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Podcast Profile: Ideas

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237 episodes
2024 to 2025
Median: 54 minutes
Collection: SciPhi-Adjacent


Description (podcaster-provided):

IDEAS is a place for people who like to think. If you value deep conversation and unexpected reveals, this show is for you. From the roots and rise of authoritarianism to near-death experiences to the history of toilets, no topic is off-limits. Hosted by Nahlah Ayed, we’re home to immersive documentaries and fascinating interviews with some of the most consequential thinkers of our time.
With an award-winning team, our podcast has proud roots in its 60-year history with CBC Radio, exploring the IDEAS that make us who we are. 
New episodes drop Monday through Friday at 5pm ET.


Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):

➤ Philosophy and human nature • Politics and society • Art and culture • National identity • History and memory • Science and technology • Nature and environment • Personal narratives and exploration

IDEAS is a podcast that delves into a broad range of intellectual subjects, offering listeners an opportunity to engage with thought-provoking discussions and documentaries. The show, hosted by Nahlah Ayed, is known for covering a diverse array of topics, from historical and political analyses to cultural and social insights. Many episodes explore significant philosophical questions and engage with contemporary issues through the lens of distinguished scholars and thinkers.

A recurring theme is the exploration of national identity and cultural history, with episodes examining subjects like Canadian patriotism, the impact of historical events on national consciousness, and cultural preservation efforts. The podcast also addresses complex and challenging topics, such as political polarization, authoritarianism, and human rights, offering in-depth discussions on the dynamics shaping global and national socio-political landscapes.

Listeners will find episodes that highlight the intersection of art and identity, including explorations of how art can reflect and shape national and cultural narratives. Moreover, the show often features stories of resilience and transformation, focusing on personal narratives and the broader societal implications of individual experiences.

The podcast does not shy away from difficult conversations, addressing issues such as systemic discrimination, historical injustices, and controversial aspects of human behavior. Scientific and philosophical inquiries into human nature, including discussions on emotions and neurodiversity, are also prominent throughout the series. Additionally, episodes explore the role of historical figures and movements that have influenced contemporary thought and society.

Overall, IDEAS presents a rich tapestry of content that encourages deep reflection, challenging listeners to consider diverse perspectives and the complex factors that shape our world.


Episodes:
How did the Taj Mahal turn into a bouncy castle?
2025-Jul-04
54 minutes
What you may have missed in this famous painter's artwork
2025-Jul-03
54 minutes
The mysterious death of a great Canadian painter
2025-Jul-02
54 minutes
Why Canadian patriotism right now isn't blind nationalism
2025-Jul-01
54 minutes
The heart of Canadian pride shines through Joyce Wieland's art
2025-Jun-30
54 minutes
Voices of a silenced history: inside Bulgaria's Gulag
2025-Jun-27
54 minutes
We’re drawn to the beauty of the ocean. An artist reveals why
2025-Jun-26
54 minutes
Why do people hate?
2025-Jun-25
54 minutes
The most famous French-Canadian novel you've never heard of
2025-Jun-24
54 minutes
How Jaws made us believe white sharks are real villains
2025-Jun-23
54 minutes
Journalist Connie Walker on uncovering her family's dark history
2025-Jun-20
54 minutes
How Latin translation made Western philosophers famous
2025-Jun-19
54 minutes
Inside our loneliness epidemic
2025-Jun-18
54 minutes
Perdita Felicien on how to navigate life’s biggest hurdles
2025-Jun-17
54 minutes
The making of an ‘authoritarian personality’
2025-Jun-16
54 minutes
Canadian universities as safe havens for scholars-in-exile
2025-Jun-13
54 minutes
Black history, vividly told through the colour blue
2025-Jun-12
56 minutes
How Indigenous ecology is reviving land destroyed by wildfires
2025-Jun-11
54 minutes
How brutal wildfires are 'killing' Indigenous ways of life
2025-Jun-10
54 minutes
The movement that unlocked a new masculinity – Dandyism
2025-Jun-09
54 minutes
How Canadian nationalism died
2025-Jun-06
54 minutes
The famously polarizing father of capitalism
2025-Jun-05
54 minutes
What it’s like to discover you have ADHD after 50
2025-Jun-04
54 minutes
What it means to fully embrace neurodiversity
2025-Jun-03
54 minutes
Do books have the power to heal us?
2025-Jun-02
54 minutes
Hallelujah! The transformative power of Black gospel music
2025-May-30
54 minutes
Why we can’t live without the universal feeling of disgust
2025-May-29
54 minutes
The philosophy behind why humans are so self-conscious
2025-May-28
54 minutes
How the fear of fire is taking control of us
2025-May-27
54 minutes
The unforgivable crime of being queer in Africa
2025-May-26
54 minutes
Bringing child sex abusers out of the shadows
2025-May-23
54 minutes
Why our long term relationship with the U.S. is done
2025-May-22
54 minutes
Where did modern news culture come from? Think Shakespeare
2025-May-21
54 minutes
Champions of cormorants argue the water bird is unfairly vilified
2025-May-20
54 minutes
Why music — even sad music — is 'inherently joyful'
2025-May-19
54 minutes
The three ingredients in an autocrat's recipe for power
2025-May-16
54 minutes
A pig was shot dead in 1859. It sparked a British-U.S. war
2025-May-15
54 minutes
The trailblazing all-Black baseball team that made history
2025-May-14
54 minutes
Russia’s constant craving for U.S. recognition
2025-May-13
54 minutes
Her job is to find buried children at residential schools
2025-May-12
54 minutes
The power of white evangelical Christians in MAGA politics
2025-May-09
54 minutes
There's no potential danger of AI discrimination — 'it's here'
2025-May-08
54 minutes
The one exception that makes killing civilians legal in war
2025-May-07
54 minutes
The 2,000-year-old travel list to complete before you die
2025-May-06
54 minutes
Canadian troops who freed the Netherlands from Nazis
2025-May-05
54 minutes
What it means to call your loved one a ‘corpse’
2025-May-02
54 minutes
The limitless mind and body of an 83-year-old super-athlete
2025-May-01
54 minutes
How the American cowboy ignited the Republican movement
2025-Apr-30
54 minutes
How horses shaped humankind, from wearing pants to vaccines
2025-Apr-29
54 minutes
Episode Image Elections results are in. IDEAS recommends World Report
2025-Apr-29
10 minutes
Reality TV might be making you smarter
2025-Apr-28
54 minutes
What it takes to become a ruthless tyrant
2025-Apr-25
54 minutes
Attacking our biggest fear — political polarization
2025-Apr-21
54 minutes
Why PEI cares more than any other province about voting
2025-Apr-21
54 minutes
Has the housing crisis shaken your trust in democracy?
2025-Apr-21
59 minutes
Libraries are fighting for their freedom — and our democracy
2025-Apr-21
54 minutes
In the face of violence, do you radically 'turn the other cheek'?
2025-Apr-18
54 minutes
New to IDEAS? Start here
2025-Apr-18
2 minutes
How Hitler's 'favourite' reptile became a geopolitical symbol
2025-Apr-17
54 minutes
Love or hate Elon Musk, 'we empowered him'
2025-Apr-16
54 minutes
Spyware abusers can easily hack your phone and surveil you
2025-Apr-15
54 minutes
Do you truly live in a ‘free’ society? It’s complicated
2025-Apr-14
54 minutes
Why world maps illustrate an artificial reality
2025-Apr-11
54 minutes
Need some Stompin' Tom right now to celebrate being Canadian? We thought so.
2025-Apr-10
54 minutes
Democracies 'stay true to your values' tackling borders, says U.S. expert
2025-Apr-09
54 minutes
How a network of journalists uncovered billions and toppled world leaders
2025-Apr-08
54 minutes
Can you return home? This author says revision offers radical possibilities
2025-Apr-07
54 minutes
How a conspiracy theory becomes 'real'
2025-Apr-04
54 minutes
Loving Your Country in the 21st Century (Step Three)
2025-Apr-03
54 minutes
Walk with us through a rare old-growth forest in peril
2025-Apr-02
54 minutes
How Galileo revolutionized science to make way for modernity
2025-Apr-01
54 minutes
Montreal's Confederate past revealed, from sympathizers to raids
2025-Mar-28
54 minutes
Protecting childhood innocence is a disservice to kids, argues expert
2025-Mar-27
54 minutes
Why a small town newspaper is thriving in a declining industry
2025-Mar-26
54 minutes
A School that Feels like Home: Revitalizing Mi’kmaq Language in Cape Breton
2025-Mar-25
54 minutes
How Iqaluit's learning institute gave a generation of Inuit adults a path back to Inuktut
2025-Mar-24
54 minutes
The 2024 CBC Massey Lectures | # 1: Why we need to have a conversation about conversations
2025-Mar-17
54 minutes
The 2024 CBC Massey Lectures | # 2: Public conversations
2025-Mar-17
54 minutes
The 2024 CBC Massey Lectures | # 3: Personal conversations
2025-Mar-17
54 minutes
The 2024 CBC Massey Lectures | # 4: Who can speak for whom to whom about what?
2025-Mar-17
54 minutes
The 2024 CBC Massey Lectures | # 5: Good conversations
2025-Mar-17
54 minutes
Why Massey Lecturer Ian Williams Stays Open to All Perspectives
2025-Mar-14
54 minutes
Wine with lunch? What's a reasonable amount of luxury?
2025-Mar-13
54 minutes
We believe in artificial intelligence the same way we believe in ghosts
2025-Mar-12
54 minutes
A rallying cry to extend human rights to our data-generating digital selves
2025-Mar-11
54 minutes
How To Build An Empire: The Aeneid Guide to Understanding U.S. Politics
2025-Mar-10
54 minutes
Believe in ghosts? Why people see spirits and sense visitations
2025-Mar-07
54 minutes
Smell: Why This Invisible Superpower Deserves More Attention
2025-Mar-06
54 minutes
How Inuit Storytelling and Modern Horror Fiction Come Together
2025-Mar-05
54 minutes
Be Reasonable: Scholars Define Who Is and Who Is Not
2025-Mar-04
54 minutes
How Christian ethics can inform a peaceful resolution to Russia’s war in Ukraine
2025-Mar-03
54 minutes
Puro Cubano: The Meaning of Tobacco in Cuba
2025-Feb-28
54 minutes
Our Bodies, Our Cells: An Audio Exploration of Life's Building Blocks
2025-Feb-27
54 minutes
The UN at 80: Successes, Hopes, Failures, and Challenges
2025-Feb-26
54 minutes
Remember the Last Time Canada Feared the U.S. Would Swallow It Up?
2025-Feb-25
54 minutes
Why learn improv? Your unscripted mind can surprise even you
2025-Feb-24
54 minutes
How the Outdoors Inspired Women to Become Trailblazers
2025-Feb-21
54 minutes
The Passion of Émile Nelligan: Canada's Saddest Poet
2025-Feb-20
54 minutes
Naming Life: The Race to Classify Millions of Unidentified Species
2025-Feb-19
54 minutes
Writer Adam Gopnik on the Evolution of Antisemitism Into Anti-urbanism
2025-Feb-18
54 minutes
Swinging and Singing: The Violin
2025-Feb-17
54 minutes
Marriage and the Modern Woman: What It Takes To Say "I Do"
2025-Feb-14
54 minutes
IDEAS Introduces On Drugs | A Troubled Relationship With Alcohol
2025-Feb-13
54 minutes
Rights vs Deservingness: How We Decide Who Belongs
2025-Feb-12
54 minutes
Dreaming of Better: Living With Bipolar Disorder
2025-Feb-11
54 minutes
North on North: Stories from the Only Independent Publisher in the Canadian Arctic
2025-Feb-10
54 minutes
From Grit to Glory: Canada’s First Black Woman Publisher
2025-Feb-07
54 minutes
Indigenous Journalist Calls for a Revolution of Genuine Action
2025-Feb-06
54 minutes
'Here lived Chava Rosenfarb' : A Profile of the Canadian Yiddish writer
2025-Feb-05
54 minutes
The Amazing Henry Box Brown: From Fugitive Slave to Ingenious Entertainer
2025-Feb-03
54 minutes
The Value of Group Therapy
2025-Jan-31
54 minutes
Loving Your Country in the 21st Century (Step Two)
2025-Jan-30
54 minutes
Becoming Aaju Peter: A Guardian of Inuk Language and Culture
2025-Jan-29
54 minutes
PT 2: What Lies Beneath the Surface: Anthropologist Wade Davis
2025-Jan-28
54 minutes
Inuit Approaches to Conversation and Conflict Resolution
2025-Jan-27
54 minutes
Reith Lectures #4: Can we change violent minds?
2025-Jan-24
54 minutes
Reith Lectures #3: Does trauma cause violence?
2025-Jan-23
54 minutes
Techno-Utopia or The Billionaires’ Wet Dream
2025-Jan-22
54 minutes
Who Owns Outer Space?
2025-Jan-21
54 minutes
Polarizing Times Call for Nietzsche’s Practice of 'Passing By'
2025-Jan-20
54 minutes
Searching for Truth: The Honourable Louise Arbour
2025-Jan-17
54 minutes
Reith Lectures #2: Is there such a thing as evil?
2025-Jan-16
54 minutes
The Never-Ending Fall of Rome
2025-Jan-15
54 minutes
A Minor Revolution: Prioritizing Kids' Rights Benefits Us All
2025-Jan-14
54 minutes
What 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes would say about American democracy today
2025-Jan-13
54 minutes
ARC Ensemble: The Forgotten Music of Exiled Composers
2025-Jan-10
54 minutes
Reith Lectures #1: Is violence normal?
2025-Jan-09
54 minutes
Woke Racism and the Language Police | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & John McWhorter
2025-Jan-08
54 minutes
This Way to Re-Enchantment, with Philosopher Charles Taylor
2025-Jan-07
54 minutes
What Lies Beneath the Surface: Anthropologist Wade Davis
2025-Jan-06
54 minutes
Nine: A Number of Synchronicity
2025-Jan-03
54 minutes
We Give You Five: Odd in More Ways Than One
2025-Jan-02
54 minutes
The Story and Magic of Three
2025-Jan-01
54 minutes
Join IDEAS for our annual New Year's Levee
2024-Dec-31
45 minutes
Echoes of an Empty Sound: The Story of Zero
2024-Dec-30
54 minutes
Fireside & Icicles — Poems for Winter
2024-Dec-27
54 minutes
A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Musical Genius of Jerry Granelli
2024-Dec-26
54 minutes
Christmas Philosophy 101
2024-Dec-24
54 minutes
Apocalypse for Christmas: Thomas Merton and the Inn
2024-Dec-23
54 minutes
What the Next 50 Years of Investigative Journalism Might Look Like
2024-Dec-20
54 minutes
Imprisoned Syrian Wrote Poetry Imagining the Fall of the Regime. Now it's Come True
2024-Dec-19
54 minutes
Manuscript Used to Eradicate Andean Thought is Now Key to Revitalizing it
2024-Dec-18
54 minutes
The 2024 Killam Prize Honours Canada’s University Researchers (Part 2)
2024-Dec-17
54 minutes
There's No Place Like Home: Humanity and the Housing Crisis
2024-Dec-16
54 minutes
Hawkeye's Army: The War Metaphor in Medicine
2024-Dec-13
54 minutes
What Should Cities of the Future Look Like?
2024-Dec-12
54 minutes
Fighting for Climate Justice in The Hague: Payam Akhavan
2024-Dec-11
54 minutes
Non-Aligned News: The Future of Non-Western Media, Part Two
2024-Dec-10
54 minutes
Non-Aligned News: A Journalistic Experiment to Decolonize Global News
2024-Dec-09
54 minutes
Fate Is the Hunter: Ernest K. Gann's Great Fortune
2024-Dec-06
54 minutes
School Cars: How Trains Brought Classrooms to Children in Remote Communities
2024-Dec-04
54 minutes
What It Means To Belong In The World: Writer M.G. Vassanji
2024-Dec-03
54 minutes
The 2024 Killam Prize Honours Canada’s University Researchers (Part 1)
2024-Nov-29
54 minutes
The 2024 Beatty Lecture Pairs Two Great Minds That Don’t Think Alike
2024-Nov-28
54 minutes
Otherworld: Astonishing Tales of Romance in Medieval Ireland
2024-Nov-26
54 minutes
A Harem of Computers: The History of the Feminized Machine
2024-Nov-14
54 minutes
How Canadians Can Help Lead the Global Fight for Health Equity
2024-Nov-13
54 minutes
How to Flourish in a Broken World
2024-Nov-12
54 minutes
Pt 2: Acts of Remembrance: Canadian Veterans Share Postwar Experiences
2024-Nov-11
54 minutes
Pt 1: What Came After: Canadian Veterans Share Postwar Experiences
2024-Nov-08
54 minutes
Massey at 60: The Legacy of Doris Lessing and the 'Prisons We Choose to Live Inside'
2024-Nov-07
54 minutes
Do Dogs Feel Guilt? Animal Cognition Discoveries
2024-Nov-05
54 minutes
Experts Say American Democracy is at a Precipice, and Time is Ticking
2024-Nov-04
54 minutes
Can a New Conservatism Offer Solutions to Modern Social Problems?
2024-Nov-01
54 minutes
The Role of Nonfiction in a World of Contested Truths: Writer Pankaj Mishra
2024-Oct-31
54 minutes
Is Fascism Coming Back?
2024-Oct-30
54 minutes
PT 2: How Journalism is Fighting Against Polarization
2024-Oct-29
54 minutes
PT 1: How Journalism is Fighting Against Polarization
2024-Oct-28
54 minutes
Indigenous Archaeologist Reclaims Pleistocene Epoch Story from Colonial Scholars
2024-Oct-25
54 minutes
The History and Mystery of Left-Handers
2024-Oct-23
54 minutes
The Marrow of Nature: A Case for Wetlands
2024-Oct-23
54 minutes
The Living Dead: Art and Human Remains
2024-Oct-21
54 minutes
Turning the Climate Crisis into Motivation, and Hope into Action
2024-Oct-17
54 minutes
Dinner on Mars: How to Grow Food When Humans Colonize the Red Planet
2024-Oct-14
54 minutes
The Invisible Shoes of Stutthof Concentration Camp
2024-Oct-11
54 minutes
Loving Your Country in the 21st Century (Step One)
2024-Oct-10
54 minutes
How the Anthropocene is Changing the Elements — and Us
2024-Oct-09
54 minutes
October 8,1970: The FLQ Manifesto
2024-Oct-08
54 minutes
Civil Discourse or Civil War? Ideas and Realities of the Contemporary University
2024-Oct-07
54 minutes
Massey at 60: How Physicist Ursula Franklin's Prescient Ideas on Technology Persist
2024-Oct-03
54 minutes
Making Justice Imaginable: Lawyer Lex Gill
2024-Oct-02
54 minutes
Left Is Not Woke: Susan Neiman
2024-Oct-01
54 minutes
How Indigenous survival offers a blueprint for everyone’s future: Jesse Wente
2024-Sep-30
54 minutes
Slowing Down in Urgent Times: A Lesson in Hope
2024-Sep-27
54 minutes
Deliberation in a Time of Anger: Making Space for Collective Decision-Making
2024-Sep-26
54 minutes
Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space: A Place to Dream
2024-Sep-25
54 minutes
The Heavy Metal Suite: Music and the Future of Mining
2024-Sep-24
54 minutes
Humboldt's Ghost, Pt 2: The Meaning of Education
2024-Sep-20
54 minutes
Humboldt's Ghost, Pt 1: Origins of our 200 year-old public education system
2024-Sep-19
54 minutes
Bureaumania: A 'Granular' Look at Corporate Red Tape
2024-Sep-18
54 minutes
For the Sake of the Common Good: Honouring Lois Wilson
2024-Sep-17
54 minutes
Death and the Artist: Four Stories
2024-Sep-16
54 minutes
New Yorker Writer Calvin Trillin: A Warm Weather Nova Scotian
2024-Sep-13
54 minutes
Pursuing the Mysteries of Gravity with a Radical New Theory
2024-Sep-12
54 minutes
Brutalist Architecture, Beyond Aesthetics
2024-Sep-11
54 minutes
Brave New Worlds: Rights for the Future, Part Five
2024-Sep-06
54 minutes
Brave New Worlds: The Rights to Free Thought and Free Expression, Part Four
2024-Sep-05
54 minutes
Brave New Worlds: The Right to Leave, Return and Seek Asylum, Part Three
2024-Sep-04
54 minutes
Brave New Worlds: The Right to Privacy, Part Two
2024-Sep-03
54 minutes
Brave New Worlds: The Right to Security, Part One
2024-Sep-02
54 minutes
Transhumance: An Ancient Practice at Risk
2024-Aug-29
54 minutes
Author Robert Macfarlane on the relationship between landscape and the human heart
2024-Aug-28
54 minutes
Arctic Amazon Art Project: The Mural, Part One
2024-Aug-27
54 minutes
An Outsider Inside the Trades: Hilary Peach
2024-Aug-26
54 minutes
Perimeter Institute Public Lectures: The Physics of Jazz | Dark Matter Night
2024-Aug-23
54 minutes
Feline Philosophy: What We Can Learn From Cats
2024-Aug-22
54 minutes
Platforms, Power and Democracy: Understanding the Influence of Social Media
2024-Aug-21
54 minutes
Kate Beaton: What's lost when working-class voices are not heard
2024-Aug-16
54 minutes
Of Dogs and Derrida: Understanding the dogs’ point of view
2024-Aug-15
54 minutes
Healing and the Healer: Dr. Jillian Horton on compassion in health care
2024-Aug-14
54 minutes
The Life and Times of Salman Rushdie
2024-Aug-12
54 minutes
The Hinge Years: 1989 | Uprisings and Downfalls
2024-Aug-09
54 minutes
Rats: Facing Our Fears, Part Two
2024-Aug-08
54 minutes
Rats: Haunting Humanity’s Footsteps
2024-Aug-08
54 minutes
Historian uses Canadian prize money to buy drones for Ukraine
2024-Aug-07
54 minutes
For the Sake of the Common Good: Honouring Lois Wilson
2024-Aug-06
54 minutes
Astra Taylor's CBC Massey Lectures | #5: Escaping the Burrow
2024-Aug-05
62 minutes
The Hinge Years: 1973 | The Dictators
2024-Aug-02
54 minutes
Entre Chien et Loup: How Dogs Began
2024-Aug-01
54 minutes
A Guide to Hope, Learning and Shakespeare: Scholar Shannon Murray
2024-Jul-31
54 minutes
Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi
2024-Jul-30
54 minutes
Astra Taylor's CBC Massey Lectures | #4: Beyond Human Security
2024-Jul-29
63 minutes
The Hinge Years: 1963 | Social Revolutions
2024-Jul-26
54 minutes
English: Friend or Frenemy?
2024-Jul-25
54 minutes
Négritude: The Birth of Black Humanism
2024-Jul-24
54 minutes
Historian Tiya Miles on how a mother's love outlasted slavery
2024-Jul-23
54 minutes
Astra Taylor's CBC Massey Lectures | #3: Consumed by Curiosity
2024-Jul-22
64 minutes
The Hinge Years: 1938 | The Winds of War
2024-Jul-19
54 minutes
Episode Image Ideas Introduces: Tested
2024-Jul-18
39 minutes
The Endless Procession of Days | Ian Williams
2024-Jul-18
54 minutes
The Emancipation of Turkish Writer Ahmet Altan, Pt 2
2024-Jul-17
54 minutes
A Political Prisoner’s Odyssey: Writer Ahmet Altan, Pt 1
2024-Jul-16
54 minutes
Astra Taylor's CBC Massey Lectures | #2: Barons or Commoners?
2024-Jul-15
58 minutes
The Hinge Years: 1919 | Dividing the Spoils
2024-Jul-12
54 minutes
How philosophy plays a vital role in Canada's biggest ethical debates
2024-Jul-11
54 minutes
The ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life: Christina Sharpe
2024-Jul-10
54 minutes
Astra Taylor's CBC Massey Lectures | #1: Cura’s Gift
2024-Jul-08
60 minutes