An excellent #cbcideas podcast about eugenics and genetics in general, the direct line from eugenics to genetics and how ideas from the latter like sterilization have been practiced only a few years ago (now?) in Canada.
8 facts you may not know about eugenics | CBC Radio
Eugenics is seen as a 19th-century idea put into horrific 20th-century practice. But the attraction to breeding “better” humans has a long and persistent history, says Adam Rutherford. The geneticist ...
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August 6, 2026 at 12:00 AM
An excellent #cbcideas podcast about eugenics and genetics in general, the direct line from eugenics to genetics and how ideas from the latter like sterilization have been practiced only a few years ago (now?) in Canada.
This popped up in the #CBCIdeas podcast feed a few days ago. And now, you get to reconsider it, too.
Why the classic Canadian novel Bear remains controversial — and relevant | CBC Radio
Marian Engel’s Bear is one of Canada’s most controversial novels. But experts say it’s also one of the most daring and enduring.
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July 2, 2026 at 12:46 AM
This popped up in the #CBCIdeas podcast feed a few days ago. And now, you get to reconsider it, too.
I was today years old in learning about The Matilda Effect. People who steal others work? Sure. But I had no idea how much men had stolen women’s work, especially in #science & #technology, with the name inspired by suffragist and abolitionist Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898).
#CBC
#CBCIdeas
#CBC
#CBCIdeas
April 6, 2026 at 12:13 AM
I was today years old in learning about The Matilda Effect. People who steal others work? Sure. But I had no idea how much men had stolen women’s work, especially in #science & #technology, with the name inspired by suffragist and abolitionist Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898).
#CBC
#CBCIdeas
#CBC
#CBCIdeas
This @cbcideas show is worth a listen.
“What's the point of university?
IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed moderated a public discussion at the U of Regina focused on one question: What are universities for? with Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Malinda Smith, Joel Westheimer, Jonathan R. Cole
www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
“What's the point of university?
IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed moderated a public discussion at the U of Regina focused on one question: What are universities for? with Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Malinda Smith, Joel Westheimer, Jonathan R. Cole
www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
What's the point of university? | CBC Radio
What are universities for? Where have they gone wrong? What are they doing right? And what do they owe the public? Those were just some of the questions put to university educators and renowned schola...
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March 31, 2026 at 1:50 PM
This @cbcideas show is worth a listen.
“What's the point of university?
IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed moderated a public discussion at the U of Regina focused on one question: What are universities for? with Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Malinda Smith, Joel Westheimer, Jonathan R. Cole
www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
“What's the point of university?
IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed moderated a public discussion at the U of Regina focused on one question: What are universities for? with Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Malinda Smith, Joel Westheimer, Jonathan R. Cole
www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
"Timely drop" is all, maybe, the #CBCIdeas program for 17 March,... www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Cheers!
Cheers!
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved.
www.cbc.ca
March 18, 2026 at 8:05 AM
"Timely drop" is all, maybe, the #CBCIdeas program for 17 March,... www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Cheers!
Cheers!
@rutgerbregman.com @dekorrespondent @prx.org @buzzsprout.bsky.social @substack @canadianpodcasts @cbcpodcasts @tvo @CBCideas @buzzsprout.bsky.social
March 4, 2026 at 4:45 PM
@rutgerbregman.com @dekorrespondent @prx.org @buzzsprout.bsky.social @substack @canadianpodcasts @cbcpodcasts @tvo @CBCideas @buzzsprout.bsky.social
Feb 15th of #BHM
#cbcideas with @nahlahayed.bsky.social at Provocation Ideas Festival
What Should Cities of the Future Look Like? featuring
@jaypitter.bsky.social , @robinmazumder.bsky.social
& #GregLindsay
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
11/
#cbcideas with @nahlahayed.bsky.social at Provocation Ideas Festival
What Should Cities of the Future Look Like? featuring
@jaypitter.bsky.social , @robinmazumder.bsky.social
& #GregLindsay
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
11/
February 15, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Feb 15th of #BHM
#cbcideas with @nahlahayed.bsky.social at Provocation Ideas Festival
What Should Cities of the Future Look Like? featuring
@jaypitter.bsky.social , @robinmazumder.bsky.social
& #GregLindsay
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
11/
#cbcideas with @nahlahayed.bsky.social at Provocation Ideas Festival
What Should Cities of the Future Look Like? featuring
@jaypitter.bsky.social , @robinmazumder.bsky.social
& #GregLindsay
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
11/
I was today years old when learning of what some in social conservative influencer circles call “toxic empathy” or “suicidal empathy”. The worst part was hearing it used to justify selective empathy for “the right kinds of people” to justify greed & the worst kinds of behavioural isms.
#CBCIdeas
#CBCIdeas
February 3, 2026 at 3:13 AM
I was today years old when learning of what some in social conservative influencer circles call “toxic empathy” or “suicidal empathy”. The worst part was hearing it used to justify selective empathy for “the right kinds of people” to justify greed & the worst kinds of behavioural isms.
#CBCIdeas
#CBCIdeas
#CBCIdeas is rebroadcasting via St.John's, NL stream, Tuesday's show & this year's www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/... #ReithLectures
Indeed, eh?
"These days" & "now",...
& what's "better anticipation"?
What's "Anticipatory Intelligence"?
& the tools, infrastructure we're passing-on to "Early Career", eh?
🙏✊
Indeed, eh?
"These days" & "now",...
& what's "better anticipation"?
What's "Anticipatory Intelligence"?
& the tools, infrastructure we're passing-on to "Early Career", eh?
🙏✊
How to start a moral revolution | CBC Radio
Historian and author Rutger Bregman's 2025 BBC Reith Lectures titled Moral Revolution delves into the 'age of immorality.' He explores a growing trend for un-seriousness among elites, and asks how we ...
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January 21, 2026 at 8:19 AM
#CBCIdeas is rebroadcasting via St.John's, NL stream, Tuesday's show & this year's www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/... #ReithLectures
Indeed, eh?
"These days" & "now",...
& what's "better anticipation"?
What's "Anticipatory Intelligence"?
& the tools, infrastructure we're passing-on to "Early Career", eh?
🙏✊
Indeed, eh?
"These days" & "now",...
& what's "better anticipation"?
What's "Anticipatory Intelligence"?
& the tools, infrastructure we're passing-on to "Early Career", eh?
🙏✊
As it happens, then, #CBCIdeas broadcast Monday www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
The movement to ditch democracy in favour of start-up cities run by CEOs | CBC Radio
What do you get when you take some of the classic Enlightenment values like reason, fairness, and justice, and substitute them with opinion, privilege and power: The Dark Enlightenment — a movement th...
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January 6, 2026 at 8:20 AM
As it happens, then, #CBCIdeas broadcast Monday www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
"Dear #CBCRadio #CBCIdeas ... ", indeed, eh? "This last decade, these last 15+yrs, & any/our ability to listen, to tell stories, to convey what's been lived, learned, heard, felt,... & what is 'anticipatory intelligence', too, much less with these 'mediums we use',...
cc: @craignorriscbc.bsky.social
cc: @craignorriscbc.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 8:54 AM
"Dear #CBCRadio #CBCIdeas ... ", indeed, eh? "This last decade, these last 15+yrs, & any/our ability to listen, to tell stories, to convey what's been lived, learned, heard, felt,... & what is 'anticipatory intelligence', too, much less with these 'mediums we use',...
cc: @craignorriscbc.bsky.social
cc: @craignorriscbc.bsky.social
& then #CBCIdeas rebroadcasts: www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
First broadcast earlier this year,... When? "28 January", it seems,...
hehe
😉
🙂✊🙏✌️
&, "How can we make better collective choices & lead effectively when the systems we work in are complex, unpredictable, & constantly changing?", indeed, eh?
First broadcast earlier this year,... When? "28 January", it seems,...
hehe
😉
🙂✊🙏✌️
&, "How can we make better collective choices & lead effectively when the systems we work in are complex, unpredictable, & constantly changing?", indeed, eh?
The 'dangerous' promise of a techno-utopian future | CBC Radio
The Silicon Valley is rife with rich and powerful men who have a philosophical commitment to "longtermism" which entails re-engineering the human organism. An expert in existential risk says we should...
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December 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
& then #CBCIdeas rebroadcasts: www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
First broadcast earlier this year,... When? "28 January", it seems,...
hehe
😉
🙂✊🙏✌️
&, "How can we make better collective choices & lead effectively when the systems we work in are complex, unpredictable, & constantly changing?", indeed, eh?
First broadcast earlier this year,... When? "28 January", it seems,...
hehe
😉
🙂✊🙏✌️
&, "How can we make better collective choices & lead effectively when the systems we work in are complex, unpredictable, & constantly changing?", indeed, eh?
@craignorriscbc.bsky.social Stories today, "wills", "end of life matters",... #CBCIdeas last week, & "Home", eh?
🙏✌️
"Practice, practice, Practice!" - Hope
Because it's not always exactly "certain & fitting" what happens "in the real world" as any of us "work to earn our way over span of career", eh?
🙏✌️
"Practice, practice, Practice!" - Hope
Because it's not always exactly "certain & fitting" what happens "in the real world" as any of us "work to earn our way over span of career", eh?
December 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
@craignorriscbc.bsky.social Stories today, "wills", "end of life matters",... #CBCIdeas last week, & "Home", eh?
🙏✌️
"Practice, practice, Practice!" - Hope
Because it's not always exactly "certain & fitting" what happens "in the real world" as any of us "work to earn our way over span of career", eh?
🙏✌️
"Practice, practice, Practice!" - Hope
Because it's not always exactly "certain & fitting" what happens "in the real world" as any of us "work to earn our way over span of career", eh?
"In the aftermath of the First World War, French philosopher Simone Weil had a solution to address the fascism that surged across Europe: abolish political parties. She argued political parties were not democratic, they were dangerous." So yes, that what Monday's #CBCIdeas is about.
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
www.cbc.ca
October 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"In the aftermath of the First World War, French philosopher Simone Weil had a solution to address the fascism that surged across Europe: abolish political parties. She argued political parties were not democratic, they were dangerous." So yes, that what Monday's #CBCIdeas is about.
Another signpost in my #CBCIdeas exploration. The on-air title is "Paranormal Programming", but the topic given in the podcast feed is "We believe in artificial intelligence the same way we believe in ghosts."
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
www.cbc.ca
August 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Another signpost in my #CBCIdeas exploration. The on-air title is "Paranormal Programming", but the topic given in the podcast feed is "We believe in artificial intelligence the same way we believe in ghosts."
"There's a distinction between blaming a player and blaming a game. Many people think they can make the world better just by changing the players. But if the game stays the same, we have the same problem."
Lewis Gordon talks philosophy in a Newfoundland pub. #CBCIdeas
Lewis Gordon talks philosophy in a Newfoundland pub. #CBCIdeas
Why one eminent thinker believes philosophy belongs in the pub — and kitchen | CBC Radio
Lewis Gordon is an academic. But he argues that confining thinking to the academy has resulted in people forgetting that philosophy “has something important to say.” He helps remedy the situation with...
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August 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"There's a distinction between blaming a player and blaming a game. Many people think they can make the world better just by changing the players. But if the game stays the same, we have the same problem."
Lewis Gordon talks philosophy in a Newfoundland pub. #CBCIdeas
Lewis Gordon talks philosophy in a Newfoundland pub. #CBCIdeas
More than half of the working satellites are now owned by one private company, SpaceX. They are designed for rapid deployment and obsolescence, and by design there are a LOT of them. There are benefits, but here, astrophysicist Aaron Boley talks about the problems. #CBCIdeas
Are we losing control of outer space? | CBC Radio
Space exploration is no longer the domain of countries alone. It’s now rapidly becoming the domain of private interests. Astrophysicist Aaron Boley discusses the impact of this on humanity and astrono...
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August 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
More than half of the working satellites are now owned by one private company, SpaceX. They are designed for rapid deployment and obsolescence, and by design there are a LOT of them. There are benefits, but here, astrophysicist Aaron Boley talks about the problems. #CBCIdeas
This panel discussion hosted by the University of British Columbia begins with the now well circulated statistic that loneliness and social isolation has the health impact of smoking 15 cigarettes a day, which makes me suspect I'm a two pack a day man. #CBCIdeas
All the Lonely People: The Search for Belonging in an Uncertain World
"Make our world's smaller" is one of the messages from a University of British Columbia panel discussion on the epidemic of loneliness in our society and how to fix it. Social isolation is a public he...
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July 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This panel discussion hosted by the University of British Columbia begins with the now well circulated statistic that loneliness and social isolation has the health impact of smoking 15 cigarettes a day, which makes me suspect I'm a two pack a day man. #CBCIdeas
@katebeaton.bsky.social I've been re-upping share of #CBCIdeas program this last week,...
Hearing this week's #PhilosophersZone, too, piqued a more active recall,...🤷♂️
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Just wanted to thank you for "Ideas", for your work, for "being stranger" in all the ways you do, too!
Hearing this week's #PhilosophersZone, too, piqued a more active recall,...🤷♂️
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Just wanted to thank you for "Ideas", for your work, for "being stranger" in all the ways you do, too!
July 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM
@katebeaton.bsky.social I've been re-upping share of #CBCIdeas program this last week,...
Hearing this week's #PhilosophersZone, too, piqued a more active recall,...🤷♂️
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Just wanted to thank you for "Ideas", for your work, for "being stranger" in all the ways you do, too!
Hearing this week's #PhilosophersZone, too, piqued a more active recall,...🤷♂️
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Just wanted to thank you for "Ideas", for your work, for "being stranger" in all the ways you do, too!
Jake Tapper on CBC's Ideas today (catching the replay right now) promoting his stupid book while basically burning his journalism card.
No honest reporter sits on such an important story until they can maximize profit off it. Fucking gross.
#CBCIdeas #JakeTapper
No honest reporter sits on such an important story until they can maximize profit off it. Fucking gross.
#CBCIdeas #JakeTapper
June 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Jake Tapper on CBC's Ideas today (catching the replay right now) promoting his stupid book while basically burning his journalism card.
No honest reporter sits on such an important story until they can maximize profit off it. Fucking gross.
#CBCIdeas #JakeTapper
No honest reporter sits on such an important story until they can maximize profit off it. Fucking gross.
#CBCIdeas #JakeTapper
Books as a source of healing makes my heart swell with joy. #cbcideas pca.st/podcast/c3ad...
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June 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Books as a source of healing makes my heart swell with joy. #cbcideas pca.st/podcast/c3ad...
As Yale professor Marci Shore told #CBCIdeas audience (aired May 22), it's easy to win when you don't care about anything or what you destroy doing it.
She made the point about Putin, but also Trump.
She's continuing her fight from Canada.
She made the point about Putin, but also Trump.
She's continuing her fight from Canada.
May 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
As Yale professor Marci Shore told #CBCIdeas audience (aired May 22), it's easy to win when you don't care about anything or what you destroy doing it.
She made the point about Putin, but also Trump.
She's continuing her fight from Canada.
She made the point about Putin, but also Trump.
She's continuing her fight from Canada.
