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Watching: Big Ideas

0.0•2001-12-08•8 Seasons
Season 11
Episode 33

Seasons

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Episodes

EP 1
Simon Winchester on The Man Who Loved China
EP 2
Jordan Peterson on The Necessity of Virtue
EP 3
Chris Hedges on The Death of the Liberal Class
EP 4
Daniel Dennett: What Should Replace Religions?
EP 5
PZ Myers: Science and Atheism: Natural Allies
EP 6
Derek Walcott
EP 7
Seth Lloyd on Quantum Life
EP 8
Richard Wilkinson on The Spirit Level
EP 9
Robert Adams on The Elegance of the Hedgehog
EP 10
David Sloan Wilson on Religion and Other Meaning Systems
EP 11
Nick Mount on cartoonist Seth
EP 12
Ian Hacking on the Mathematical Animal
EP 13
Hod Lipson on The Robotic Scientist
EP 14
Michael Adams
EP 15
Sara Seager on Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds
EP 16
Rupinder Brar on The Impact of Astronomy
EP 17
Robert Adams on The Forgotten
EP 18
Rod Carley on Theatre in the 21st Century: Touchstone to Humanity
EP 19
Piergiorgio Odifreddi: What Can the Arts Do for Mathematics?
EP 20
Christopher W. diCarlo on The New Ethics
EP 21
Cory Doctorow: Why it's a Bad Idea to Regulate Computers
EP 22
Michael Persinger: No More Secrets
EP 23
Armine Yalnizyan on Economics, Equality and Democracy
EP 24
Arne Kislenko on Southeast Asia and the Cold War
EP 25
Charles Foran: Mordecai Richler and the Challenge to Nationalism
EP 26
Noam Chomsky on Academic Freedom
EP 27
Can We Live Without the Sacred?
EP 28
Stephen Hawking: The Power of Ideas
EP 29
David Keith on Technology, Energy and Nature
EP 30
Jeff Melanson on the Evolving Role of the Arts in Canada
EP 31
Freeman Dyson on Living Through Four Revolutions
EP 32
John Gray: The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death
EP 33
Thomas Homer-Dixon: Civilization Far from Equilibrium: Energy, Complexity & Human Survival
EP 34
Noam Chomsky on The State-Corporate Complex
EP 35
Leonard Susskind: The World as Hologram
EP 36
Alex Himelfarb: How Did Taxes Become a Bad Word?
EP 37
Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Things to Come
EP 38
G.M. Tamas: The Failure of Liberal Democracy in Eastern Europe and Everywhere Else
EP 39
Liberty and the Arab Spring: Exploring Isaiah Berlin's Ideas in a Changing World
EP 40
Inequality: A Threat to Democracy?
EP 41
John Ibbitson: The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus
EP 42
Keith Devlin: Leonardo and Steve
EP 43
Stephen Hawking: The Power of Ideas (repeat version)

Overview

Big Ideas is a Canadian television series produced and broadcast by TVOntario, on the air since 2001. The program showcases public intellectual culture. It was conceived by Wodek Szemberg who continues to serve as producer of the program. The show presents public lectures by acclaimed university educators and other distinguished guests. The show is intended for a general audience. The original host, Irshad Manji, was succeeded by Canadian actor/director/playwright Andrew Moodie on 2006-01-07. In September 2011 Piya Chattopadhyay took over as host. Big Ideas airs on TVOntario on Saturday and Sunday at 5 PM, with repeat airings at 5:00 AM on Sunday and Monday morning. In 2007, Big Ideas held its Best Lecturer competition for the second time. Dr. Michael Persinger, from Laurentian University, received the best-lecturer award. Podcasts of the current lectures are available through the Big Ideas website as well as from iTunes.