 | IDEAS airs Monday to Friday on CBC Radio One
at 8 p.m. (8:30 p.m. NT) and 4 a.m. (4:30 a.m. NT) | |  | Monday, November 30, 2020 | |  | Many young women believe getting plastic surgery to enhance their appearance is empowering. (Tomasz Kobiela/Shutterstock) | | | * Please note this schedule is subject to change. | | | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 | | | Botox Nation | When a woman opts to get plastic surgery done to enhance her appearance, she enters complex and fraught territory. Some claim it's self-exploitation, tying a woman's sense of self to her looks. But an increasing number of younger women view plastic surgery as empowering. And women in disadvantaged areas throughout the global south have their own perspectives. In countries like Brazil, some disadvantaged women see it as socially liberating. This documentary by contributor Maggie Reid examines the fault lines that define what she calls Botox Nation. | | | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 | | | Bridging Divides in the Wake of a Global Pandemic | The Coronovirus era will be remembered for revealing and exacerbating existing fault lines: widening the distance between the haves and the have-nots, reversing hard-won gains for the poor and for women, and for fueling fear of the "other." The effect of these deepened divides are glaring on the global scale too, marking the experience of living through this pandemic in ways so stark, you can easily trace them on the world map. The 2020 Victoria Forum, jointly hosted by the University of Victoria and the Senate of Canada, convened an online gathering of more than 1,300 policy makers, academics, business leaders and civil society to ask the question: how can we bridge these divides in the wake of a pandemic? | | | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 | | | Ursula Franklin, Part One | Before iPads and Playstations, before AI medicine and laser weaponry, there was The Real World of Technology. In these influential 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, the pioneering scientist and renowned humanitarian Ursula Franklin defines technology simply as "practice, the way we do things around here." By reflecting deeply and clearly on how that practice has changed over time, these lectures have much to say about the ways technology imposes itself on how we live and work now. | | | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 | | | TBA
| | |  | Singer-songwriter Frank Zappa in concert, Sept. 15, 1972.(Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images) | | | | | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 | | | Dangerous Kitchen, Part One | | In 1992, producer Philip Coulter took a team to Los Angeles to interview the famous — and notorious —musician Frank Zappa for a series about ‘How Music Works’. Zappa was very ill at the time (he died the following year), and there wasn’t enough in the interviews for the series as planned. Ten years later, Philip Coulter went back to LA to complete the project, to interview musicians and others who had worked with Zappa, and to explore a different question: how did this prolific, iconoclastic and ever-inventive composer and musician actually go about creating his groundbreaking and timeless music? | | |  | Listen whenever you want.
Get the latest or catch up on past episodes of Ideas, CBC Radio's program of contemporary thought. Subscribe to the podcast | | | |  | Rats have been used as work animals sniffing for gunpowder residue. They've also been used for demining and animal-assisted therapy. (The Associated Press) | | | IDEAS IN THE AFTERNOON | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 at 2 p.m. | | | | | The squeaking in the sewers, the darting shadow in the alley — rats have been part of the human story for millennia, and with climate change and increasing urbanization likely to favour rats, the story is far from over. But some researchers say that if we want to control rats, we need to shift the narrative away from blaming them for our problems, towards acknowledging the role humans have to play in this dynamic. In part two of this two-part series on rats, IDEAS contributor Moira Donovan examines how coming to grips with the pests who share our spaces may mean appreciating them as animals in their own right. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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