Big Ideas
Big Ideas
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.
Cultural historian and author, Margaret Visser, explores the history and significance of gratitude. more
University of Toronto Professor of Psychology Jordan Peterson discusses the nature of evil and its distinction from traged... more
Dr. Kirk Schneider explores therapeutic approaches to the mystery of being in a lecture delivered at an International Conf... more
Dr. Ernesto Spinelli delivers a lecture "Exploring Death Anxiety" at an International Conference on Personal Meaning more
Author and scholar, Thomas Homer-Dixon, explores the convergence of natural, social, and economic stresses that could lead... more
"No Educator Left Behind" is the title of this lecture by Mark Federman. In it Federman contends that, as a result of the ... more
Political science professor Ron Deibert looks at the issue of internet censorship and surveillance around the world. more
Best-selling author, Richard Florida, describes how the creative class is impacting cities, business and society at large. more
Ronald Wright, the author of , examines the dichotomy between "America's ideals and the realities". Wright discusses how s... more
Leanne Simpson of Athabasca University's Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and Research delivers a lecture entitled, "... more
