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Newest Episode: Sat February 11, 2012. 04:30 AM
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-bite television norm. The simple, bold concept is a victory of substance over style. Big Ideas airs Saturdays and Sundays at 4:00 PM EST on TVO - Canada's largest educational broadcaster.
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Sat September 20, 2008. 09:00 PM
"Time and Einstein in the 21st Century: The Coolest Stuff in the Universe" is the title of this exceptionally entertaining lecture. Phillips, who works with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, demonstrates the cooling potential of liquid nitrogen, the laser based technique known as "optical molasses" and shows how magnetic bottles can help science built more accurate atomic clocks.
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Sat September 13, 2008. 09:00 PM
Professor Richard C. Lewontin of Harvard University delivers a lecture on the topic of The Co-evolution of Organisms and the Environment.
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Sat September 06, 2008. 09:00 PM
Alberto Manguel on the duality of Pablo Picasso's artistic brilliance and personal evil.
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Sat August 30, 2008. 09:00 PM
Dr. Guy Proulx, Director of Psychology and NeuroRehabilitation at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care delivers a lecture entitled, Wisdom Versus Dementia: A Walk Through the Aging Brain.
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Sat August 23, 2008. 09:00 PM
Kay Redfield Jamison of Johns Hopkins University gives a lecture about suicide drawing on the research from her book, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide.
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Sat August 16, 2008. 09:00 PM
Lee Smolin of Perimeter Institute delivers his lecture, Why Does Science Work?
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Sat August 09, 2008. 09:00 PM
Mark Kingwell delivers a lecture on Representations of the Intellectual in Everyday Life. Has pop culture ruined the intellectual?
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Sat August 02, 2008. 09:00 PM
Zach Hall - Dean of Research at the School of Medicine of University of Southern California discusses, Neuroethics: A Challenge for a New Age.
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Sat July 26, 2008. 09:00 PM
Dr. Leon Kass, Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics, examines the distinct ethical dilemmas that surround stem cell research. Dr. Kass addresses a fundamental philosophical question: Why not immortality?
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Sat July 19, 2008. 09:00 PM
Clifford Will delivers a lecture entitled, "Was Einstein Right? Can Einstein?s Theories Survive Today?s Scientific Scrutiny?"
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Sat July 12, 2008. 09:00 PM
Wendy Steiner, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania presents a lecture based on her book The Trouble with Beauty.
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Sat July 05, 2008. 09:00 PM
Arthur I. Miller compares Einstein to Picasso. Miller is the author of a book entitled "Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc".
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Sat June 28, 2008. 09:00 PM
Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and best-selling author, Dr. Norman Doidge, discusses the findings in his latest book, The Brain that Changes Itself, an examination of brain neuroplasticity.
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Sat June 21, 2008. 09:00 PM
Howard Gardner is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is the author of "Five Minds for the Future". In this lecture he discusses his latest theories on cognition and creativity and outlines why he is currently researching what place the "ethical mind" and the "respectful mind" hold in today's technologically sophisticated and interrelated world.
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Sat June 14, 2008. 09:00 PM
Business journalist Andrea Mandel-Campbell, author of "Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson", discusses her views on why Canadian corporations have failed to take advantage of the benefits of globalization and emerging markets, a trend that she believes has led to the takeover of many Canadian companies by foreign multinationals.
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Sat June 14, 2008. 09:00 PM
John Stape, the author of "The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad", outlines the ways in which his book, released to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the novelist's birth, differs from earlier biographies of Conrad.
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Sat June 07, 2008. 09:30 PM
Journalist Hamida Ghafour on her book "The Sleeping Buddha: Portraits of a Changing Afghanistan".
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Sat June 07, 2008. 09:00 PM
A lecture by Marina Nemat, author of "Prisoner of Tehran".
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Sat May 31, 2008. 09:00 PM
Michael Eric Dyson, the author of "April 4, 1968", discusses the life and death of Martin Luther King as they pertain to race issues in the U.S. and around the world. 40 years after King's assassination, the race for the leadership of the Democratic Party has returned issues of race to the forefront of American politics and Dyson uses his book as a springboard to examine Barack Obama's candidacy and what it means for America.
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Sat May 24, 2008. 09:00 PM
Architect and author, Charles Jencks, presents a lecture based on his recent book "Critical Modernism: Where is Post-Modernism Going?"
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