Slavoj Žižek - The Return To Hegel

Slavoj Žižek speaking about Hegel and Hegelian concepts of history and historicity, drawing not only on the works of Marxs Grundrisse and Jacques Lacan, but also on opera, Schoenbergs atonal revolution, the experience of impossibility, Freuds death drive, Steven King, Immanuel Kant, Martin Luthers radical revolution, concepts of authenticity and inauthenticity. In addition, Žižek referenced Alain Baidou, Gilles Deleuze, Pascal, Charlie Chaplin and the role of the spectator in The Grand Dictator, the drive to culture and the true satisfaction of the circular movement. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. 2009

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RSA Animate - The Ideology of Choice

Professor Renata Salecl explores the paralysing anxiety and dissatisfaction surrounding limitless choice. Does the freedom to be the architects of our own lives actually hinder rather than help us? Does our preoccupation with choosing and consuming actually obstruct social change?



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http://www.youtube.com/user/theRSAorg
http://www.thersa.org/
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Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help.

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Janna Levin: The sound the universe makes

We think of space as a silent place. But physicist Janna Levin says the universe has a soundtrack -- a sonic composition that records some of the most dramatic events in outer space. (Black holes, for instance, bang on spacetime like a drum.) An accessible and mind-expanding soundwalk through the universe.

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Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"

As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy

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The Purpose of Purpose - Richard Dawkins

During Richard Dawkins' American tour in March 2009, he gave a talk titled "The Purpose of Purpose". These presentations have been edited together here. The content of the talk remains intact, while the editing moves between the different locations and Richard's Keynote presentation.


This talk was given in Michigan, Minneapolis, Oklahoma and Nebraska.

Filmed at:
University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, Minnesota
University of Oklahoma - Norman, Oklahoma
Holland Performing Arts Center - Omaha, Nebraska

Introductions by:
PZ Myers - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Barry Weaver - Norman, Oklahoma
Richard Holland - Omaha, Nebraska

Filmed and Edited by Josh Timonen

http://www.youtube.com/user/richarddawkinsdotnet
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Barack Obama versus Fundamentalism & Religious Sectarianism

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Philosopher Slavoj Zizek on Democracy Now

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http://www.youtube.com/user/IWantDemocracyNow
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Stephen Jay Gould on Evolution and its Teaching.

Evolutionary Biologist Stephen Jay Gould has a new book called "Dinosaur in a Haystack"; which is a collection of his essays dealing with evolution and its teaching. 
Original broadcast May 1995.

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Office Hours with Miguel Nicolelis on Brain-Machine Interfaces.

Miguel Nicolelis is the Anne W. Deane Professor of Neuroscience and co-director of Duke University's Center for Neuroengineering. He is a native of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he received his M.D. and Ph.D. in neurophysiology from the University of Sao Paulo. He answered questions about his research on brain-machine interfaces during a live "Office Hours" webcast interview March 18, 2011.



 Learn more at http://www.nicolelislab.net.
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Faith-based morality gets Hitchslapped

Hitchens responds to the first question from the Q&A session of the Hitchens/Mcgrath debate: "Without God, what basis do you have for declaring things right or wrong?"

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Christopher Hitchens on Religion and Free Speech

Christopher Hitchens gives a talk in Canada on Free Speech in November 2006. 


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This is the end of the twenty minute speech originally from One Good Move: http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2007/03/free_speech_6.html
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BBC - America's Most Hated Family in Crisis

Louis Theroux's follow-up film to his 2007 original expose of the Westboro Baptist Church; "The most hated family in America".


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BBC - The Most Hated Family in America

TV documentary written and presented by the BBC's Louis Theroux about the Phelps family, at the heart of the Westboro Baptist Church.

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The God Debate II: Harris vs. Craig

The second annual God Debate features atheist neuroscientist Sam Harris and Evangelical Christian apologist William Lane Craig as they debate the topic: "Is Good From God?" The debate was sponsored in large part by the Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters: The Henkels Lecturer Series, The Center for Philosophy of 
Religion and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts.


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Neil deGrasse Tyson - The God of the Gaps.




From: Beyond Belief 2006

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Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke - God, The Universe and Everything Else

Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (via satellite) discuss the Big Bang theory, God, our existence as well as the possibility of extraterrestrial life.


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http://www.youtube.com/user/TheScienceFoundation
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Wafa Sultan talks about the crimes of Islam against women

Wafa Sultan at David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend, Palm Beach, Florida 2007

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Miguel Nicolelis on the Daily Show talks about mind-controlled machines

Miguel Nicolelis will soon help paralyzed people walk again, with a robotic vest that moves according to brain commands.



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Christopher Hitchens on Hannity & Colmes about Rev. Falwell's Death

Christopher Hitchens along with Ralph Reed participate in a debate on the legacy of the Reverend Jerry Falwell. This was recorded from the Hannity and Colmes show of 16-May-2007.

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Stephen Prothero on the Colbert Report talks about the eight most important religions


According to Stephen Prothero, pretending all religions are the same doesn't serve to understand the world.



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Richard Dawkins: One Fact to Refute Creationism

Biologist Richard Dawkins identifies what he views is the single most compelling fact to refute Creationism -- but states that the real problem lies in convincing Creationists to listen to the evidence. "What they do is simply stick their fingers in their ears and say 'La la la,'" says Dawkins. "You cannot argue with a mind like that."



Complete video at:http://fora.tv/2009/10/07/Richard_Dawkins_The_Greatest_Show_on_Earth

Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion created a storm of controversy over the question of God's existence. Now, in The Greatest Show on Earth, Dawkins presents a stunning counterattack against advocates of "Intelligent Design" that explains the evidence for evolution while keeping an eye trained on the absurdities of the creationist argument.

More than an argument of his own, it's a thrilling tour into our distant past and into the interstices of life on earth. Taking us through the case for evolution step-by-step, Dawkins looks at DNA, selective breeding, anatomical similarities, molecular family trees, geography, time, fossils, vestiges and imperfections, human evolution, and the formula for a strong scientific theory.

Dawkins' trademark wit and ferocity is joined by an infectious passion for the beauty and strangeness of the natural world, proving along the way that the mechanisms of the natural world are more miraculous -- a "greater show" -- than any creation story generated by any religion on earth. - Berkeley Arts and Letters

Richard Dawkins is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist and author. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and, until recently, held the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His first book, The Selfish Gene, was an instant international bestseller, and has become an established classic work of modern evolutionary biology.

He is also the author of The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil's Chaplain, The Ancestor's Tale The God Delusion, and most recently, The Greatsest Show on Earth.

Professor Dawkins's awards have included the Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London (1989), the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award (1990), the Nakayama Prize for Achievement in Human Science (1990), The International Cosmos Prize (1997) and the Kistler Prize (2001).

He has Honorary Doctorates in both literature and science, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society. (ForaTv)
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Ray Kurzweil on the Colbert Report


Ray Kurzweil predicts that people will merge with technology and become a billion times smarter by 2045


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Azar Nafisi on politics and women's situation in Iran

Azar Nafisi, the best-selling author of the book "Reading Lolita in Tehran" is back with a new title "Things I have been silent about'. She joins Jian in Studio Q to talk about the book.

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Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins discuss the thopic "Who Says Science has Nothing to Say About Morality?"




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Artificial Organ Regrowth - NOVA ScienceNOW

A clip from NOVA ScienceNOW season 5, episode 2: "Can we live forever?"

Fascinating look at advances in artificial organ growth - from building a human ear inside a mouse, to fully working heart and lungs grown in jars.



Watch the full episode here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/can-we-live-forever.html
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Jim Jefferies on the Stupidity of Religions

Jim Jefferies Talks about Religion. This was taken from his latest special "Alcoholocost" 




Buy the DVD here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jim-Jefferies-Alcoholocaust-DVD/dp/B003XMVGZ0
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TED Talks - Anthony Atala Explains How To Grow New Human Organs

Anthony Atala's state-of-the-art lab grows human organs -- from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an oven-like bioreactor (preheat to 98.6 F) and a machine that "prints" human tissue.


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http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector
http://www.ted.com/
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Slavoj Zizek on the Flaws of Capitalism

Slavoj Zizek, one of the worlds most influential living philosophers, visits the RSA to discuss capitalism's flawed priorities.



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http://www.youtube.com/user/theRSAorg
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Daily Show: Colbert - Jesus Christ Supermodel

Glenda Green met Jesus and painted a portrait of him and in the painting Jesus kinda looks like Kevin Costner.




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Michael Shermer: Why Darwin Matters

Michael Shermer, the founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine, argues Why Darwin Matters: Evolution, Intelligent Design and the Battle for Science and Religion in this talk presented by the Division of Biological Sciences and the Helen Edison Lecture Series at the University of California, San Diego. 




Series: Helen Edison Lecture Series [5/2009] [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 15584]


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http://www.youtube.com/user/UCtelevision
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Bill O'Reilly proves the existence of God, but then Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how tides change.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Colbert Report talks about his show "NOVA Science Now"


Neil deGrasse Tyson tries to make science accessible to whomever wants to reach out and touch it.



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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Colbert Report talks about Dark Matter and Mars

Stephen asks Neil deGrasse Tyson what dark matter is because he doesn't see the color of matter.


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Stephen Colbert visits Neil de Grasse Tyson to learn how to be an astrophysicist.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Colbert Report talks about a new Earth-like planet

Also, Stephen assumes Neil deGrasse Tyson's book, "Death By Black Hole," is a pro-capital punishment argument.



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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Colbert Report trash talk spheres in the running to be new planets

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Colbert Report talks about the Universe, the extinction of Humanity and the planet Pluto

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Daily Show talks about the Space Explorers and Mars

Neil deGrasse Tyson is tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around Earth.



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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Daily Show talks about the Universe

After learning about the universe, Jon needs a hug from Neil deGrasse Tyson.





Neil deGrasse Tyson gives Jon a good piece of advice: avoid black holes.



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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Daily Show talks about the Moon, Mars, and Extraterrestrial Life

Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses the new discoveries of water on the moon and methane on Mars.



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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Daily Show talks about Science and Martian Life

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson gets Jon hot and bothered over science.



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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Daily Show talks about the planet Pluto

Neil deGrasse Tyson got hate mail from third graders because of Pluto.



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Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Colbert Report talks about judging religion


Ayaan Hirsi Ali wants us to shed the inhibition of judging and say that one religion is better than the other.



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Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Colbert Report


Stephen asks Ayaan Hirsi Ali if fundamentalist Christians should battle fundamentalist Muslims.



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Michael Shermer on the Colbert Report


Dr. Michael Shermer, author of "Why Darwin Matters," says we're just as gullible as previous generations.



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Science Saved My Soul

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