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1623 - Masseys at 60: How physicist Ursula Franklin's prescient ideas on technology persist

IDEAS is a deep-dive into contemporary thought and intellectual history. No topic is off-limits. In the age of clickbait and superficial headlines, it's for people who like to think.

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1623 - Masseys at 60: How physicist Ursula Franklin's prescient ideas on technology persist

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1619 - Deliberation in a Time of Anger: Making Space for Collective Decision-Making

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1616 - Bureaumania: A 'Granular' Look at Corporate Red Tape

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1614 - Death and the Artist: Four Stories

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1613 - New Yorker Writer Calvin Trillin: A Warm Weather Nova Scotian

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1612 - Pursuing the Mysteries of Gravity with a Radical New Theory

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1611 - Brutalist Architecture, Beyond Aesthetics

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1610 - How the Story of the Horse is the History of the World

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1609 - Herodotus: Eros and Tyranny

Mon, 09 Sep 2024
1608 - Brave New Worlds: Rights for the Future, Part Five

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1607 - Brave New Worlds: The Rights to Free Thought and Free Expression, Part Four

Thu, 05 Sep 2024
1606 - Brave New Worlds: The Right to Leave, Return and Seek Asylum, Part Three

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1605 - Brave New Worlds: The Right to Privacy, Part Two

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1604 - Brave New Worlds: The Right to Security, Part One

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1603 - Transhumance: An Ancient Practice at Risk

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1602 - Feline Philosophy: What We Can Learn From Cats

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1601 - Of Dogs and Derrida: Understanding the dogs’ point of view

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1600 - The Hinge Years: 1989 | Uprisings and Downfalls

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1599 - Rats: Haunting Humanity’s Footsteps

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1598 - Historian uses Canadian prize money to buy drones for Ukraine

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1597 - For the Sake of the Common Good: Honouring Lois Wilson

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1596 - Astra Taylor's CBC Massey Lectures | #5: Escaping the Burrow

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1595 - The Hinge Years: 1973 | The Dictators

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1594 - Entre Chien et Loup: How Dogs Began

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1593 - A Guide to Hope, Learning and Shakespeare: Scholar Shannon Murray

Wed, 31 Jul 2024
1592 - Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi

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1591 - The Hinge Years: 1963 | Social Revolutions

Fri, 26 Jul 2024
1590 - English: Friend or Frenemy?

Thu, 25 Jul 2024
1589 - Négritude: The Birth of Black Humanism

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1588 - Historian Tiya Miles on how a mother's love outlasted slavery

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1587 - Ideas Introduces: Tested

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1586 - Turn the Other Cheek: the radical case for nonviolent resistance

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Fri, 28 Jun 2024
1583 - How the death of a friend inspired a fight for human rights and justice

Thu, 27 Jun 2024
1582 - Masseys at 60: Payam Akhavan on his unwavering advocacy for human rights

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1580 - How Indigenous survival offers a blueprint for everyone’s future: Jesse Wente

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Thu, 20 Jun 2024
1578 - Political tribalism is an existential threat to humanity: evolutionary anthropologist

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1576 - BBC Reith Lectures: Artificial Prosperity

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1575 - (Land) Back to the Future | Riley Yesno

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