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The shapeshifting Queen of Sheba: legends, facts and fictions
The Queen of Sheba is a holy figure to some; a demon in disguise to others. Author and journalist Kamal Al-Solaylee explores the many afterlives of the Queen of Sheba — and how ideas about gender and power have shifted in each retelling of her life.
Radio Ideas September 20
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Who do 'smart cities' serve: actual residents or Big Tech?
Radio Ideas September 20
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Medicine as war: what M*A*S*H did for the 'battle' against COVID
Dr. Jillian Horton
Radio Ideas September 18
IDEAS AFTERNOON
Why the old-school horror of The Birds speaks to 21st-century anxieties
Radio Ideas September 18
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School Cars: how trains brought classrooms to children in remote communities
Radio Ideas September 15
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Like vanilla? Thank Edmond Albius, an enslaved boy who discovered its secret
Radio Ideas September 14

Scientists are closing in on why the universe exists

Radio Ideas September 13

Montreal's Confederate past revealed

Radio Ideas September 12

Timmins wants newcomers to stay: Canada's 'heart of gold' city seeks a love that lasts

Radio Ideas September 11

IDEAS AFTERNOON

What's the point of university?

Radio Ideas September 11

What Good Is Philosophy?

Radio Ideas September 8

How 'unschooling' and 9/11 shaped Astra Taylor's thinking on democracy

Radio Ideas September 7

World on Fire: 2023 is Canada's worst wildfire season on record — and it's not over yet

Radio Ideas September 4

BBC's Reith Lectures: What Franklin Roosevelt's 'four freedoms' mean now

Radio Ideas September 1

8 facts you may not know about eugenics

Radio Ideas August 31

Do rich nations have a responsibility to compensate countries most affected by climate change?

Radio Ideas August 30

Join CBC Ideas in Vancouver for a special event about ecological insecurity

Radio Ideas August 30

Suzuki's Survival Guide | Air and Atmosphere

Radio Ideas August 29

David Suzuki's Survival Guide: A Retrospective

Radio Ideas August 22

The fight for libraries, 'the heart' of democratic freedom

Radio Ideas August 28

IDEAS AFTERNOON

Art was a battlefield for Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, a feminist before the word was invented

Radio Ideas August 28

Muhammad Iqbal: one of the greatest South Asian thinkers of the 20th century

Radio Ideas August 24

How Indigenous Americans discovered Europe in the late 15th century

Radio Ideas August 23

Suzuki's Survival Guide | Life and Death

Radio Ideas August 22

Why socialist Susan Neiman says 'woke-ism' is not leftist

Radio Ideas August 21

IDEAS AFTERNOON

'Liminal space' photography captures the eerieness and isolation of pandemic life

Matthew Lazin-Ryder

Radio Ideas August 21

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