Monthly Archives: May 2009

How long will I live?

17 May 2009 – 10:30 pm

Input your birthday into Wolfram Alpha along with search-term ‘life expectancy’ and it will give you an answer rounded to two decimal places. My life expectancy is 81.58 years. You can take that number and add it to your date of birth, and Wolfram Alpha will return the appropriate date. According to the databases, I [...]

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A Crisis in Leadership

10 May 2009 – 11:11 pm

Part of The Globe and Mail Open House Festival. Recorded Sunday 10 May 2009
From TVO
Big Ideas, September 26, 2009: A Crisis in Leadership
Intellectual heavyweights John Ralston Saul, Naomi Klein, Margaret MacMillan and Adam Gopnik discuss ‘A Crisis in Leadership’ at the Globe and Mail Open House Festival. The panelists reflect on what constitutes [...]

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Filthy Lucre Book launch

5 May 2009 – 11:44 pm

Pages Books & Magazines presents This Is Not A Reading Series
Visit: www.pagesbooks.ca
Was the recent collapse of the multinational banking system in the cards? Will the current economic downturn ultimately be seen as a positive turn of events? To celebrate the launch of his latest book, Filthy Lucre: Economics For People Who Hate Capitalism (HarperCollins [...]

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Full Disclosure

3 May 2009 – 12:41 pm

Michael Ignatieff listening to Isaiah Berlin tell a story about Ludwig Wittgenstein, from his 1995 interview broadcast on BBC in 1998. (YouTube)
Taking the Go Train home on Saturday 26 February 2005 (I had been at that afternoon’s panel discussion put on by the Canadian Art Foundation which I reviewed for BlogTo) I picked up that [...]

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