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Podcast Profile: Ideas

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


Description (podcaster-provided):

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.


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

➤ Contemporary thought • Intellectual history • Cultural analysis • Social issues • Psychological exploration • Philosophical inquiry • Scientific concepts • Historical narratives • Artistic expression • Political discussions

This podcast, titled "Ideas," delves into a wide array of contemporary thought and intellectual history, pressing beyond superficial headlines to stimulate deep reflection and exploration. This podcast investigates an eclectic range of topics, inviting listeners to engage with complex ideas spanning cultural, historical, and scientific discussions. The episodes cover subjects such as the cultural significance and economic implications of Cuban cigars, the intricate workings of human cells, and the societal role of the United Nations at its 80th anniversary.

Moreover, the podcast frequently examines individual figures and social movements, shedding light on stories of change-makers like Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Canada's first Black woman publisher, and the unique contributions of Chava Rosenfarb, a Canadian Yiddish writer and Holocaust survivor. In addition, there are explorations into the worlds of music, with insights into forgotten compositions and the magic of the violin, as well as discussions of environmental issues and speculative future trends, such as the privatization of space exploration and the ethical considerations in billionaire-driven techno-utopias.

The nature of these episodes often involves revisiting historical perspectives to draw parallels with current-day issues, such as the fall of Rome and its politically malleable narrative or the resurgence of fears regarding American influence on Canadian sovereignty. This podcast also addresses societal and personal themes, from mental health struggles and the benefits of group therapy to the nuanced dynamics of marriage and human responsibility in the face of global challenges. Overall, "Ideas" aims to engage its audience with well-rounded explorations of human experiences, offering intellectual enrichment by addressing both timely and timeless themes.


Episodes:
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 | # 5: Good conversations
2025-Mar-17
54 minutes
Why Massey Lecturer Ian Williams Stays Open to All Perspectives
2025-Mar-14
54 minutes
White Wine with Lunch: How much luxury is reasonable for one person?
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 Many Lives of Maria Chapdelaine
2025-Feb-04
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
The Theatre of News: Lessons from Elizabethan England
2024-Dec-05
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
Acclaimed Journalist Connie Walker on the Importance of Storytelling
2024-Dec-02
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
Disgust: The Good and Evil
2024-Nov-27
54 minutes
Otherworld: Astonishing Tales of Romance in Medieval Ireland
2024-Nov-26
54 minutes
Breaking Barriers: The Trailblazing Chatham Coloured All-Stars
2024-Nov-25
54 minutes
The 2024 CBC Massey Lectures | # 4: Who can speak for whom to whom about what?
2024-Nov-21
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
The Seven Wonders of the World: A Bucket List for Ancient Travellers
2024-Nov-06
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
Arts Icon Joan Jonas on Her Great Muse, Cape Breton
2024-Oct-22
54 minutes
The Living Dead: Art and Human Remains
2024-Oct-21
54 minutes
How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
2024-Oct-18
54 minutes
Turning the Climate Crisis into Motivation, and Hope into Action
2024-Oct-17
54 minutes
The Story Behind the 1859 Pig War that Claimed One Casualty: A Pig
2024-Oct-15
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
Modern Patriotism: 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
A Reality Check on Reality TV
2024-Oct-04
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
Child Sex Abuse Prevention: How Best to Protect Kids
2024-Sep-23
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
How the Story of the Horse is the History of the World
2024-Sep-10
54 minutes
Herodotus: Eros and Tyranny
2024-Sep-09
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
Healing the Land, Part Two: From Eden Ecology to Indigenous Ecology
2024-Aug-20
54 minutes
Healing the Land, Part One: After the Fire
2024-Aug-19
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
Turn the Other Cheek: the radical case for nonviolent resistance
2024-Jul-09
54 minutes
Astra Taylor's CBC Massey Lectures | #1: Cura’s Gift
2024-Jul-08
60 minutes
Poet Ross Gay on the necessity of joy and delight
2024-Jul-05
54 minutes
Massey at 60: Tanya Talaga on what Canada can learn from the stories of Indigenous peoples
2024-Jul-03
54 minutes
Flop Sweat: Why We Choke When It Matters Most
2024-Jul-02
54 minutes
International laws against genocide exist: so why don’t they work?
2024-Jun-28
54 minutes
How the death of a friend inspired a fight for human rights and justice
2024-Jun-27
54 minutes
Massey at 60: Payam Akhavan on his unwavering advocacy for human rights
2024-Jun-26
54 minutes
5 Canadian Writers on Subverting Identity
2024-Jun-25
54 minutes
Cultivating Community, Citizenship and Belonging | Jamie Chai Yun Liew
2024-Jun-20
54 minutes
Political tribalism is an existential threat to humanity: evolutionary anthropologist
2024-Jun-19
54 minutes
Taken In: Exploring Credulity
2024-Jun-18
54 minutes
BBC Reith Lectures: Artificial Prosperity
2024-Jun-17
54 minutes
Queer Diplomacy: Negotiating 2SLGBTQ+ Rights in a Fraught World
2024-Jun-14
54 minutes
(Land) Back to the Future | Riley Yesno
2024-Jun-12
54 minutes
Walking Among the Ancients: The Rare Wabanaki-Acadian Old-Growth Forest
2024-Jun-11
54 minutes
BBC Reith Lectures: Artificial Democracy
2024-Jun-10
54 minutes
Bring Back Grumpy George: The Forgotten Message of George Grant
2024-Jun-07
54 minutes
A Walk of Remembrance: Honouring Canadian soldiers who helped liberate the Netherlands
2024-Jun-06
54 minutes
On Culture Wars in Christianity
2024-Jun-05
54 minutes
China's Cultural Revolution: a history that remains widely unknown
2024-Jun-04
54 minutes
Papyrus: Exploring the Invention of the Book
2024-May-30
54 minutes
The Making of a Beast: Entering a New World of Fire
2024-May-29
54 minutes
The extreme in America’s mainstream
2024-May-27
54 minutes
Wade Davis' CBC Massey Lecture # 5 | The Wayfinders: Century of the Wind
2024-May-24
54 minutes
Massey at 60: Wade Davis on looking to Indigenous cultures for answers to world crises
2024-May-23
54 minutes
Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel: Jeannie Marshall
2024-May-22
54 minutes
How global liberation efforts helped shape the Dene fight for self-determination
2024-May-21
54 minutes
Food Security: Root Causes and Pathways to Change
2024-May-17
54 minutes
The Lives of Women, Readers and Alice Munro
2024-May-14
54 minutes
What role can solidarity play when confronting political and social issues?
2024-May-13
54 minutes
The Return of Inequality | Lessons of History
2024-May-10
54 minutes
Massey at 60: Jennifer Welsh on how inequality is undermining liberal democracy
2024-May-09
54 minutes
How a nation could be both free and equal
2024-May-07
54 minutes
Lisa LaFlamme: In Defence of Democracy
2024-May-03
54 minutes
Starting a global conversation to restore civility and liberal democracy
2024-May-02
54 minutes
Could resetting the body's clock help cure jet lag?
2024-Apr-29
54 minutes
Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society | Tech Expert Ron Deibert
2024-Apr-26
54 minutes
Massey at 60: Ron Deibert on how spyware is changing the nature of authority today
2024-Apr-25
54 minutes
The Making and Unmaking of Violent Men | Miglena Todorova
2024-Apr-24
54 minutes
Wilkie Collins: A true detective of the human mind
2024-Apr-23
54 minutes
Salmon depletion in Yukon River puts First Nations community at risk
2024-Apr-22
54 minutes
“Sometimes I think this city is trying to kill me…”
2024-Apr-19
54 minutes
The "Reconciliation" Generation: Indigenous Youth and the Future for Indigenous People
2024-Apr-18
54 minutes
The history of bombing civilians — and why it’s still a military tactic
2024-Apr-17
54 minutes
The 2000 CBC Massey Lectures: The Rights Revolution by Michael Ignatieff
2024-Apr-12
54 minutes
Massey at 60: Michael Ignatieff on how human rights language has shaped Canadian politics
2024-Apr-11
54 minutes
Bonus | 2024 Massey lecturer Ian Williams on courageous conversations and taking risks
2024-Apr-10
45 minutes
Authoritarian study makes a comeback to understand lure of far-right movements
2024-Apr-09
54 minutes
Montreal's hidden Confederate history
2024-Apr-05
54 minutes
Living in legal limbo: How states create 'ghost citizens'
2024-Apr-04
54 minutes
Betrayal of Faith: The Story of Pastedechouan
2024-Apr-03
54 minutes
What Good Is Philosophy?
2024-Apr-01
54 minutes
Nine Minutes that Changed the World
2024-Mar-29
54 minutes
Putin Critic Garry Kasparov: Winter is Here
2024-Mar-28
54 minutes
Conflicted: a Ukrainian journalist covers her nation at war
2024-Mar-27
54 minutes
CBC Massey Lectures: Audience Q&A with Astra Taylor
2024-Mar-25
54 minutes