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Staffel 2012
2012x1
Julie Payette, Canadian Space Agency Perspectives from Space
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Jan 07, 2012
The Canadian Space Agency's Chief Astronaut, Julie Payette delivers a lecture entitled Canadian Space Agency Perspectives from Space: Research and Diplomacy.
2012x2
David Brooks on The Social Animal
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Jan 14, 2012
In a lecture entitled How Success Happens, New York Times columnist and author, David Brooks, draws from the research in his latest book The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, .. show full overview
2012x3
Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus
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Jan 21, 2012
Author, teacher and activist, Clay Shirky, discusses the visionary insights of Marshall McLuhan as well as his own ideas about the effects of new media and social networking on our .. show full overview
2012x4
Ray Jayawardhana on Alien Planets
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Jan 28, 2012
Author and astronomer Ray Jayawardhana discusses Alien Planets and his latest book Strange New Worlds. The lecture focuses on techniques for detecting planets orbiting distant stars.
2012x5
Robert J. Sawyer on Humanity 2.0
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Feb 04, 2012
What will it mean to be human in the future? Uploading consciousness into virtual worlds and prolonging life through biotechnology are already being contemplated. Canada's leading .. show full overview
2012x6
Charles Taylor and Jonathan Sacks on The Future of Religion
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Feb 11, 2012
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University, Charles Taylor and Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, Jonathan Sacks discuss .. show full overview
2012x7
Steven Pinker on Thinking About Our Society
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Feb 18, 2012
Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, delivers a lecture entitled Thinking About Our Society: Why Violence Has Declined. Pinker (Psychology - Harvard University) .. show full overview
2012x8
Adam Gopnik on Remembering Winter
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Feb 25, 2012
Bestselling author, essayist and New Yorker contributor, Adam Gopnik, delivers the fifth installment of the 2011 CBC Massey Lectures, Winter: Five Windows on the Season. In this .. show full overview
2012x9
Graham Farmelo on Paul Dirac and Mathematical Beauty
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Mär 03, 2012
Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University in Boston, Graham Farmelo, on Paul Dirac and the Religion of Mathematical Beauty. Apart from Einstein, Paul Dirac was probably the .. show full overview
2012x10
Sean Martindale on Playful Interventions: Urban Environments
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Mär 10, 2012
Toronto-based public-space artist, Sean Martindale on Playful Interventions: Engaging Our Urban Environments. Martindale discusses public art projects including his Poster Pocket .. show full overview
2012x11
John Duffy on The Emerging Politics of Technology
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Mär 17, 2012
John Duffy, advisor to former Prime Minister Paul Martin and founder of StrategyCorp, tackles the subject of The Emerging Politics of Technology in a lecture produced in collaboration .. show full overview
2012x12
George Dyson on the Origins of the Digital Universe
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Mär 24, 2012
Science historian and author (Darwin Among the Machines) George Dyson on the Origins of the Digital Universe. The talk focuses on the work done at The Institute for Advanced Study in .. show full overview
2012x13
Daniel Kahneman on The Machinery of the Mind
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Mär 31, 2012
Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, on The Machinery of the Mind. Kahneman is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics.
2012x14
Romeo Dallaire and Stephen Lewis on Child Soldiers
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Apr 07, 2012
Drawing on their vast experiences and first-hand knowledge, distinguished humanitarians Senator Romeo Dallaire and Stephen Lewis, enter into a dialogue about the issues that they have .. show full overview
2012x15
Philosopher Ian Hacking on The Biosocial Being
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Apr 14, 2012
Philosopher Ian Hacking delivers the 2011 Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture entitled Who Are You? The Biosocial Being. The lecture, which looks at how much of who we are is determined by .. show full overview
2012x16
Art historian Francis Broun on Artemisia Gentileschi
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Apr 21, 2012
Art historian Francis Broun discusses the work of the 17th century painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Broun explores why Artemisia, who was widely respected in her own time, was forgotten .. show full overview
2012x17
Graeme Gibson on Our Human Connection to Nature
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Apr 28, 2012
Graeme Gibson, author of The Bedside Book of Beasts, and recipient of the Order of Canada, explores the many ways that humans relate to the natural world. His lecture, entitled Echoes of .. show full overview
2012x18
Dr. Iain McGilchrist on Our Mind at War
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Mai 05, 2012
Renowned British psychiatrist and author, Iain McGilchrist, delivers a lecture entitled Our Mind at War, drawing from research in his latest book, The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.
2012x19
Allen J. Frances on The Overdiagnosis of Mental Illness
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Mai 12, 2012
Psychiatrist and author, Allen J. Frances, believes that mental illnesses are being over-diagnosed. In his lecture, Diagnostic Inflation: Does Everyone Have a Mental Illness?, Dr. .. show full overview
2012x20
Lisa Harvey-Smith on the SKA mega-telescope
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Mai 19, 2012
Lisa Harvey-Smith of CSIRO discusses the mega-telescope known as the Square Kilometre Array. CSIRO, the Australian Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, is part of .. show full overview
2012x21
Dr. Marc D. Lewis on Memoirs of an Addicted Brain
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Mai 26, 2012
Dr. Marc D. Lewis discusses the story and the science behind his book Memoirs of an Addicted Brain. Lewis is a professor at the Behavioral Science Institute, part of Radboud University .. show full overview
2012x23
Chris Turner on How to Thrive in the Sustainable Economy
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Sep 30, 2012
Chris Turner discusses his book The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy. Citing German energy policy and business examples such as Walmart, Turner explains how sustainability makes excellent business sense.
2012x24
Northrop Frye on An Approach to the Bible
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Okt 06, 2012
Renowned literary theorist, Northrop Frye, delivers the first lecture in his famous course on The Bible and Literature. The lecture is entitled "An Approach to the Bible".
2012x25
Northrop Frye on The Shape of the Bible
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Okt 07, 2012
Renowned literary theorist, Northrop Frye, delivers the second lecture in his famous course on The Bible and Literature. The lecture is entitled "The Shape of the Bible".
2012x26
Rebecca MacKinnon on Internet Freedom and Security
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Okt 13, 2012
Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, discusses her book Consent of the Networked which examines issues of internet freedom and security. MacKinnon looks at Internet regulation .. show full overview
2012x27
Don Kurtz on Stellar Seismology
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Okt 20, 2012
Don Kurtz, of the University of Central Lancashire, discusses asteroseismology in a lecture entitled Songs of the Stars: The Real Music of the Spheres. He explains how sound waves are .. show full overview
2012x28
Iain McGilchrist on the divided brain's impact on our world
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Okt 27, 2012
Dr. Iain McGilchrist is a renowned psychiatrist and author. Drawing from his book, "The Master and his Emissary", McGilchrist explores how the divided brain is shaping modern .. show full overview
2012x29
Grandest Challenge Symposium Pt1 including James Maskalyk
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Nov 03, 2012
Taking its name from the book The Grandest Challenge: Taking Life-Saving Science from Lab to Village, this symposium includes the book's authors, Dr. Abdallah Daar and Dr. Peter Singer .. show full overview
2012x30
Grandest Challenge Symposium Pt 2 featuring James Orbinski
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Nov 04, 2012
Our second installment of The Grandest Challenge Symposium features James Orbinski, author of An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century. Following Dr. .. show full overview
2012x31
Douglas Thomas on A New Culture of Learning
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Nov 10, 2012
Douglas Thomas, author of A New Culture of Learning, delivers a lecture on the intersections of technology, culture and education. This lecture is part of Learning 2030, TVO's special .. show full overview
2012x32
Senator Hugh Segal on Fighting Poverty in Canada
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Nov 24, 2012
In a lecture entitled "Fighting Poverty", Senator Hugh Segal explains why we need a new national approach to tackling poverty arguing that the costs and consequences of poverty are much .. show full overview
2012x22
Andrew Coyne on Post-Economic Politics in Canada
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Nov 29, 2012
National Post columnist, Andrew Coyne, presents a lecture entitled Post-Economic Politics in Canada. In Coyne's opinion, the state of the economy, contrary to popular belief, will not .. show full overview
2012x33
Tyler Cowen and Andrew Coyne on The Great Stagnation
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Dez 01, 2012
Tyler Cowen discusses his book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick and Will (Eventually) Feel Better. Andrew Coyne (National Post) .. show full overview
2012x34
Julian Barbour on Does Time Exist?
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Dez 08, 2012
Julian Barbour, visiting professor at the University of Oxford and the author of "The End of Time", addresses the question, Does Time Exist? Barbour explores the history of scientific .. show full overview
2012x35
Jordan Peterson on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity
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Dez 15, 2012
University of Toronto Psychology Professor, Jordan Peterson, on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity. Dr. Peterson's lecture was the keynote address at the 2012 Meaning Conference held in Toronto.
2012x36 Staffelfinale
Grandest Challenge Pt 3 - Samantha Nutt and Stephen Lewis
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Dez 22, 2012
Our third installment of The Grandest Challenge Symposium features Samantha Nutt, Founder and Executive Director of War Child. Also featured is Stephen Lewis, Chair of the Stephen Lewis .. show full overview

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