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 approach, it is the antithesis of the prevailing sound-bit
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Alexander Nehamas -individual character and ideas of beauty
Big Ideas presents Princeton University professor of Philosophy and Comparative ...
Big Ideas presents Princeton University professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Alexander Nehamas, on how individual character defines our ideas of what is beautiful
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Eric Mazur on Stopping Time
Eric Mazur, the Dean of Applied Physics at Harvard University, ...
Eric Mazur, the Dean of Applied Physics at Harvard University, delivers a lecture entitled, Stopping Time. In it he breaks time down into it's smallest measureable components via photography and developments in laser technology.
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Michael Hardt on The Politics of Love and Evil
Big Ideas presents Duke University Literary Theorist, Michael Hardt, discussing ...
Big Ideas presents Duke University Literary Theorist, Michael Hardt, discussing The Politics of Love and Evil
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Joseph Emerson on The Quantum Tamers
Big Ideas presents Joseph Emerson of the Department of Applied ...
Big Ideas presents Joseph Emerson of the Department of Applied Math at the University of Waterloo on the documentary The Quantum Tamers which he co-produced at the Perimeter Institute
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John O'Leary on Popular, Informal Education
Big Ideas presents John O'Leary, the President of Frontier College ...
Big Ideas presents John O'Leary, the President of Frontier College on Popular, Informal Education: From the Archives of Frontier College
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The Age of Unequals: An Evening with Richard Wilkinson
Armine Yalnizyan, Jordan Peterson, and Matthew Mendelsohn join epidemiologist Richard ...
Armine Yalnizyan, Jordan Peterson, and Matthew Mendelsohn join epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson to discuss why equality is better for everyone, the theme of Wilkinson's book, The Spirit Level
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Robert K. Logan on The Origin and Evolution of Language
University of Toronto Physics professor Robert K. Logan on The ...
University of Toronto Physics professor Robert K. Logan on The Origin and Evolution of Language and the Emergence of Concepts
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Marcus Chown on 10 Bonkers Things About the Universe
Marcus Chown of New Scientist Magazine on his Top 10 ...
Marcus Chown of New Scientist Magazine on his Top 10 Bonkers Things About the Universe
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Kevin B. Anderson, Janet Afary on The Seductions of Islamism
Kevin B. Anderson and Janet Afary on their book The ...
Kevin B. Anderson and Janet Afary on their book The Seductions of Islamism: Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
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Renate Loll on the Quantum Origins of Space and Time
Renate Loll from Utrecht University's Institute for Theoretical Physics delivers ...
Renate Loll from Utrecht University's Institute for Theoretical Physics delivers a lecture on Searching for the Quantum Origins of Space and Time. The lecture was recorded at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, on May 5, 2010.
