# Lorne Trottier

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Trottier Symposium — Confronting Pseudoscience: The Threat of Pseudoscience

The 6th annual Trottier Symposium focuses on the difference between science and “pseudo” science. While real science accumulates facts and formulates testable theories to gain a unified understanding of the physical world, pseudoscience relies on anecdotes, ideology and cherry-picked data to suppor…

Avoiding dangerous climate change: Geo-engineering or mitigation? (Part 2)

In this year's Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium, climate scientists and a historian of science will discuss the scientific and social ramifications of geo-engineering Earth's climate.

Apes or Angels: What is the Origin of Ethics? (Part 1)

The Lorne Trottier Science Symposium brings together an international panel of experts in economics and evolutionary biology to see what economic theory and natural selection have to say about ethics and human development.

AstroMcGill Episode 59 – Sara Seager

Sara Seager was one of the invited guest of the Lorne Trottier 2014 Public Science Symposium, and we had the chance for record a podcast with her. The topic of this episode was the search for planets outside of our Solar System, including planets that could be hosting life, and how we would detect …

Trottier Symposium — Confronting Pseudoscience: Roundtable

The 6th annual Trottier Symposium focuses on the difference between science and “pseudo” science. While real science accumulates facts and formulates testable theories to gain a unified understanding of the physical world, pseudoscience relies on anecdotes, ideology and cherry-picked data to suppor…

Origin of Life: What was the Spark of Life? (Part 2)

The Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium brings together leading scientific experts with differing views on the origin of life to debate a question that has been asked for millennia. [flashvideo file="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/pods/scienceandtechnology/P090093_Trottier_2007_02.m4v" height=344 i…

Avoiding dangerous climate change: Geo-engineering or mitigation? (Part 1)

In this year's Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium, climate scientists and a historian of science will discuss the scientific and social ramifications of geo-engineering Earth's climate.

Trottier Symposium – Are We Alone?: Looking for Technosignatures

This year's Trottier Symposium narrows in on the topics of the origin of life on Earth as well as the possibilities of extraterrestrial life. The second speaker is Dr. Jill Tarter (SETI Institute), who was named onf ot eh Time 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2004 and Time 25 in Space in…

Making Waves, Episode 27 - Lorne Trottier, Matrox Video

Matrox Video co-founder and president, Lorne Trottier reflects on 50 years in the industry, looks ahead to InfoComm and reveals more about the company's open source codec development.   

Making Waves, Episode 27 - Lorne Trottier, Matrox Video

Matrox Video co-founder and president, Lorne Trottier reflects on 50 years in the industry, looks ahead to InfoComm and reveals more about the company's open source codec development.