August 2012
Friday, August 31, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Research seems to indicate that we're genetically inclined to optimism. But what if we're too optimistic to deal with social problems? A Calgary forum mulls...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Anthropologist Jean Briggs lived with an Inuit family during the early 1960s, when she was doing research and writing about them for her doctoral thesis....
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
In their longhouses, the Cayuga tell stories of a world where hunters stalk a powerful bear in the sky, maple trees hold the secret to...
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Monday, August 27, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Red is passion and lust, courage and sacrifice. Blue is happy, or sad, or - in German - drunk. In India, yellow is said to...
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Monday, August 27, 2012 | Categories: Coming Up |
Monday, August 27 THE POWER OF COLOUR, Part 3 Red is passion and lust, courage and sacrifice. Blue is happy, or sad, or - in...
Friday, August 24, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Nowadays, wearing fashionable furs seems somewhat politically incorrect. But pelts and hides from beavers, raccoons and buffalo, and other animals, helped carve out the European...
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Thursday, August 23, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
How a deformed, child-murdering, wife-beating, psychopathic hand puppet became a cultural icon, a famous satirical magazine, and a four-century-old folkplay cherished by small children for...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Since appearing on the international stage in the 19th century, Zionism has evoked strong emotions, both positive and negative. Nowhere have its meaning and aims...
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Monday, August 20, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Red is passion and lust, courage and sacrifice. Blue is happy, or sad, or - in German - drunk. In India, yellow is said to...
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Monday, August 20, 2012 | Categories: Coming Up |
Monday, August 20 THE POWER OF COLOUR, Part 2 Red is passion and lust, courage and sacrifice. Blue is happy, or sad, or - in...
Friday, August 17, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Plate tectonics was a revolutionary scientific theory that shook our understanding of the planet. Chris Brookes and Paolo Pietropaolo take us to Newfoundland's Gros...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Arthur Koestler was a controversial journalist and thinker. He witnessed many of the 20th century's great upheavals, wars and revolutions. His influential anti-communist novel, Darkness...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Bound in red-leather, a hand-written and vividly illustrated manuscript by Carl Jung documents what he called his "confrontation with the unconscious," beginning around World War...
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Monday, August 13, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Red is passion and lust, courage and sacrifice. Blue is happy, or sad, or - in German - drunk. In India, yellow is said to...
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Monday, August 13, 2012 | Categories: Coming Up |
Monday, August 13 THE POWER OF COLOUR, Part 1 Red is passion and lust, courage and sacrifice. Blue is happy, or sad, or - in...
Friday, August 10, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
In the finale episode, Don Tapscott takes us into the public square to look at how governments must re-engage with citizens. This means leaving behind...
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Thursday, August 9, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
An ongoing annual series about the connection between Sport and Society, "Footprints 2012" takes IDEAS host Paul Kennedy to the Great Rift Valley, in Kenya....
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Harvard professor James Kugel is one of the world's leading biblical scholars. Ten years ago he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. His illness forced...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Alcoholism. Respiratory disease. Cancer. Obesity. We're told that these can be the results of genetics, stress and poor nutrition. But in recent years, an extraordinary,...
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Monday, August 6, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
A bronze bust of Pierre Bédard was recently unveiled in the Quebec National Assembly. Bédard was a journalist, politician, judge and nationalist leader of Lower...
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Monday, August 6, 2012 | Categories: Coming Up |
Monday, August 6 THE ART OF REASONING A bronze bust of Pierre Bédard was recently unveiled in the Quebec National Assembly. Bédard was a journalist,...
Friday, August 3, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
The digital revolution has cut transaction costs and changed the notion of the firm. Business has to operate collaboratively and transparently to meet the needs...
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Thursday, August 2, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Best-selling Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif (who wrote The Map of Love, which was nominated for the 1999 Booker Prize) talks with IDEAS host Paul Kennedy...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
In May, 2011, a Toronto family decided not to reveal the sex of their newborn baby. Only nine people in the world know whether baby...
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