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Big Ideas offers lectures on a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science.... By nature of its lecture format, pacing and inquisitive approach, it is the antithesis of the prevailing sound-bit

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    Finney Cherian on Unbinding Baby Elephants

    University of Windsor education professor Finney Cherian delivers his competition ...

    University of Windsor education professor Finney Cherian delivers his competition lecture entitled Unbinding Baby Elephants.

    Mar 22, 2008 Read more
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    Ken Cramer on Alfred Adler: The Most Famous Personality Theorist You Likely Never Heard Of

    University of Windsor psychology professor Ken Cramer delivers his competition ...

    University of Windsor psychology professor Ken Cramer delivers his competition lecture entitled Alfred Adler: The Most Famous Personality Theorist You Likely Never Heard Of.

    Mar 22, 2008 Read more
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    Marc Fournier on Dominance and Depression

    University of Toronto (Scarborough) psychology professor Marc Fournier delivers his ...

    University of Toronto (Scarborough) psychology professor Marc Fournier delivers his competition lecture entitled Dominance and Depression.

    Mar 15, 2008 Read more
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    Robert Jan van Pelt on Architecture After Auschwitz

    University of Waterloo Architecture professor Robert Jan van Pelt delivers ...

    University of Waterloo Architecture professor Robert Jan van Pelt delivers his Best Lecturer competition lecture entitled Architecture After Auschwitz.

    Mar 15, 2008 Read more
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    John Mitterer on Truth and Humility in Professional Practice

    Brock University psychology professor John Mitterer delivers his competition lecture ...

    Brock University psychology professor John Mitterer delivers his competition lecture entitled Truth and Humility in Professional Practice.

    Mar 8, 2008 Read more
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    Nick Bontis on Knowledge Worker Productivity

    McMaster University Strategic Management professor Nick Bontis delivers his Best ...

    McMaster University Strategic Management professor Nick Bontis delivers his Best Lecturer competition lecture entitled Knowledge Worker Productivity.

    Mar 8, 2008 Read more
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    John Schneeberger on Creative Menu Design

    Loyalist College professor John Schneeberger delivers his competition lecture entitled ...

    Loyalist College professor John Schneeberger delivers his competition lecture entitled Creative Menu Design.

    Mar 1, 2008 Read more
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    Tim Conley on The Self in Contemporary Poetry

    Brock University professor Tim Conley delivers his competition lecture entitled ...

    Brock University professor Tim Conley delivers his competition lecture entitled Coordinating the Self in Contemporary Poetry.

    Mar 1, 2008 Read more
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    Rory Stewart on state building in Afghanistan

    State building in Afghanistan is the focus of this lecture ...

    State building in Afghanistan is the focus of this lecture by Rory Stewart, a former Coalition Deputy Governor in southern Iraq. Stewart's book The Places In Between chronicles his walk across war-torn Afghanistan. Stewart's dry sense of humour shines through to illuminate many of the problems he sees in the manner in which the West is tackling the problems of state building in the wake of the Taliban.

    Feb 9, 2008 Read more
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    Steven Pinker on The Stuff of Thought

    Harvard psychology professor, Stephen Pinker, author of The Stuff of ...

    Harvard psychology professor, Stephen Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought examines how language reveals the way we think by exposing the physics built into our nouns, the temporal characteristics of our verbs and the manner in which our brains react to profanity.

    Feb 2, 2008 Read more
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