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McGill’s Building 21: Thinking beyond the acknowledged, the recognized and the comfortable.Episodes
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In part 1 of this series, we discussed what it means for a human to grow up. But we're not the only organisms who develop and grow older. And some of the others have much more extreme changes in their lives than even the most awkward of adolesc
"All children, except one, grow up."Thus begins the book Peter Pan, the story of the only boy who never grows up. But for the rest of us, what does that term mean, exactly? At what point have you grown sufficiently "up" to be considered an adu
In many ways, our lives are entirely dependent on others, both human and non-human. We constantly interact with coworkers, friends, partners, family, and complete strangers. But how exactly do all these different relationships affect us?Listen
The idea of a soul, of the intangible something that makes up a person, has existed for millennia. But souls aren't confined to people -- we talk about soulful food, soulful music, soulful art, and we can describe both people and inanimate thin
La question du sublime se pose depuis des milliers d'années. Nous le cherchons dans les paysages, les arts, les mathématiques. Nous le trouvons entre la beauté et la peur, le connu et l'inconnu.Mais qu'est-ce que le sublime, exactement? Quand
Welcome to Part 1 of our new miniseries, Matterless Matters! In this series we'll be discussing matters that maybe don't matter too much, but are fun and surprisingly deep anyway.This first episode will ask the following crucial questions: Are
How do we define language? What is the difference between language and other types of communication? Is music a language? How does language shape our way of thinking? Join us for this follow-up to one of our latest I'm Not Sure discussions.
What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word "alien"? Is it something threatening? Something unknown? Something different? Join us along with Prof. Samuele Collu and Vincent Laliberté to dive into this surprisingly ancient q
What if there were no cars in cities? What if we used hypothetical questions to solve real problems? What if asking these questions made us happier, more empathetic people? Join us for a thoughtful celebration of two of the most freeing words i
Join us for a in-depth discussion on what creates rich and beautiful learning environments.
David Peña-Guzman is Associate Professor at San Francisco State University. In his latest book, When Animals Dream, Dr. Peña-Guzman wonders whether humans are the only dreamers on Earth. What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? Whe
Radical Futures: Foundations for a Better World will not explore solutions, since solutions already exist. Instead, it will ask: what are the conditions we must create for humanity to change and adapt? What foundations, what values and beliefs
Radical Futures: Foundations for a Better World will not explore solutions, since solutions already exist. Instead, it will ask: what are the conditions we must create for humanity to change and adapt? What foundations, what values and beliefs,
Angus Fletcher has dual degrees in neuroscience and literature. He is a professor of story science at Ohio State’s Project Narrative. His research employs a mix of laboratory experiment, literary history and rhetorical theory to explore the psy
Are mermaids fish or mammals? Join Dr Chris Buddle and Dr Ollivier Dyens of McGill University, along with Dr. Sylvia Gilbertson from Hacksford University, department of cryptozoology, and our very special guest, Mermaid Claudia, to discuss this
Can a machine write beautiful poetry? Is an AI program capable of creating an artwork that is sublime? Is art just a series of recognizable patterns? And if so, what does it mean? Join us in exploring these questions. With Viola Ruzzier, Clau
Leah Price is an American literary critic who specializes in the British novel and in the history of the book. She is Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University and founding director of the Rutgers
Antonio Zadra is Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at Université de Montréal where he is director of the Dream Laboratory. Antonio Zadra is also a researcher at the Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine and co-author of t
Frédéric Gilbert is Senior Lecturer in Ethics, Philosophy and Gender Studies at the University of Tasmania.As a researcher, he explores the ethics of novel implantable brain-computer interfaces operated by Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the
Meet Harvard professor Gabriella Coleman, author of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous, and Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking who discusses the history, values and principles of the hacking commun
Join us in conversation with Dr. Ed Finn, professor at ASU and founder of the Center for Science and the Imagination. Dr. Finn explores how we can reassert our active agency and imagination in an age of passive technology. Find out how the Acad
In this segment, Dr. Rajesh Aggarwal, current Chief Growth and Strategy Officer at Panda Health, and former Director of the Steinberg Center for Simulation and Interactive Learning at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine, sits down with us t
Jonathan Ledgard is Director of Rossums, a new studio that seeks to identify technology opportunities for poorer communities. He was Director of the Future Africa Initiative at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (École Polytechnique Fédé
Join us in conversation with Dr. Sha Xin Wei, Founding Director of the Synthesis center at Arizona State University and founder of the Topological Media Lab at Concordia University in Montreal. Dr. Sha’s work explores the intersection of techno
Paul Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at McGill University.He was Director of the international project, Early Modern Conversions (2013-2019). Before that, he directed the Making Publics project (2005 to 2010). His ideas a
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