• Ideas

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Ideas

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  • 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.
    Copyright © CBC 2024
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Episodes
  • The Story Behind the 1859 Pig War that Claimed One Causality: A Pig

    The Story Behind the 1859 Pig War that Claimed One Causality: A Pig
    Oct 15 2024

    In 1859, an American shot a pig that belonged to the Hudson’s Bay Company. Suddenly the U.S. and British Empire were on the brink of war once again. Over the years, tales about the conflict have been embellished and conspiracy theories were invented. But behind the folklore is a story of peace, diplomacy, and how we make meaning out of history.
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    54 mins
  • Dinner on Mars: How to Grow Food When Humans Colonize the Red Planet

    Dinner on Mars: How to Grow Food When Humans Colonize the Red Planet
    Oct 14 2024

    Two food security experts imagine what it would take to feed a human colony on Mars in the year 2080 if we colonized the red planet. From greenhouse technologies to nanotechnologies, they figure we could have a well-balanced diet on Mars, and argue there are lessons on how to improve our own battered food systems here on Earth. *This episode originally aired on Oct. 4, 2022.
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    54 mins
  • The Invisible Shoes of Stutthof Concentration Camp

    The Invisible Shoes of Stutthof Concentration Camp
    Oct 11 2024

    In 2015, the poet-musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski made a strange discovery at the site of the former Stutthof concentration camp in Poland — something he calls 'a carpet of abandoned shoes.' But these were more than shoes: they're both artifacts and symbols of the Holocaust — as well as a flashpoint of nationalist denialism and historical amnesia. *This episode originally aired on May 2, 2019.
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    54 mins

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