June 2009
David Cayley concludes his series with guest Nicholas Maxwell, a philosopher, retired from University College London. He's the author of Is Science Neurotic? and From...
The words, "We are a Metis nation" open John Ralston Saul's recent book, A Fair Country. In the 2009 UBC-Laurier Institution Multiculturalism Lecture, he argues...
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True famine is rarer than you might think. Most people in famine-prone lands have learned to adapt to nature's fickle ways. Food shortages and starvation...
For decades men have donated sperm for baby-making. But in recent years egg donation has become a growing business and concern. Moms-in-waiting can purchase tourism...
David Cayley talks to Theoretical Physicist Lee Smolin talks about his book The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of Science...
What kind of leadership will Canada need to help us deal with such issues as the economy and the environment? Sheila Watt-Cloutier discusses how we...
As a political philosophy, liberalism has been on the defensive for a long time, especially in the United States. Now it is in the ascendance....
It's not a sport; it's a test of character. It's a good walk spoiled. Golf has inspired a great literature - including works of fiction,...
For decades men have donated sperm for baby-making. But in recent years egg donation has become a growing business and concern. Moms-in-waiting can purchase tourism...
Medical anthropologist Allan Young of McGill's Department of Social Studies of Medicine discusses his book The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.Read more about...
How did this show slip through the screen door? IDEAS producer Dave Redel scratches at humanity's burning question: what's the deal with mosquitoes?...
Noah Richler talks to artists, bankers, philosophers, politicians and religious figures as he investigates the concept of 'Trust' and how we confuse this principle with...
John Adams is one of the world's leading classical composers of today. Eleanor Wachtel talks to John Adams about being a child musical prodigy, why...
"Be it resolved foreign aid does more harm than good.". The debaters are: Dambisa Moyo, anti-foreign aid advocate and author of Dead Aid: Why Aid...
Christopher Norris of the University of Cardiff will talk about what he sees as a drift away from belief in the objective validity of scientific...
With spring now underway: an hour of gardening, botany and the stories brought to mind by a tiny downtown garden in Toronto. A book written...
What's in a memory? An original in the field of memory research, Endel Tulving shares his insights. Mental time-travel through what he terms "episodic memory"...
Take a journey back in time when humans and animals spoke the same language, when humans survived because of lessons learned from the animals. From...
Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition in conversation with two masters of word: Anne Enright, novelist and winner of the Booker Prize talks with...
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