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 the surprisingly difficult conc...
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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 get anyone interested in science thinking big.
Daniel Gottesman on Quantum Computing
Daniel Gottesman of the Perimeter Institute discusses quantum computing and the cryptographic protocols that use quantum physics, and that one day wil...
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 improbable number of lottery retailer...
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 Turing. They were men who had the...
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, the Large Hadron Collider is...
William Rees on Environmental Economics
Ecological footprint is an idea originated by William Rees, an environmental economist from the University of British Columbia. If you need a primer i...
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 ceremonies at Harvard University, di...
Ken Cramer on Alfred Adler
Ken Cramer - Psychology, University of Windsor -on Alfred Adler: The Most Famous Personality Theorist You Likely Never Heard Of
Susannah Varmuza on the evolving field of Epigenetics
University of Toronto Zoology researcher, Susannah Varmuza, discusses the evolving field of Epigenetics and what research into such things as mouse co...
Clare Hasenkampf on Chromosomes Dividing
Clare Hasenkampf of the Biology Department at University of Toronto Scarborough presents her lecture Chromosomes Dividing: How It Is Done and Why It M...