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.
MIT professor of Linguistics, Noam Chomsky, delivers his 2002 lecture on international policy continuity in the wake of 9-... more
Stanford University professor of Physics, Leonard Susskind, on ?The Black Hole Wars?, the scientific disagreement between ... more
Author Elaine Dewar delivers her 2002 lecture about her book The Second Tree: Of Clones, Chimeras and Quests for Immortali... more
The author of Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan, delivers her 2003 lecture Making Peace is Harder than Making War. more
Harvard University professor of History, Niall Ferguson, delivers his 2002 lecture on the lessons the US ought to learn fr... more
Columbia University professor of Sociology, Saskia Sassen, delivers her 2003 lecture on the concept of citizenship in the ... more
Professor of Genome Sciences and of Medicine, Dr. Maynard Olson delivers his 2003 lecture, companion piece to the Francis ... more
The leader of the Human Genome Project, Dr. Francis S. Collins delivers his 2003 high school lecture entitled The Genome a... more
Harvard University Psychology professor, Steven Pinker delivers a lecture on the modern denial of human nature with a spec... more
