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.
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.
Nov 7, 2011 | 53:59Ideas Winter: Five Windows on the Season, Part 1 AudioIdeas Winter: Five Windows on the Season, Part 1 Nov 7, 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.
Oct 13, 2011 | 53:58Ideas 2010: Player One, Part 1 AudioIdeas 2010: Player One, Part 1 Oct 13, 2011 | 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, 2011 | 53:59Ideas 2007: The City of Words, Part 5 AudioIdeas 2007: The City of Words, Part 5 Oct 13, 2011 | 53:59The end of ethnic nationalism, building societies around sets of common values, seems like a good idea. But something is going wrong. In the 2007 Massey Lectures, writer Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at some of the problems we face, and suggests we should look at what stories have to teach us about society.
Oct 13, 2011 | 54:00Ideas 2007: The City of Words, Part 4 AudioIdeas 2007: The City of Words, Part 4 Oct 13, 2011 | 54:00The end of ethnic nationalism, building societies around sets of common values, seems like a good idea. But something is going wrong. In the 2007 Massey Lectures, writer Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at some of the problems we face, and suggests we should look at what stories have to teach us about society.
Oct 13, 2011 | 53:59Ideas 2007: The City of Words, Part 3 AudioIdeas 2007: The City of Words, Part 3 Oct 13, 2011 | 53:59The end of ethnic nationalism, building societies around sets of common values, seems like a good idea. But something is going wrong. In the 2007 Massey Lectures, writer Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at some of the problems we face, and suggests we should look at what stories have to teach us about society.
Oct 13, 2011 | 53:59Ideas 2007: The City of Words, Part 2 AudioIdeas 2007: The City of Words, Part 2 Oct 13, 2011 | 53:59The end of ethnic nationalism, building societies around sets of common values, seems like a good idea. But something is going wrong. In the 2007 Massey Lectures, writer Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at some of the problems we face, and suggests we should look at what stories have to teach us about society.
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