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.

Sat Sep 12 17:00:00 PDT 2009

MIT professor of Linguistics, Noam Chomsky, delivers his 2002 lecture on international policy continuity in the wake of 9-... more

Sat Sep 05 17:00:00 PDT 2009

Stanford University professor of Physics, Leonard Susskind, on ?The Black Hole Wars?, the scientific disagreement between ... more

Sat Aug 29 17:00:00 PDT 2009

Author Elizabeth Abbott on her 2003 book A History of Mistresses. more

Sat Aug 22 17:00:00 PDT 2009

Author Elaine Dewar delivers her 2002 lecture about her book The Second Tree: Of Clones, Chimeras and Quests for Immortali... more

Sat Aug 15 17:00:00 PDT 2009

The author of Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan, delivers her 2003 lecture Making Peace is Harder than Making War. more

Sat Aug 08 17:00:00 PDT 2009

Harvard University professor of History, Niall Ferguson, delivers his 2002 lecture on the lessons the US ought to learn fr... more

Sat Aug 01 17:00:00 PDT 2009

Columbia University professor of Sociology, Saskia Sassen, delivers her 2003 lecture on the concept of citizenship in the ... more

Sat Jul 25 17:00:00 PDT 2009

Professor of Genome Sciences and of Medicine, Dr. Maynard Olson delivers his 2003 lecture, companion piece to the Francis ... more

Sat Jul 25 17:00:00 PDT 2009

The leader of the Human Genome Project, Dr. Francis S. Collins delivers his 2003 high school lecture entitled The Genome a... more

Sat Jul 18 17:00:00 PDT 2009

Harvard University Psychology professor, Steven Pinker delivers a lecture on the modern denial of human nature with a spec... more

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