Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights)

How does the inner science of ourselves intersect with the outer science of the universe? A Stratford Festival Forum on the theme of discovery with Janice Gross Stein, Dr. Joe MacInnis, and Jay Ingram.

From a 2009 IDEAS series about France, Gilbert Reid explores the riots in 2005 that spread from the high rise suburbs outside Paris across the country, leaving thousands of people arrested.

PhD students Kiran Banerjee and Craig Damian Smith propose a radical re-thinking of the institutions that shape how nations respond to the voices of refugees.

Paul Kennedy speaks to Paul Mason, one of Britain's most outspoken critics of neoliberalism, about why he is optimistic that technology and our changing relationship with the state may create societies that are healthier and more just.

LSD. MDMA. Magic Mushrooms. The demonized drugs of the 1960’s, some of them banned over four decades ago, are back. But now they’re on the front-lines of medicine, as scientists around the world explore their healing properties.

History suggests that humanity has achieved great things. We live longer, eat better and have a more equitable world than at any other time. But what about the future? Highlights from the most recent Munk Debate on Progress.

When the Taliban and ISIS destroy ancient artifacts, the world responds with outrage. But where should that outrage lead: taking ancient art out of the country of origin? Or would that amount to what some have called neo-colonialism and cultural genocide?

Philosophers Michael Blake, Simone Chambers, Arthur Ripstein and IDEAS Executive Producer Greg Kelly grapple with the nature, the rules, and the challenges of war and peace, yesterday and today.

In 1915, more than a thousand women gathered in The Hague, Netherlands to find a way to end the First World War. Marilyn Powell traces the remarkable story of their achievement and defeat.

Women are peaceful. On this basis, women have worked for peace as mothers and moral guides to the world. But this stereotype limits women - and their peacemaking - as much as it empowers them.

Eleanor Wacthel in conversation with Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu, and critic Andrei Tanasescu about new Romanian cinema.

What makes a hero? Five of Canada's top writers share their stories inspired by the theme of this year's CBC Massey Lecture by Margaret MacMillan.

At Moses Znaimer's ideacity Conference, digital utopians and skeptics tried to figure out whether our wired world is best thing that's happened since the invention of sliced bread....or the absolute worst.

Philosophers Michael Blake, Simone Chambers, Arthur Ripstein and IDEAS Executive Producer Greg Kelly grapple with the nature, the rules, and the challenges of war and peace, yesterday and today.

Artist and academic Pam Hall recently collaborated with Fogo Island residents to produce "An Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge". She shares the results of her research with Paul Kennedy.