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Over the past decade, many of us have been alarmed to learn of the rapidly accelerating extinction of our planets diverse flora and fauna. The 2011 cbc massey lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed new yorker contributor adam gopnik, whose subject is winter the season, the space, the cycle gopnik takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists, and thinkers, who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. Watch neil turok on tvos allan gregg in conversation. The masseys are a prestigious annual broadcast in which a noted canadian or international scholar gives a weeklong series of lectures on a political, cultural or philisophical topic. Created in 1961 in honour of vincent massey, the former governor general of canada, it is widely regarded as one of the most acclaimed lecture series in.
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