336 Episodes

  1. Humboldt's Ghost, Pt 2: The Meaning of Education

    Published: 9/20/2024

  2. Humboldt's Ghost, Pt 1: Origins of our 200 year-old public education system

    Published: 9/19/2024

  3. Bureaumania: A 'Granular' Look at Corporate Red Tape

    Published: 9/18/2024

  4. For the Sake of the Common Good: Honouring Lois Wilson

    Published: 9/17/2024

  5. Death and the Artist: Four Stories

    Published: 9/16/2024

  6. New Yorker Writer Calvin Trillin: A Warm Weather Nova Scotian

    Published: 9/13/2024

  7. Pursuing the Mysteries of Gravity with a Radical New Theory

    Published: 9/12/2024

  8. Brutalist Architecture, Beyond Aesthetics

    Published: 9/11/2024

  9. How the Story of the Horse is the History of the World

    Published: 9/10/2024

  10. Herodotus: Eros and Tyranny

    Published: 9/9/2024

  11. Brave New Worlds: Rights for the Future, Part Five

    Published: 9/6/2024

  12. Brave New Worlds: The Rights to Free Thought and Free Expression, Part Four

    Published: 9/5/2024

  13. Brave New Worlds: The Right to Leave, Return and Seek Asylum, Part Three

    Published: 9/4/2024

  14. Brave New Worlds: The Right to Privacy, Part Two

    Published: 9/3/2024

  15. Brave New Worlds: The Right to Security, Part One

    Published: 9/2/2024

  16. Why some women are saying 'I don't' to unequal marriages

    Published: 8/30/2024

  17. Transhumance: An Ancient Practice at Risk

    Published: 8/29/2024

  18. Author Robert Macfarlane on the relationship between landscape and the human heart

    Published: 8/28/2024

  19. Arctic Amazon Art Project: The Mural, Part One

    Published: 8/27/2024

  20. An Outsider Inside the Trades: Hilary Peach

    Published: 8/26/2024

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