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Q | Feb 28, 2013
Giorgi Gogia, from Human Rights Watch, on how a novel about a friendship between two Azerbaijani men and their Armenian neighbours made the author a target in his own country. Legendary Canadian comedian Martin Short on his life, career and unique role promoting Canadian talent. Writer Peter Frase on defending rude service.
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The Current | Feb 28, 2013
Head to YouTube and you can watch dozens of scenarios to a problem with older or elderly drivers. Statistically,drivers aged 80-plus almost have the accident rate of the most dangerous driving demographic ... the under 24s. And in Sudbury they are the target of a police tip-line urging other drivers to call in to report any seemingly erratic or dangerous elderly driver. Simple public safety in action? Or age discrimination?
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Mainstreet NS | Mar 1, 2013
A team led by our oceans guy, Boris Worm, has found that about 100 million sharks die every year, and the biggest preventable culprit is fishing. He explains the significance of his finding.
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And the Winner Is | Feb 26, 2013
As a boy in pre-war Austria, Georg Tintner played the piano, sang with the Vienna Boys Choir, and composed his own music. By the time World War Two broke out, he was also a conductor. But Georg Tintner was a conductor with Jewish roots. And so, after the Anschluss in 1938, he was fired. By 1942, Mr. Tintner made his way to New Zealand, and for the better part of the next forty-five years of his life, he served as a conductor across New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. But in 1987, he moved to Halifax, where he would leave his mark as the conductor of Symphony Nova Scotia. He died in Halifax on October 2, 1999.
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Tapestry | Feb 22, 2013
We take a look at how doubt and skepticism can be essential ingredients to faith. Mary meets Rabbi Rami Shapiro - a rabbi who says he isn't religious, but rather a curious, holy rascal. She also talks to Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic Magazine. He's held his own against Deepak Chopra in a go round on consciousness and quantum physics.
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Feb 8, 2013 | 53:58Ideas Brain Bang Theory AudioIdeas Brain Bang Theory Feb 8, 2013 | 53:58Dr. Charles Tator grew up loving hockey. Now, as an eminent neurosurgeon, scientist and researcher, he must face the patients and the families of those who suffer from concussions, spinal cord injury and disability. He's learned a lot about traumatic sports injuries and he sits down with IDEAS host Paul Kennedy to tell Canadians what they might not want to hear.
Feb 7, 2013 | 53:59Ideas The Games of Olympia AudioIdeas The Games of Olympia Feb 7, 2013 | 53:59One year from today - on February 7th, 2014 - the 22nd Olympic Winter Games begin in Sochi, Russia. As the countdown begins, IDEAS takes you back in time to Ancient Greece to see what the very first Olympic Games - known then as the Olympic struggles - were really like. This IDEAS classic, from 1988, was by historian and classicist Brent Shaw.
Feb 6, 2013 | 53:59Ideas Imagination, Part 2 (Encore October 18, 2012) AudioIdeas Imagination, Part 2 (Encore October 18, 2012) Feb 6, 2013 | 53:59The poet William Blake claimed that the imagination is our highest faculty and central to our perception and experience of reality. More than two hundred years later, scientific research on the brain and creativity confirms the great poet's insight. IDEAS producer Frank Faulk explores the key role the imagination plays in our lives.
Feb 5, 2013 | 53:59Ideas Imagination, Part 1 (Encore October 17, 2012) AudioIdeas Imagination, Part 1 (Encore October 17, 2012) Feb 5, 2013 | 53:59The poet William Blake claimed that the imagination is our highest faculty and central to our perception and experience of reality. More than two hundred years later, scientific research on the brain and creativity confirms the great poet's insight. IDEAS producer Frank Faulk explores the key role the imagination plays in our lives.
Feb 4, 2013 | 53:59Ideas The Enright Files - The Police Procedural AudioIdeas The Enright Files - The Police Procedural Feb 4, 2013 | 53:59What makes a mystery novel more than a guilty pleasure?
Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, in conversation with two masters of the police procedural: Swedish writer Henning Mankell and American novelist Craig Johnson.
Feb 1, 2013 | 53:59Ideas Iron Curtain AudioIdeas Iron Curtain Feb 1, 2013 | 53:59In 1945, at the end of World War II, an Iron Curtain rolled over Eastern Europe. Stalin, his allies and the secret police set out to seize control over a dozen countries and turn them into communist states. IDEAS host Paul Kennedy speaks with journalist and author Anne Applebaum about the harrowing story of how millions became imprisoned and how their daily lives were brutally crushed.
Jan 31, 2013 | 53:59Ideas The Science of Morality, Part 2 (Encore October 10, 2012) AudioIdeas The Science of Morality, Part 2 (Encore October 10, 2012) Jan 31, 2013 | 53:59How do we know right from wrong? For centuries, religion and philosophy tried to provide answers. Now psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology are weighing in. What can science tell us about our moral beliefs? And where, exactly, do morals come from? Science journalist Dan Falk investigates.
Jan 30, 2013 | 54:00Ideas The Science of Morality, Part 1 (Encore October 3, 2012) AudioIdeas The Science of Morality, Part 1 (Encore October 3, 2012) Jan 30, 2013 | 54:00How do we know right from wrong? For centuries, religion and philosophy tried to provide answers. Now psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology are weighing in. What can science tell us about our moral beliefs? And where, exactly, do morals come from? Science journalist Dan Falk investigates.
Jan 29, 2013 | 53:59Ideas Back To The Future in Fogo AudioIdeas Back To The Future in Fogo Jan 29, 2013 | 53:59As a young woman, Zita Cobb left her birthplace - the relatively remote island of Fogo, off the east coast of Newfoundland - to get an education, and ultimately to find her fortune. Not long ago, she returned to invest that considerable fortune turning Fogo into a place of pilgrimage for artists. IDEAS host Paul Kennedy takes a tour with guide Zita Cobb.
Jan 28, 2013 | 53:57Ideas Paying for Parking AudioIdeas Paying for Parking Jan 28, 2013 | 53:57We engineer our roads to accommodate traffic, but cars and other vehicles spend almost all their time parked. All those parking spaces - and finding them - cause huge economic, environmental, and even social problems. Dave Redel searches for a good spot to survey the situation.
Jan 25, 2013 | 53:59Ideas Valley of the Deer AudioIdeas Valley of the Deer Jan 25, 2013 | 53:59Canadian video artist Jillian McDonald spent much of the past year as 'artist in residence' at Glenfiddich Distillery, in the highlands of Scotland. As a Burns' Night tribute to both Art and Whisky, IDEAS host Paul Kennedy visits her in Dufftown, and watches while she makes single-malted art.
Jan 24, 2013 | 53:59Ideas A Serpent's Tale (Encore June 15, 2012) AudioIdeas A Serpent's Tale (Encore June 15, 2012) Jan 24, 2013 | 53:59IDEAS contributor Hassan Ghedi Santur discusses the mysterious evolutionary history of snakes and their fearsome reputation. Along the way, he confronts his own case of ophidiophobia - you guessed it: the "abnormal fear of snakes."
Jan 23, 2013 | 53:59Ideas Genius Born of Anguish, Part 3 AudioIdeas Genius Born of Anguish, Part 3 Jan 23, 2013 | 53:59"The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection," said Henri Nouwen, Catholic priest, teacher and gay celibate. He has been called a psychologist of the soul. Born in Holland in 1932, Nouwen wrote thirty-nine books about spirituality. A profile by Michael Higgins based on Nouwen's writings, interviews with those who knew him, and archival recordings of Nouwen himself.
Jan 22, 2013 | 54:00Ideas Iceberg Ship Habbakuk (Encore September 17, 2012) AudioIdeas Iceberg Ship Habbakuk (Encore September 17, 2012) Jan 22, 2013 | 54:001942: Hitler's U-Boats are ravaging merchant ships that Britain depends on for its survival. Enter a plan, for a gigantic warship, to help the Allies win the Battle of the Atlantic. It will be built in Canada and made from ... ice! Richard Longley tells the story of iceberg ship Habbakuk, in all its icy eccentricity
Jan 21, 2013 | 53:58Ideas Vasari's Most Eminent Lives AudioIdeas Vasari's Most Eminent Lives Jan 21, 2013 | 53:58In 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 lies, his book is still the source on Leonardo, Michelangelo, and many others. Tony Luppino leafs through Vasari's Lives to see how it still shapes our ideas of art.