Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWe’re drawn to the beauty of the ocean. An artist reveals why
"We come from the sea. It's not a memory. It's a feeling. It's in our DNA," Joan Jonas told IDEAS producer Mary Lynk at her home in Nova Scotia. The …
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Why do people hate?
Even in the name of love, we can justify hatred, even murder, of the other. But why do we hate others? Scholars have identified a list of 10 reasons …
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How Jaws made us believe white sharks are real villains
Fifty years ago, the movie Jaws put sharks on our radar in a very real way. It broke box office records and tapped into an underlying fear of sharks …
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Journalist Connie Walker on uncovering her family's dark history
She’s one of Canada’s most decorated journalists, having won a Pulitzer Prize, a Peabody and a Columbia-Dupont Prize for her podcast series, Stolen: …
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How Latin translation made Western philosophers famous
From Greek to Arabic and then to Latin, translators in 8th-century Baghdad eventually brought to Europe the works of Plato, Aristotle, Galen, and oth…
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Inside our loneliness epidemic
Some experts are calling loneliness an epidemic in Canada and throughout much of the world. Social isolation is a public health risk with consequence…
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Perdita Felicien on how to navigate life’s biggest hurdles
Champion hurdler Perdita Felicien has climbed to the summits of international glory throughout her track career, and endured the excruciating lows of…
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The making of an ‘authoritarian personality’
A groundbreaking study conducted in the wake of the Second World War by a group of scholars rocked the academic world when it was published in 1950 —…
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Canadian universities as safe havens for scholars-in-exile
There is a growing number of researchers who are 'forcibly displaced' worldwide. Thirty-four Canadian universities and colleges are currently hosting…
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Black history, vividly told through the colour blue
From planting periwinkles on the graves of slaves, to the blues itself, the colour blue has been core to Black Americans’ pursuit of joy in the face …
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