 21st Century: Touchstone to Humanity
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Abr 23, 2011
Rod Carley, winner of the 2009 Best Lecturer Competition, delivers a new lecture entitled, Theatre in the 21st Century: Touchstone to Humanity.
2011x20
Christopher W. diCarlo on The New Ethics
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Abr 30, 2011
Christopher diCarlo, winner of the 2008 Best Lecturer Competition, delivers a new lecture entitled The New Ethics: A Synthetic Approach to Understanding Good and Evil.
2011x21
Cory Doctorow: Why it's a Bad Idea to Regulate Computers
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Mai 01, 2011
Science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist Cory Doctorow delivers a lecture entitled Why it's a Bad Idea to Regulate Computers the Way We Regulate Radios, Guns, Uranium and Other Special-Purpose Tools.
2011x22
Michael Persinger: No More Secrets
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Mai 07, 2011
2007 Best Lecturer winner Michael Persinger of Laurentian University in Sudbury delivers a lecture entitled "Just Suppose You Could Know What Others are Thinking: No More Secrets".
2011x23
Armine Yalnizyan on Economics, Equality and Democracy
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Mai 08, 2011
The senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives discusses how too much power in too few hands is having an impact on our democracy.
2011x24
Arne Kislenko on Southeast Asia and the Cold War
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Mai 14, 2011
Arne Kislenko, winner of the 2005 Best Lecturer Competition, on Triumph and Tragedy: Southeast Asia and the Cold War.
2011x25
Charles Foran: Mordecai Richler and the Challenge to Nationalism
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Mai 15, 2011
Novelist and critic Charles Foran recently won the 2011 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction for his book "Mordecai: The Life & Times".
2011x26
Noam Chomsky on Academic Freedom
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Mai 21, 2011
Noam Chomsky, one of America's leading scholars and intellectuals, delivers a lecture on academic freedom and the corporatization of universities.
2011x27
Can We Live Without the Sacred?
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Mai 26, 2011
Psychologist Jordan Peterson and philosopher Ronald de Sousa go head-to-head in a lively debate over the question: Can we live without the sacred?
2011x30
Jeff Melanson on the Evolving Role of the Arts in Canada
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Out 01, 2011
Jeff Melanson is the executive director of Canada's National Ballet School and recently accepted the position of President and CEO of The Banff Centre. This lecture was recorded at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto on May 24, 2011.
2011x31
Freeman Dyson on Living Through Four Revolutions
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Out 08, 2011
Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University delivers a lecture entitled, Living Through Four Revolutions. Dyson discusses Space Technology, Nuclear Energy, the Genome and the Computer Revolution.
2011x32
John Gray: The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death
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Out 15, 2011
In the late nineteenth century and as a consequence of Darwinism, many thinkers turned to science to solve the riddle of death. Philosopher and author John Gray explores humankind's dangerous striving toward a scientific version of immortality.
2011x33
Thomas Homer-Dixon: Civilization Far from Equilibrium: Energy, Complexity & Human Survival
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Out 22, 2011
Thomas Homer-Dixon holds the CIGI Chair of Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo. This lecture, entitled Civilization Far From Equilibrium: Energy, .. show full overview
2011x34
Noam Chomsky on The State-Corporate Complex
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Out 29, 2011
Academic, author and political activist Noam Chomsky on the State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival. Chomsky's lecture was delivered at the Hart House Great Hall on April 7, 2011.
2011x35
Leonard Susskind: The World as Hologram
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Nov 05, 2011
Leonard Susskind of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics discusses the indestructability of information and the nature of black holes in a lecture entitled The World As Hologram.
2011x36
Alex Himelfarb on the Consequences of Tax Cuts
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Nov 12, 2011
How Did Taxes Become a Bad Word? The Former Clerk of the Privy Council, Alex Himelfarb, discusses why we should be investing more, not less, in our future. While today's political .. show full overview
2011x37
Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Things to Come
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Nov 19, 2011
Hod Lipson of Cornell University discusses the future of 3-D printing in his lecture entitled, Programmable Matter: The Shape of Things to Come. Lipson is an Associate Professor of .. show full overview
2011x29
David Keith on Technology, Energy and Nature
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Nov 24, 2011
David Keith, speaking at the Equinox Summit, discusses Technology, Energy and Nature - Human Values and Open Choices. Professor Keith holds the Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment at the University of Calgary.
2011x38
Gaspar Tamas on The Failure of Liberal Democracy
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Nov 26, 2011
Hungarian philosopher, Gaspar Tamas, on The Failure of Liberal Democracy in Eastern Europe and Everywhere Else. His lecture was delivered at the Munk School of Global Affairs on .. show full overview
2011x39
Liberty and the Arab Spring: Exploring Isaiah Berlin's Ideas in a Changing World
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Dez 03, 2011
Senior resident at Massey College, Michael Ignatieff, and University of Toronto political science professor Ramin Jahanbegloo discuss Liberty and the Arab Spring: Exploring Isaiah Berlin's Ideas in a Changing World. Mark Kingwell is the moderator.
2011x40
Armine Yalnizyan and William Watson on economic disparity
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Dez 04, 2011
Senior economist Armine Yalnizyan and economics professor and columnist William Watson debate "Inequality: A Threat to Democracy?" at the 2011 Keith Davey Forum on Public Affairs. Jeffrey Kopstein moderates.
2011x41
John Ibbitson: The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus
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Dez 10, 2011
John Ibbitson, Ottawa bureau chief for the Globe and Mail, delivers a lecture on The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus and the Rise of Ontario as a Pacific Province. This lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.
2011x42
Keith Devlin on Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple
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Dez 17, 2011
Keith Devlin, Executive Director of the H-STAR Institute at Stanford University, discusses Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years.
2011x43
Psychologist Jordan Peterson on The Necessity of Virtue
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Dez 24, 2011
University of Toronto professor and clinical psychologist, Jordan Peterson, delivers the 2010 Hancock Lecture entitled The Necessity of Virtue. He discusses virtue from a contemporary .. show full overview
2011x44 Final da Temporada
Stephen Hawking: The Power of Ideas
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Dez 31, 2011
Ivan Semeniuk, Chief of Corespondents for Nature leads a discussion centered on the ideas and thoughts of Stephen Hawking. Neil Turok, Julie Payette, Rebecca Saxe and S. James Gates, Jr. .. show full overview

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