Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights)

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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.

In her new book Why Grow Up? Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age, Paul Kennedy talks with philosopher Susan Neiman, who believes that "Having created societies that our young want to grow up into, we idealize the stages of youth."

Zombies are zeitgeist -- shuffling, moaning metaphors for all our apocalyptic fears. It's so easy to imagine the end of the world. Garth Mullins, with Lisa Hale, asks why it's so hard to imagine any alternative to catastrophe. Can't we resist?

elofer Pazira captures the sounds of war and moments of resilience, as well as the fears -- and the hopes -- of a city whose past is far more certain than its future.

To help us celebrate this milestone anniversary, we invited those listeners to tell us about programs that inspired them to make major life changes, altered their world-views or simply piqued their intellectual curiosity.

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.

As the Canadian Opera Company prepares for the world premiere of "Pyramus & Thisbe", Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the opera's Canadian composer, Barbara Monk Feldman, and the show's American director, Christopher Alden.

To help us celebrate this milestone anniversary, we invited those listeners to tell us about programs that inspired them to make major life changes, altered their world-views or simply piqued their intellectual curiosity.

Where does the idea of the individual "self" come from? What roles do culture and gender play? The idea of the self, as we understand it today, sets us apart from people in the past. With Adam Gopnik, Irwin Gopnik, and Susan Pinker.

Icicles, the weather, and cooking. At Moses Znaimer's ideacity Conference, a geophysicist nicknamed "Dr. Freeze", an editor from the Old Farmer's Almanac, and a journalist who's written about taste, present some very uncommon insights into the ordinary.

Analysing stories is usually territory claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars. But recently, evolutionary psychologists have begun to look at the human propensity for storytelling from a scientific perspective.

Analysing stories is usually territory claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars. But recently, evolutionary psychologists have begun to look at the human propensity for storytelling from a scientific perspective.

To help us celebrate this milestone anniversary, we invited those listeners to tell us about programs that inspired them to make major life changes, altered their world-views or simply piqued their intellectual curiosity.

Author, provocative intellectual and self-described 'jazz man of ideas', Cornel West talks about righteous anger and the fight for social justice, the lack of integrity in American political office, and his passion for John Coltrane.