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Big Ideas - Season 2011

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Big Ideas is a Canadian television series produced and broadcast by TVOntario, on the air since 2001. The program showcases public intellectual culture. It was conceived by Wodek Szemberg who continues to serve as producer of the program. The show presents public lectures by acclaimed university educators and other distinguished guests. The show is intended for a general audience. The original host, Irshad Manji, was succeeded by Canadian actor/director/playwright Andrew Moodie on 2006-01-07. In September 2011 Piya Chattopadhyay took over as host. Big Ideas airs on TVOntario on Saturday and Sunday at 5 PM, with repeat airings at 5:00 AM on Sunday and Monday morning. In 2007, Big Ideas held its Best Lecturer competition for the second time. Dr. Michael Persinger, from Laurentian University, received the best-lecturer award. Podcasts of the current lectures are available through the Big Ideas website as well as from iTunes.

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First Air Date: Jan 01, 1970

Last Air date: Jan 04, 2013

Season: 8 Season

Episode: 62 Episode

Runtime: 26 minutes

IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0.00 users

Popularity: 0.3087

Language: English

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Episode Simon Winchester on The Man Who Loved China Jordan Peterson on The Necessity of Virtue Chris Hedges on The Death of the Liberal Class Daniel Dennett: What Should Replace Religions? PZ Myers: Science and Atheism: Natural Allies Derek Walcott Seth Lloyd on Quantum Life Richard Wilkinson on The Spirit Level Robert Adams on The Elegance of the Hedgehog David Sloan Wilson on Religion and Other Meaning Systems Nick Mount on cartoonist Seth Ian Hacking on the Mathematical Animal Hod Lipson on The Robotic Scientist Michael Adams Sara Seager on Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds Rupinder Brar on The Impact of Astronomy Robert Adams on The Forgotten Rod Carley on Theatre in the 21st Century: Touchstone to Humanity Piergiorgio Odifreddi: What Can the Arts Do for Mathematics? Christopher W. diCarlo on The New Ethics Cory Doctorow: Why it's a Bad Idea to Regulate Computers Michael Persinger: No More Secrets Armine Yalnizyan on Economics, Equality and Democracy Arne Kislenko on Southeast Asia and the Cold War Charles Foran: Mordecai Richler and the Challenge to Nationalism Noam Chomsky on Academic Freedom Can We Live Without the Sacred? Stephen Hawking: The Power of Ideas David Keith on Technology, Energy and Nature Jeff Melanson on the Evolving Role of the Arts in Canada Freeman Dyson on Living Through Four Revolutions John Gray: The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death Thomas Homer-Dixon: Civilization Far from Equilibrium: Energy, Complexity & Human Survival Noam Chomsky on The State-Corporate Complex Leonard Susskind: The World as Hologram Alex Himelfarb: How Did Taxes Become a Bad Word? Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Things to Come G.M. Tamas: The Failure of Liberal Democracy in Eastern Europe and Everywhere Else Liberty and the Arab Spring: Exploring Isaiah Berlin's Ideas in a Changing World Inequality: A Threat to Democracy? John Ibbitson: The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus Keith Devlin: Leonardo and Steve Stephen Hawking: The Power of Ideas (repeat version)