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.
Steve Joordens from the Psychology Department at the University of Toronto Scarborough presents his competition lecture en... more
Eleanor MacDonald from the Political Studies Department at Queen's University presents her competition lecture entitled Ar... more
As part of his Literature for Our Time series, English professor Nick Mount discusses Virginia Woolf?s novel To the Lighth... more
At the 2009 Darwin conference entitled Origin of Species at 150, philosophy professor Michael Ruse asks Is Darwinism Past ... more
Art historian, Francis Broun, delivers an informative and entertaining lecture on the sculptures of Michelangelo. Broun is... more
In her best-selling book, Dead Aid, economist Dambisa Moyo, argues that aid to Africa breeds corruption and dependence and... more
While the theory of evolution is credited to Charles Darwin, important contributions were also made by Henry Walter Bates ... more
Best-selling author Harold Kushner on his latest book Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World. more
Anthropologist and author, Wade Davis, delivers the 2009 Massey Lecture entitled The Wayfinders more
Dr. Peter Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, a non-profit initiative focused on designing and la... more
