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Nov 16, 2012 | 53:59Ideas The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos - Part 5 AudioIdeas The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos - Part 5 Nov 16, 2012 | 53:59All the technologies we use and depend on are the products of the amazing human mind. Our curiosity drives us to seek out the underlying laws of the universe, and the more we learn the better our lives become. But we're arriving at an impasse, says physicist Neil Turok: the more we learn, the more contradictory the laws seem to be. We need new ideas and new ways of thinking to go beyond the horizon.
Mar 21, 2012 | 3:56Ideas The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos - Part 4 AudioIdeas The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos - Part 4 Mar 21, 2012 | 3:56Excerpt: On the Equation
Mar 21, 2012 | 4:08Ideas The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos - Part 3 AudioIdeas The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos - Part 3 Mar 21, 2012 | 4:08Excerpt: Comprehending the Universe
Mar 21, 2012 | 4:08Ideas The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos - Part 2 AudioIdeas The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos - Part 2 Mar 21, 2012 | 4:08Excerpt: Free Thinking
Mar 21, 2012 | 4:14Ideas The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos - Part 1 AudioIdeas The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos - Part 1 Mar 21, 2012 | 4:14Excerpt: Human Problems
Nov 11, 2011 | 53:59Ideas Winter: Five Windows on the Season - Part 5 AudioIdeas Winter: Five Windows on the Season - Part 5 Nov 11, 2011 | 53:59The CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik. Winter: Five Windows on the Season, is a wide-ranging yet intimate tour of the season that shows how science, economics, psychology and religion made for a new and modern idea of winter.
Nov 10, 2011 | 53:59Ideas Winter: Five Windows on the Season - Part 4 AudioIdeas Winter: Five Windows on the Season - Part 4 Nov 10, 2011 | 53:59The CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik. Winter: Five Windows on the Season, is a wide-ranging yet intimate tour of the season that shows how science, economics, psychology and religion made for a new and modern idea of winter.
Nov 9, 2011 | 53:59Ideas Winter: Five Windows on the Season - Part 3 AudioIdeas Winter: Five Windows on the Season - Part 3 Nov 9, 2011 | 53:59The CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik. Winter: Five Windows on the Season, is a wide-ranging yet intimate tour of the season that shows how science, economics, psychology and religion made for a new and modern idea of winter.
Nov 8, 2011 | 53:59Ideas Winter: Five Windows on the Season - Part 2 AudioIdeas Winter: Five Windows on the Season - Part 2 Nov 8, 2011 | 53:59The CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik. Winter: Five Windows on the Season, is a wide-ranging yet intimate tour of the season that shows how science, economics, psychology and religion made for a new and modern idea of winter.
Ideas Player One - Part 1 Oct 13, 2010 | 53:58Player One: What is To Become of Us? by Douglas Coupland. For the first time in their history, the CBC Massey Lectures is a work of fiction. In an airport lounge in the very near future, four people are marooned when a kind of apocalypse strikes. Sealed in, the four can only talk to each other, examining their lives and the meaning of love. Thick ash falls from the sky. Cell phones don't work. What is to become of us? In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J.G. Ballard, Douglas Coupland locates his story and characters in an extreme situation and then pushes the implications as far as possible.
Oct 13, 2010 | 53:57Ideas Player One - Part 2 AudioIdeas Player One - Part 2 Oct 13, 2010 | 53:57For the first time in their history, the CBC Massey Lectures is a work of fiction. In an airport lounge in the very near future, four people are marooned when a kind of apocalypse strikes. Sealed in, the four can only talk to each other, examining their lives and the meaning of love. Thick ash falls from the sky. Cell phones don't work. What is to become of us? In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J.G. Ballard, Douglas Coupland locates his story and characters in an extreme situation and then pushes the implications as far as possible.
Oct 13, 2010 | 53:56Ideas Player One - Part 3 AudioIdeas Player One - Part 3 Oct 13, 2010 | 53:56For the first time in their history, the CBC Massey Lectures is a work of fiction. In an airport lounge in the very near future, four people are marooned when a kind of apocalypse strikes. Sealed in, the four can only talk to each other, examining their lives and the meaning of love. Thick ash falls from the sky. Cell phones don't work. What is to become of us? In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J.G. Ballard, Douglas Coupland locates his story and characters in an extreme situation and then pushes the implications as far as possible.
Oct 13, 2010 | 53:58Ideas Player One - Part 4 AudioIdeas Player One - Part 4 Oct 13, 2010 | 53:58For the first time in their history, the CBC Massey Lectures is a work of fiction. In an airport lounge in the very near future, four people are marooned when a kind of apocalypse strikes. Sealed in, the four can only talk to each other, examining their lives and the meaning of love. Thick ash falls from the sky. Cell phones don't work. What is to become of us? In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J.G. Ballard, Douglas Coupland locates his story and characters in an extreme situation and then pushes the implications as far as possible.
Oct 13, 2010 | 53:57Ideas Player One - Part 5 AudioIdeas Player One - Part 5 Oct 13, 2010 | 53:57For the first time in their history, the CBC Massey Lectures is a work of fiction. In an airport lounge in the very near future, four people are marooned when a kind of apocalypse strikes. Sealed in, the four can only talk to each other, examining their lives and the meaning of love. Thick ash falls from the sky. Cell phones don't work. What is to become of us? In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J.G. Ballard, Douglas Coupland locates his story and characters in an extreme situation and then pushes the implications as far as possible.
Nov 7, 2009 | 53:59Ideas The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World - Part 1 AudioIdeas The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World - Part 1 Nov 7, 2009 | 53:59Anthropologist Wade Davis argues that the myriad of cultures that make up our world are “humanity’s greatest legacy…the product of our dreams, the embodiment of our hopes, the symbol of all we are and all that we have created as a wildly inquisitive and astonishingly adaptive species.” In the 2009 Massey Lectures, Wade Davis takes us on an astonishing journey through some of the great cultures and civilizations on earth, fragile and endangered, yet essential to our survival as a species.
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