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January 8, 2011

Season 2011

01. Simon Winchester on The Man Who Loved China

Journalist, broadcaster and bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the remarkable story of Joseph Needham, an eccentric English chemist who wrote a vast book on Chinese science which remains the longest book about China ever written in the English language

January 8, 2011

02. Jordan Peterson on The Necessity of Virtue

Author, professor and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson delivers the 2010 Hancock Lecture. He discusses virtue from a contemporary perspective that both encompasses and extends beyond moral and religious contexts.

January 15, 2011

03. Chris Hedges on The Death of the Liberal Class

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Chris Hedges delivers a lecture on his latest book The Death of the Liberal Class. He argues that American liberalism, a once proud political tradition, is dead, having sold out to corporate interests and abandoned its original principles. The result is a breakdown of the very fabric of democracy.

January 22, 2011

04. Daniel Dennett: What Should Replace Religions?

Noted atheist and secularist Daniel Dennett delivers his lecture "What Should Replace Religions?" Dennett is co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University.

January 29, 2011

05. PZ Myers: Science and Atheism: Natural Allies

Biology professor and well-known blogger PZ Myers on Science and Atheism: Natural Allies.

January 30, 2011

06. Derek Walcott

University of Toronto professor Christian Campbell talks to Nobel laureate poet Derek Walcott about his remarkable life and work.

February 5, 2011

07. Seth Lloyd on Quantum Life

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08. Richard Wilkinson on The Spirit Level

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09. Robert Adams on The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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10. David Sloan Wilson on Religion and Other Meaning Systems

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11. Nick Mount on cartoonist Seth

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12. Ian Hacking on the Mathematical Animal

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13. Hod Lipson on The Robotic Scientist

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14. Michael Adams

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15. Sara Seager on Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds

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16. Rupinder Brar on The Impact of Astronomy

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17. Robert Adams on The Forgotten

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18. Rod Carley on Theatre in the 21st Century: Touchstone to Humanity

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19. Piergiorgio Odifreddi: What Can the Arts Do for Mathematics?

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20. Christopher W. diCarlo on The New Ethics

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21. Cory Doctorow: Why it's a Bad Idea to Regulate Computers

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22. Michael Persinger: No More Secrets

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23. Armine Yalnizyan on Economics, Equality and Democracy

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24. Arne Kislenko on Southeast Asia and the Cold War

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25. Charles Foran: Mordecai Richler and the Challenge to Nationalism

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26. Noam Chomsky on Academic Freedom

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27. Can We Live Without the Sacred?

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28. Stephen Hawking: The Power of Ideas

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29. David Keith on Technology, Energy and Nature

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30. Jeff Melanson on the Evolving Role of the Arts in Canada

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31. Freeman Dyson on Living Through Four Revolutions

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32. John Gray: The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death

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33. Thomas Homer-Dixon: Civilization Far from Equilibrium: Energy, Complexity & Human Survival

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34. Noam Chomsky on The State-Corporate Complex

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35. Leonard Susskind: The World as Hologram

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36. Alex Himelfarb: How Did Taxes Become a Bad Word?

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37. Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Things to Come

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38. G.M. Tamas: The Failure of Liberal Democracy in Eastern Europe and Everywhere Else

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39. Liberty and the Arab Spring: Exploring Isaiah Berlin's Ideas in a Changing World

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40. Inequality: A Threat to Democracy?

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41. John Ibbitson: The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus

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42. Keith Devlin: Leonardo and Steve

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43. Stephen Hawking: The Power of Ideas (repeat version)

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