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 3, 2009 | 1:15:54Ideas 2009: The Wayfinders - Part 1 AudioIdeas 2009: The Wayfinders - Part 1 Nov 3, 2009 | 1:15:54Anthropologist 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.
Oct 11, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2003: The Truth About Stories, Part 1 AudioIdeas 2003: The Truth About Stories, Part 1 Oct 11, 2011 | 54:22Beginning with Native oral stories, -winning author and scholar Thomas King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, in an effort to make sense of North America's relationship with its Aboriginal peoples.
Oct 11, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2003: The Truth About Stories, Part 2 AudioIdeas 2003: The Truth About Stories, Part 2 Oct 11, 2011 | 54:22Beginning with Native oral stories, -winning author and scholar Thomas King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, in an effort to make sense of North America's relationship with its Aboriginal peoples.
Oct 11, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2003: The Truth About Stories, Part 3 AudioIdeas 2003: The Truth About Stories, Part 3 Oct 11, 2011 | 54:22Beginning with Native oral stories, -winning author and scholar Thomas King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, in an effort to make sense of North America's relationship with its Aboriginal peoples.
Oct 6, 2011 | 56:54Ideas 1995: The Unconscious Civilization, Part 1 AudioIdeas 1995: The Unconscious Civilization, Part 1 Oct 6, 2011 | 56:54Knowledge, the Enlightenment believed, could protect us from the follies of ideology. But John Ralston Saul maintains that "knowing" has not made us "conscious." Instead we have become increasingly passive, our society increasingly conformist. There are no easy solutions to this problem, Saul says, but change is still possible.
Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 1 AudioIdeas 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 1 Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22In A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age, can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.
Oct 7, 2011 | 52:23Ideas 2000: The Rights Revolution, Part 1 AudioIdeas 2000: The Rights Revolution, Part 1 Oct 7, 2011 | 52:23Canada is in the middle of a rights revolution. Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good across the world.
Canadian writer and historian Michael Ignatieff goes to the heart of what Canadians mean by community, country and commitment.
Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 3 AudioIdeas 2004: A Short History of Progress, Part 3 Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22In A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age, can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.
Oct 7, 2011 | 54:41Ideas 1998: Becoming Human, Part 1 AudioIdeas 1998: Becoming Human, Part 1 Oct 7, 2011 | 54:41Jean Vanier is the founder of L'Arche, the international organization famed for its innovative methods of working with handicapped people. In this year's Massey Lectures, he discusses the necessity of conceiving a new vision of humankind: a society in which the gifts of all, particularly those of the weak and the powerless, are an equal, common heritage.
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.
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.
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