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| Jan. 29, 1996 | Jan. 30, 1996 | Jan. 31, 1996 | Feb. 1, 1996 | Feb. 2, 1996 |
| See January Calendar | IF WE CAN PUT A MAN ON THE MOON...* why can't we find the cure for cancer? We've spent billions of dollars, and some of the finest minds of this century have devoted their lives to the task. But instead of conquering cancer the results represent the single greatest disappointment in the history of scientific thought. Cancer mortality rates refuse to budge. And public confidence in the medical profession's ability to tackle cancer is at its lowest point in this century. Toronto journalist Marjorie Nichol looks at where the war on cancer has gone wrong, and examines some new ideas about what to do now. | CRITIC ON THE HEARTH Playwright Bernard Shaw was a closet musician, and during the 1890's an influential music critic. Sometimes adopting the pseudonym "Corno di Bassetto", Shaw took no prisoners when he wrote his deliberately opinionated but logically reasoned reviews. | ||
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| Feb. 5, 1996 | Feb. 6, 1996 | Feb. 7, 1996 | Feb. 8, 1996 | Feb. 9, 1996 |
| A WORLD OF IDEAS 1979: Joe Clark replaces Trudeau - briefly. The Shah exits Iran and Khomeini takes control - and American hostages. Eleven fans trampled at a Who concert. Voyager 1 examines Jupiter's ring. On IDEAS: Gwynne Dyer muses about war and the Massey Lecturer, Jane Jacobs, talks about Canadian cities and sovereignty association. | NAMIBIA: ON THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY* Five years ago, the struggle for independence in Namibia ended. The South African flag came down, and the hard work of dismantling apartheid began. Dale Ratcliffe travels Namibia, chronicling the changes, the hopes and concerns of the people who live there. | Part IV of MODES OF THOUGHT * People have different styles of thought. Children think differently from adults; cultures and historical epochs differ as well. But how are these differences to be understood? Until recently, the existence of distinct mentalities was widely accepted. Literate and scientific modes of thought were opposed to more primitive modes. But contemporary scholars reject a hierarchical arrangement of thought styles. In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions for example, Thomas Kuhn suggested that science is practiced within "paradigms", comprehensive modes of thought that virtually determine what counts as fact. But does this mean that science is not really a rational activity at all? That's one of the questions raised in this investigation of how modes of thought should be described and distinguished. The series was recorded at an interdisciplinary meeting of anthropologists, historians of ideas, philosophers of science and cognitive psychologists in Toronto. David Cayley reports on how we think and the distinctions between different ways of thinking. | Part II of IF WE CAN PUT A MAN ON THE MOON...* For program description see above | CRITIC ON THE HEARTH The great champion of atonality Arnold Schoenberg was equally at home with the printed word. Stern and self-disciplined, he brought new forms of musical expression to his students in Vienna -- and to the world. |
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| Feb. 12, 1996 | Feb. 13, 1996 | Feb. 14, 1996 | Feb. 15, 1996 | Feb. 16, 1996 |
| A WORLD OF IDEAS 1980: Trudeau is resurrected. Mount St. Helen's erupts. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan heats cold war tensions. The American hostages still languish in Iran and John Lennon is shot dead. On IDEAS: Marshall McLuhan, consumerism, the information society, our human origins -- new ideas about where we're going and what we're really in for. | SOWETO: SO WHERE TO? Free at last? Musician and writer Sifiso Ntuli came to Canada thirteen years ago as an exile. He returns to South Africa to find out what has changed since last year's historic election, and to ask the survivors of apartheid, "What is freedom?" | LOVE AND THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES* For centuries, artists have celebrated love and manuals instructed us in how to conduct the unruly passion. Now, anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists speak. Sparks fly. IDEAS producer Marilyn Powell looks at the evolution and tradition of romantic love. | CITY OF BITS* Bill Mitchell's book: hyperextended habitat.virtualgatheringplaces.21st centurybitsphere.politicaleconomyof cyberspace.softcities.bodilypresenc e?computersmeldintobuildingswhichbe comecomputers.bitspherecivicdesign. cyborgtelepresence.informationinfra structures.gizmotictechnotoys.value. | CRITIC ON THE HEARTH He was a pianist, scholar and composer, but Sir Donald Francis Tovey is best remembered as a writer. His music essays in The Encyclopedia Britannica and Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians are his legacy. |
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| Feb. 19, 1996 | Feb. 20, 1996 | Feb. 21, 1996 | Feb. 22, 1996 | Feb. 23, 1996 |
| A WORLD OF IDEAS 1981:Charles marries Di. Sadat is assassinated; Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II are shot but live. AIDS is discovered. Columbus, the first re-usable spacecraft, is launched. IBM sells the first home computers, and the hostages in Iran are finally released. IDEAS examines the sciences, the world of women, Canadian disunity, Pablo Neruda and witch-hunts. | EXPLORING THE NATURE OF DISCOVERY* Science provides insights into how our world works. But the process of discovery remains largely a mystery. Science writer Colman Jones talks with scientist Robert Scott Root-Bernstein about the nature of scientific creativity. | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS* A dozen Nobel Prize scientists are in Toronto to give talks about how and why they do science, and what the consequences are. We hear James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA, on the Human Genome Project. UBC's Michael Smith developed a genetic technique that can do in a test-tube what evolution has been doing for millions of years. Max Perutz discovered the structure of hemoglobin. George Porter says that genetic engineers will breed plants that can meet all the energy needs on earth. and Christian de Duve says that the universe must be full of life, even if we haven't seen it yet. | CRITIC ON THE HEARTH Ideas on all subjects poured from his pen, then sprang from his mouth when Richard Wagner read them to a captive audience of family and friends. Eccentric, self-seeking, brilliant, there's no middle ground with this composer-critic. | |
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| Feb. 26, 1996 | Feb. 27, 1996 | Feb. 28, 1996 | Feb. 29, 1996 | Mar 1, 1996 |
| A WORLD OF IDEAS 1982: Canada repatriates its constitution. Glenn Gould dies. The Pope meets with Arafat in Rome. The Vietnam War Memorial in Washington is dedicated. On IDEAS: Alan Wolfe on The Crisis in Liberal Democracies; Robert J. Lifton, E.P. Thompson and Ursula Franklin on nuclear war and peace. | PUBLIC SPACES: PRIVATE DREAMS* A group of teenagers hang out at the mall; an old person sits on a park bench; an office worker gazes at a street scene from a cafe table. Writer Jenifer Sutherland looks at how certain urban spaces shape our thoughts and how, in turn, our thoughts shape them. | LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY* Historian and art critic Simon Schama discusses the major themes of his recent bestseller. What do we see in our mind's eye when we talk about the forest primeval, or the river of life, or the sacred mountain? Are they myths or were they once real places? | THE SHAPE OF THINGS* Believe it or not, somebody designed that uncomfortable chair you're sitting in, and your building, and this calendar. This program about appearance, function, comfort and impact features Mexican architect Enrique Norton, American graphic designer Milton Glaser and others. | See March Calendar |