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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks about environmental law and the effects of corporate capitalism on the environment.

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Eleven-year-old piano & violin virtuoso, Ariel Kwan, plays for the conference attendees.

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Major General Lewis MacKenzie, a UN peacekeeper, shares his views about the Canadian military.

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Artist and naturalist Robert Bateman advocates for the preservation of our natural heritage.

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Photographer Edward Burtynsky speaks about his work, and his objective to show how our societies, and everything we do, are connected to the oil…

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Medical researcher Eva Vertes questions the functioning and mechanisms of cancer and suggests a new path for research.

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Severn Cullis-Suzuki talks about bringing her father's brand of environmental recognition into the public sphere, albeit with a heavy dose of her…

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Mars researcher Darlene Lim asks if Canada is able, ready and more specifically willing to organize a mission to Mars.

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Astrophysicist Jaymie Matthews delivers a humourous talk on the state of the cosmos.

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Scientist Alexander Tsiaras.

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Richard Satava, professor of surgery, presents health care technologies under research at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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Astro Teller, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of BodyMedia, speaks about wearable body monitoring technology.

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Architect Jack Diamond.

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Founder of Moller International, Paul Moller, speaks about his invention, the Skycar.

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Robert Munsch shares a different interpretation of one of his classic stories.

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Louis Hawthorne, CEO of Genetics Savings & Clone, discusses pet cloning.

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Author and physician Gabor Maté.

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Renegade Wall Street investor François Parenteau gives a blunt explanation of investing and financial forecasting.

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Environics president and CEO Michael Adams.

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James Lockyer, defense attorney, questions our criminal system while exposing several cases of wrongful convictions.

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Pianists Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt

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Book cover designer Chip Kidd discusses the collaboration between graphics and type in the process of creating book covers.

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Editorial cartoonist Anita Kunz presents parts of her portfolio while discussing her perception that there is an increasing fear in society with…

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Terry Mosher (AKA Aislin) discusses his work as a political cartoonist for the Montreal Gazette across a 30-year timeline.

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Jazz musician Jane Bunnett gets the crowd dancing with her scorching Afro-Cuban jazz performance.

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National affairs columnist Paul Wells speaks about the explosion of the value of time and its consequence on the cultural, art and media industries.

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Thirteen-year-old blues guitarist and singer Jimmy Bowskill blows the audience away.

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Olympics committee member Dick Pound.

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Ergonomic designer Bryce Rutter talks about good design, criticizes everyday use products and explains what product design should take into…

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Dr. Guy Miller and polar explorer Ben Saunders present their 4-month expedition in Antarctica dedicated to children with inherited energy impairment…

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Mark Liponis, a holistic health care specialist, explains his unique way of approaching health by presenting American poet and essayist John Perry…

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Gene Specialist Josef Penninger speaks about his discovery of a cure for lung failure diseases while studying the SARS virus.

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Tele-robotic surgeon and Scientific Director & CEO, Centre for Surgical Invention & Innovation (CSii) Dr. Mehran Anvari.

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Former premier Canadian ballerinas Evelyn Hart and Veronica Tennant discuss their passion for dance.

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Playwright Tomson Highway speaks about mythology and entertains the audience on the piano.

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The beautiful twin sisters of Duo Similia play selections from Bizet's Carmen on flute and guitar.

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Major General Richard Rohmer.

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Legendary journalist Peter C. Newman.

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Richard Greenblatt - one half of 2 Pianos, 4 Hands - offers a preview of his 2006 show based on the works of pianist-satirist Tom Lehrer.

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Montreal-based violinist Helmut Lipsky displays his avant-garde style while a pianist accompanies him with innovative key-pounding.

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Filmmaker Brad Peyton explains how his stuttering film proposal won him a 13-show series on CBC.

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Animator Chris Landreth shows an extract of Ryan and explains what he wanted to communicate with his animated short film about animator Ryan Larkin.

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The Celtic-based musical ensemble Quagmyre presents a few songs and step dancing performances.

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Sarita and Shiv Sud, co-owners of Laughing Yoga Club.

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Journalist Scott Taylor draws gasps from the audience with his stories of being held hostage in Iraq.

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Public safety advisor Dr. James Young says more frequent and complex emergencies are inevitable, because human error is letting the disease genie out…

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Medical reporter Carolyn Abraham, who studied Albert Einstein's brain.

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Journalist, author and child activist June Callwood speaks about her life experiences in activism.

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Toronto real estate developer Harry Stinson.

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Among other questions, Seed magazine founder Adam Bly asks, "Is there room for God in science?"

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Biological Evolutionist and AI Astronomer Richard Terrile compares computers to human brains explaining the evolution of computation and its future…

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Mars Space Explorer Dave Lavery speaks about the creation of the first robot to take pictures on Mars.

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Ken Danby, a contemporary realist painter, speaks about society's common perception of art and explains why it is important to keep arts as part of…

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Political cartoonist Terry Mosher, AKA Aislin

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Writer Mark Abley gives discusses how languages survive and adapt.

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Artist Gunther von Hagens, who invented the plastination technique for his travelling corpse museum, brings samples from real human heads on stage…

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Alan Hirsch, a neurologist and psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of smell and taste loss, speaks about the relationship between smell and…

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Photographer Rick Smolan.

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Musician Adam Cohen, son of famous poet and musician Leonard Cohen, performs.

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Gord Downie, frontman for the legendary Canadian rock Band The Tragically Hip, talks about and performs songs about his love for Canada.

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Dr. Dave Irvine-Halliday, founder of the Light Up the World Foundation, presents the work his foundation is doing in communities of the third world…

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Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, challenges the notion of religious moderation.

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Circumnavigator Derek Hatfield - one of only 126 sailors to trek around the world solo, and the only Canadian to complete the 28,700-mile race -…

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Craig Kielburger - founder of Free The Children - and his brother Marc talk about their foundation, which is the largest international network of…

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Lawyer and environmentalist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., fires out at polluters and explains why his crusade against profit-hungry polluters is more than…

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Architect Douglas Cardinal describes his creative process as inspired by nature.

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Author and medicine hunter Chris Kilham, talks about the gradual erasure of native knowledge and culture.

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Documentary director and producer, Simcha Jacobovici, speaks about his documentary Exodus Decoded and the process leading to it.

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Sciecne author and TV host Jay Ingram.

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Author & filmmaker Michael Lennick.

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Professor, philosopher and composer David Rothenberg.

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Musician, recording artist and inventor Jerry Riopelle

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Environmental philanthropist Gordon Blankstein

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James Hughes, Executive Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies & World Transhumanist Association.

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Environmentalist Tzeporah Berman, Program Director at ForestEthics.

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Here, at age 87, Pete Seeger shows us he's still, as Moses puts it, "agitating, and active as all get out." Between performances of his work…

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Poet Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

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Swedish biologist Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak

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Tanya Jones, Chief Operating Officer of Alcor.

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Automotive industry executive Andy Eggleston.

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Radio host Mike Papantonio.

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Mountain climber Urszula Tokarska.

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Mountian climber Warren McDonald.

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Journalist Barbara Turnbull explains how she became an advocate for the disabled, especially regarding accessibility.

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Dentist Cameron Clokie.

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William Tsiaris, Professor & Chairman, Department of Opthalmology, Brown University.

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Psychoanalyst and writer Corrine Maier.

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Comedy duo Bowser and Blue.

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Magician Franz Harary explains his techniques of illusion (without giving anything too specific away), while demonstrating a variety of beguiling…

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Illustrator John Howe speaks about the difference between drawing and writing and why he chose to illustrate fantasy.

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Co-founders of Opera Atelier Jeannette Zing and Marshall Pynkosi.

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Mike Lazaridis, founder and co-CEO fo Research in Motion, creators of the BlackBerry.

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Samantha Nutt discusses her experience treating patients in conjunction with War Child Canada

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William Sampson denounces the use of torture as a method of western governments, including Canada, to gather information explaining its inefficiency…

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Former Minister of Justice, Irwin Cotler, speaks about justice at a national and international level taking as an example what our government does…

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Musician and inventor John Q. Walker.

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Greg Harper, president of Harpervision

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Athlete, producer and creative director Steven Rechtschaffner.

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Sciencefiction author and musician, Spider Robinson shares his passion for space exploration and the hope that one day we will populate space.

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Conrad Black opens up about his legal issues and subsequent media criticisms.

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Thirteen-year-old jazz singer Nikki Yanofsky shares a gorgeous and powerful rendition of the Beatles' "With A Little Help From My Friends."

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John Helliwell, co-director of CIFARs Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being program, speaks about the different factors that increase life…

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Dennis Danielson, Professor & Head of English, University of British Columbia

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Brenda Andrews, Program Director, Genetic Networks program, CIFAR

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Richard Yanofsky, co-founder of WowWee.

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Classical ensemble Gyrphon Trio

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Physicist Lisa Randall.

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Chemist & Nobel laureate John Polanyi.

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Evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins speaks about religion from an evolutionary and atheistic perspective.

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

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Islamic scholar Ingrid Mattson.

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Pastor Jay Bakker

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Daniel Theobald, principal inventor of the BEAR (Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot).

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Game designer and professor Brenda Braithwaite.

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Undersea explorer Joseph MacInnis

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Acrobatic circus troupe 7 Fingers.

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Entomologist Stephen Marshall.

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Marine biologist Ronald Keith O'Dor.

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Scholar, storyteller and horseman J. Edward Chamberlin.

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Primatologist & author Frans B. M. de Waal.

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Primatologist Biruté Galdikas.

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Environmental activist and Greenpeace Foundation co-founder Paul Watson, founder and leader of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, speaks about…

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Bill Lishman, pioneer in ultralight aviation, speaks about his experience as the first human to lead flying birds in formation and how his ultralight…

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The "once-upon-a-time bad boy of Canadian music" treats the audience to a rousing solo performance. Though he's minus his infamous kilt, the passion…

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Marimba soloist Anne Julie Caron.

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Tuba soloist Karen Bulmer.

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Journalist Carl Honoré.

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Journalist and author James MacKinnon.

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One act of destruction leads to another. Andrew Nikiforuk discusses the heart of the climate problem: Oil. More specifically, the Alberta Tar Sands…

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Scott Griffith, CEO & President of Zipcar, speaks about transportation issues and the benefits of car sharing.

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Ian Clifford, founder and CEO of ZENN Motor Company.

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Physician & biochemist Étienne-Émile Baulieu.

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George Merriam, Professor of Medicine & OB/GYN, University of Washington, Seattle

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Historian Charlotte Gray.

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Daniel J. Levitin, James McGill Professor of psychology, music, and computer science at McGill University.

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Physicist David Schurig.

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Terry Mosher (aka Aislin). Ricky Blue, George Bowser, and Josh Freed present a twenty-minute extract from the show that describes the story of…

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Chris Wood, author of Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America.

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Writer Richard Preston.

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Donald Yeomans, Senior Research Scientist at NASA.

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Alfons Weersink, Professor, Department of Food, Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Guelph.

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Esteemed food critic Gina Mallet.

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Hungry Planet co-creators Peter Menzel and Faith D'Alusio.

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Yiddish rapper Socalled (Josh Dolgin).

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Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule.

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Molecular geneticist Steve Scherer.

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Microbiologist Curtis Suttle.

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Machine learning visionary Brendan Frey.

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Dark matter physicist Mark Chen.

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Alan Broadbent, Chairman & CEO of Avana Capital Corporation.

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Business developer, gun control advocate and former politician Bill Marovitz.

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The seven powerhouse musicians of Leahy present their lively performance, a rich mix of Celtic traditions and contemporary savvy.

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Acrobatic circus troupe 7 Fingers.

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A self-proclaimed "troublemaker," Ezra Levant is passionate and empowering in his discussion of freedom of speech in Canada. After being prosecuted…

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Canadian public commentator Rudyard Griffiths.

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Former Chairman & CEO of Playboy Enterprises Christie Hefner and clinical psychologist and newspaper columnist Susan Pinker discuss the sexual…

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Psychoanalyst and writer Corinne Maier.

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Beloved Canadian author Margaret Atwood.

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Art restoration pioneers Pascal Cotte and Jean Penicault present the multispectral high definition digitization system for Fine Arts, Lumiere…

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Senior Science Advisor, US ARMY Medical Research, Richard Satava.

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Sci-fi author Ben Bova.

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Jill Tarter, Director of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute's Center for SETI Research.

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Robert (Bob) Richards, Founder and CEO of Odyssey Moon Limited, shares his passion and the importance of space exploration and commercial as well as…

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Ray Kurzweil discusses the evolution of biotechnology and what it means for human longevity.

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Google Lunar X Prize founder, Peter Diamandis, talks about how he turned his dream of going into space and bringing other people with him- into…

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Political cartoonist Terry Mosher (AKA Aislin).

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Matthew Diffee, cartoonist at The New Yorker, explains the different techniques he uses to create his humorous cartoons.

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Cartoonist Ann Telnaes.

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Art and literary comics publisher Chris Oliveros.

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Lawyer and bodybuilder Bill Friedman.

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Deb Roy, Director of the Cognitive Machines group at MIT Media Lab.

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Record-setting Canadian astronaut Dr. Dave Williams.

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Artificial intelligence expert David Levy.

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Michael Rose, Professor & Director of NERE, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine

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Activist and author Betty Krawczyk.

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Filmmaker John Houston.

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Everlasting life pioneer Aubrey de Grey poses a question: How can we defeat aging?

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Michael Rae, Research Assistant in the field of radical anti-aging biomedicine, presents calorie restriction as the only intervention able to slow…

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Brass quintet Canadian Brass.

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World Beat Big Band Manteca take to the ideaCity stage.

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Jun Ye, the developer of the most accurate atomic clock ever built.

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Singularity University aims to "assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of…

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NetApp has successfully navigated through every major cycle in business: from the frenetic mentality of a startup, through the tumultuous period of…

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Hiring decisions and performance evaluations are affected by common biases, such as favoring tall or attractive candidates. Professor Flynn provides…

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Inspiring others is a "soft skill," one that many believe you need to be born with to possess. But in their research, Dr. Zenger and his colleagues…