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Big Ideas: Science

Big Ideas Science offers lectures on a wide range of scientific disciplines from quantum physics and climate science to neuroscience and mathematical art. The speakers presented here are guaranteed to... Read more

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Harvey Brown on the Concepts of Time and Motion

Harvey Brown on the Concepts of Time and Motion

Focusing on the work of Galileo, Newton, Descartes and Einstein, Harvey Brown examines the evolution of thinking about t... Read more

1 Jun 2013

49mins

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Daniel Gottesman on Quantum Computing

Daniel Gottesman on Quantum Computing

Daniel Gottesman of the Perimeter Institute discusses quantum computing and the cryptographic protocols that use quantum... Read more

18 May 2013

54mins

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Jeffrey Rosenthal on The Curious World of Probabilities

Jeffrey Rosenthal on The Curious World of Probabilities

The author of Struck by Lightning - and the statistician who crunched the numbers to reveal that a statistically improba... Read more

4 May 2013

44mins

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Janna Levin on her book Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Janna Levin on her book Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Janna Levin on her book Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the story of two great mathematicians, Kurt Godel and Alan Tur... Read more

20 Apr 2013

47mins

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Nima Arkani-Hamed on the Large Hadron Collider

Nima Arkani-Hamed on the Large Hadron Collider

Nima Arkani-Hamed on the Large Hadron Collider and the Future of Fundamental Physics. Located on the Swiss-French border... Read more

6 Apr 2013

54mins

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William Rees on Environmental Economics

William Rees on Environmental Economics

Ecological footprint is an idea originated by William Rees, an environmental economist from the University of British Co... Read more

23 Mar 2013

53mins

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Marc Abrahams, editor of The Annals of Improbably Research

Marc Abrahams, editor of The Annals of Improbably Research

Marc Abrahams, editor of The Annals of Improbably Research and one of the organizers of the annual Ig-Nobel Prize ceremo... Read more

9 Mar 2013

34mins

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Ken Cramer on Alfred Adler

Ken Cramer on Alfred Adler

Ken Cramer - Psychology, University of Windsor -on Alfred Adler: The Most Famous Personality Theorist You Likely Never H... Read more

23 Feb 2013

40mins

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Susannah Varmuza on the evolving field of Epigenetics

Susannah Varmuza on the evolving field of Epigenetics

University of Toronto Zoology researcher, Susannah Varmuza, discusses the evolving field of Epigenetics and what researc... Read more

9 Feb 2013

22mins

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Clare Hasenkampf on Chromosomes Dividing

Clare Hasenkampf on Chromosomes Dividing

Clare Hasenkampf of the Biology Department at University of Toronto Scarborough presents her lecture Chromosomes Dividin... Read more

26 Jan 2013

44mins

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