Monday, May 20, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
For centuries human beings have been modifying their bodies - tribal scarification, tattoos and cosmetic surgery are just a few. Today, new technologies are enabling...
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Friday, May 17, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
The World Health Organization says depression is set to become second only to heart disease as the world's leading disability by the year 2020....
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Thursday, May 16, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Over the years, the descriptions have varied: melancholia, the Black Dog, down in the dumps. The term most used today is "depression". The World...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Depression. It has been called the mean reds. The blue devils. The black dog. And through history, treatments for depression have varied wildly. In...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Libyan novelist Hisham Matar was still a boy when his family fled to Cairo in order to escape the dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi. In a...
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Monday, May 13, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Our ideas about witches and witch hunts may come from an extraordinary manuscript found in the University of Alberta Library. It's one of only four...
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Friday, May 10, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
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...
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Thursday, May 9, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
At a time of widespread obsession with everything from money to celebrity to the latest in techno gadgetry, does the idea of idolatry have...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Anything you can do to make someone's life better, you must do. Right? But how much do you owe to other people, and who...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Calgary artist John Will's greatest work of art may be John Will himself. He is a trouble-maker, scamp, and rapscallion. Jim Brown takes us...
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Monday, May 6, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Two of this year's most momentous musical anniversaries are about spring. This month marks the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, and...
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Friday, May 3, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
In the mid-1500s, Giorgio Vasari's short biographies created art history, the artist as genius and even the "Renaissance". Although rife with inaccuracies and outright...
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Thursday, May 2, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
What happens when historians go searching for new evidence about the nation's past? It can change the way its citizens think about their country as...
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Anything you can do to make someone's life better, you must do. Right? But how much do you owe to other people, and who should...
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