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Season 2011

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  • TheTVDB.com Season ID 478724
  • Created November 11, 2009
  • Modified November 11, 2009
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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S2011E01 Simon Winchester on The Man Who Loved China
January 8, 2011
 1
S2011E02 Jordan Peterson on The Necessity of Virtue
January 15, 2011
 1
S2011E03 Chris Hedges on The Death of the Liberal Class
January 22, 2011
 1
S2011E04 Daniel Dennett: What Should Replace Religions?
January 29, 2011
 1
S2011E05 PZ Myers: Science and Atheism: Natural Allies
January 30, 2011
 1
S2011E06 Derek Walcott
February 5, 2011
 1
S2011E07 Seth Lloyd on Quantum Life
February 12, 2011
 1
S2011E08 Richard Wilkinson on The Spirit Level
February 19, 2011
 1
S2011E09 Robert Adams on The Elegance of the Hedgehog
February 26, 2011
 1
S2011E10 David Sloan Wilson on Religion and Other Meaning Systems
March 5, 2011
 1
S2011E11 Nick Mount on cartoonist Seth
March 12, 2011
 1
S2011E12 Ian Hacking on the Mathematical Animal
March 19, 2011
 1
S2011E13 Hod Lipson on The Robotic Scientist
March 26, 2011
 1
S2011E14 Michael Adams on The Boomer Impact
April 2, 2011
 1
S2011E15 Sara Seager on Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds
April 9, 2011
 1
S2011E16 Rupinder Brar on The Impact of Astronomy
April 16, 2011
 1
S2011E17 Robert Adams on The Forgotten
April 17, 2011
 1
S2011E18 Rod Carley on Theatre in the 21st Century: Touchstone to Humanity
April 23, 2011
 1
S2011E19 Piergiorgio Odifreddi: What Can the Arts Do for Mathematics?
April 21, 2011
 1
S2011E20 Christopher W. diCarlo on The New Ethics
April 30, 2011
 1
S2011E21 Cory Doctorow: Why it's a Bad Idea to Regulate Computers
May 1, 2011
 1
S2011E22 Michael Persinger: No More Secrets
May 7, 2011
 1
S2011E23 Armine Yalnizyan on Economics, Equality and Democracy
May 8, 2011
 1
S2011E24 Arne Kislenko on Southeast Asia and the Cold War
May 14, 2011
 1
S2011E25 Charles Foran: Mordecai Richler and the Challenge to Nationalism
May 15, 2011
 1
S2011E26 Noam Chomsky on Academic Freedom
May 21, 2011
 1
S2011E27 Can We Live Without the Sacred?
May 26, 2011
 1
S2011E28 Stephen Hawking: The Power of Ideas 1
S2011E29 David Keith on Technology, Energy and Nature
November 24, 2011
 1
S2011E30 Jeff Melanson on the Evolving Role of the Arts in Canada
October 1, 2011
 1
S2011E31 Freeman Dyson on Living Through Four Revolutions
October 8, 2011
 1
S2011E32 John Gray: The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death
October 15, 2011
 1
S2011E33 Thomas Homer-Dixon: Civilization Far from Equilibrium: Energy, Complexity & Human Survival
October 22, 2011
 1
S2011E34 Noam Chomsky on The State-Corporate Complex
October 29, 2011
 1
S2011E35 Leonard Susskind: The World as Hologram
November 5, 2011
 1
S2011E36 Alex Himelfarb on the Consequences of Tax Cuts
November 12, 2011
 1
S2011E37 Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Things to Come
November 19, 2011
 1
S2011E38 Gaspar Tamas on The Failure of Liberal Democracy
November 26, 2011
 1
S2011E39 Liberty and the Arab Spring: Exploring Isaiah Berlin's Ideas in a Changing World
December 3, 2011
 1
S2011E40 Armine Yalnizyan and William Watson on economic disparity
December 4, 2011
 1
S2011E41 John Ibbitson: The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus
December 10, 2011
 1
S2011E42 Keith Devlin on Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple
December 17, 2011
 1
S2011E43 Psychologist Jordan Peterson on The Necessity of Virtue
December 24, 2011
 1
S2011E44 Stephen Hawking: The Power of Ideas
season finale
December 31, 2011
 1

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