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The Sagan Series - Life Looks for Life
The Sagan Series - Part 2
The Sagan Series:
Part 1 - NASA The Frontier is Everywhere
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/user/damewse
The Sagan Series:
Part 1 - NASA The Frontier is Everywhere
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/user/damewse
Stephen Colbert on Governor Rick Perry and his Christian Fundamentalism
Colbert Report: God Calls Rick Perry to Run
With the tough challenges facing America, Rick Perry thinks it's time to hand it over to God and ask Him to jump in.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson - A Conversation about Communicating Science
Recorded: January 20, 2011
The Moon, the Tides and why Neil DeGrasse Tyson is Colbert's God
A conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson from http://www.thesciencenetwork.org
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The Moon, the Tides and why Neil DeGrasse Tyson is Colbert's God
A conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson from http://www.thesciencenetwork.org
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Michael Shermer on the Colbert Report discusses his book "The Believing Brain"
Michael Shermer discusses his book "The Believing Brain" about how people form their beliefs first and then selectively filter data to reinforce rather than refute them.
Richard Dawkins Interviews Derren Brown about Cold Reading
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Penn Jillette - Reading the Bible (Or the Koran, Or the Torah) Will Make An Atheist
The magician was asked to leave his Christian youth group by a pastor who told his parents: "He's no longer learning about the Bible from me. He is now converting everyone in the class to atheism."
Michael Shermer Tests Acupuncture
One of the oldest forms of so-called alternative or complementary medicine is the ancient Chinese art of acupuncture, now claimed by many to be a science. Michael Shermer goes in search of what is behind acupuncture through interviews and getting himself poked!
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Steven Pinker on the Colbert Report talks about how genes work
Stephen wonders if putting your genome on the Internet is like posting the social security number that God gave you.
Steven Pinker on the Colbert Report on Evolution and Neuroscience
Stephen tells Steven Pinker that he doesn't fear evolution because he doesn't believe in it and that he has the kind of brain damage that prevents him from swearing.
George Carlin on the Daily Show
George Carlin gives Jon a list of things he's attacking in his HBO special, "You Are All Diseased."
From 1999
Sam Harris Answers Reddit Questions
Sam Harris, author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape, answers questions submitted by users on Reddit.com.
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Documentary - Madman or Something Worse
Madman or Something Worse is a short film that critically examines the ethics of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Produced by Peter Brietbart, with animations by Many Artists Who Do One Thing.
Source:
http://www.madmanorsomethingworse.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/MadmanMovie
Full Book: "Against the Gods?"
from Freedomain Radio (with captions)
A critical examination of agnosticism and religion by Stefan Molyneux - from Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy show in the world. http://www.freedomainradio.com
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A critical examination of agnosticism and religion by Stefan Molyneux - from Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy show in the world. http://www.freedomainradio.com
http://www.fdrurl.com/atg
Richard Dawkins - Growing Up in the Universe: The Genesis of Purpose (Episode 5)
Oxford professor Richard Dawkins presents a series of lectures on life, the universe, and our place in it. With brilliance and clarity, Dawkins unravels an educational gem that will mesmerize young and old alike. Illuminating demonstrations, wildlife, virtual reality, and special guests (including Douglas Adams) all combine to make this collection a timeless classic.
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Originally broadcast as The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for Children, 1991.
Richard Dawkins - Growing Up in the Universe: The Ultraviolet Garden (Episode 4)
Oxford professor Richard Dawkins presents a series of lectures on life, the universe, and our place in it. With brilliance and clarity, Dawkins unravels an educational gem that will mesmerize young and old alike. Illuminating demonstrations, wildlife, virtual reality, and special guests (including Douglas Adams) all combine to make this collection a timeless classic.
The DVD includes subtitles in English, Spanish, French and Polish.
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Originally broadcast as The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for Children, 1991.
Richard Dawkins - Growing Up in the Universe: Climbing Mount Improbable (Episode 3)
Oxford professor Richard Dawkins presents a series of lectures on life, the universe, and our place in it. With brilliance and clarity, Dawkins unravels an educational gem that will mesmerize young and old alike. Illuminating demonstrations, wildlife, virtual reality, and special guests (including Douglas Adams) all combine to make this collection a timeless classic.
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Originally broadcast as The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for Children, 1991.
Richard Dawkins - Growing Up in the Universe: Designed and Designoid Objects (Episode 2)
Oxford professor Richard Dawkins presents a series of lectures on life, the universe, and our place in it. With brilliance and clarity, Dawkins unravels an educational gem that will mesmerize young and old alike. Illuminating demonstrations, wildlife, virtual reality, and special guests (including Douglas Adams) all combine to make this collection a timeless classic.
Read the transcript:
http://richarddawkins.net/GUITUtranscript
If you enjoy these free videos, please consider purchasing the DVD and/or making a donation to The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science to help us continue our work. Donate here:http://richarddawkinsfoundation.org/donate.php
Originally broadcast as The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for Children, 1991.
Richard Dawkins - Growing Up in the Universe: Waking Up in the Universe (Episode 1)
Oxford professor Richard Dawkins presents a series of lectures on life, the universe, and our place in it. With brilliance and clarity, Dawkins unravels an educational gem that will mesmerize young and old alike. Illuminating demonstrations, wildlife, virtual reality, and special guests (including Douglas Adams) all combine to make this collection a timeless classic.
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The DVD includes subtitles in English, Spanish, French and Polish.
Read the transcript:
http://richarddawkins.net/GUITUtranscript
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The DVD includes subtitles in English, Spanish, French and Polish.
Read the transcript:
http://richarddawkins.net/GUITUtranscript
If you enjoy these free videos, please consider purchasing the DVD and/or making a donation to The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science to help us continue our work. Donate here:http://richarddawkinsfoundation.org/donate.php
Adam Curtis - The Power of Nightmares (Part 3): The Shadows in the Cave
The final episode addresses the actual rise of Al-Qaeda. Curtis argues that, after their failed revolutions, bin Laden and Zawahiri had little or no popular support, let alone a serious complex organization of terrorists, and were dependent upon independent operatives to carry out their new call for jihad. The film instead argues that in order to prosecute bin Laden in absentia for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, US prosecutors had to prove he was the head of a criminal organization responsible for the bombings. They find a former associate of bin Laden, Jamal al-Fadl, and pay him to testify that bin Laden was the head of a massive terrorist organization called "Al-Qaeda". With the September 11th attacks, Neo-Conservatives in the new Republican government of George W. Bush use this created concept of an organization to justify another crusade against a new evil enemy, leading to the launch of the War on Terrorism.
After the American invasion of Afghanistan fails to uproot the alleged terrorist network, the Neo-Conservatives focus inwards, searching unsuccessfully for terrorist sleeper cells in America. They then extend the war on "terror" to a war against general perceived evils with the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The ideas and tactics also spread to the United Kingdom where Tony Blair uses the threat of terrorism to give him a new moral authority. The repercussions of the Neo-Conservative strategy are also explored with an investigation of indefinitely-detained terrorist suspects in Guantanamo Bay, many allegedly taken on the word of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance without actual investigation on the part of the United States military, and other forms of "preemption" against non-existent and unlikely threats made simply on the grounds that the parties involved could later become a threat. Curtis also makes a specific attempt to allay fears of a dirty bomb attack, and concludes by reassuring viewers that politicians will eventually have to concede that some threats are exaggerated and others altogether devoid of reality. "In an age when all the grand ideas have lost credibility, fear of a phantom enemy is all the politicians have left to maintain their power."
Adam Curtis - The Power of Nightmares (Part 2): The Phantom Victory
In the second episode, Islamist factions, rapidly falling under the more radical influence of Zawahiri and his rich Saudi acolyte Osama bin Laden, join the Neo-Conservative-influenced Reagan Administration to combat the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. When the Soviets eventually pull out and when the Eastern Bloc begins to collapse in the late 1980s, both groups believe they are the primary architects of the "Evil Empire's" defeat. Curtis argues that the Soviets were on their last legs anyway, and were doomed to collapse without intervention.
However, the Islamists see it quite differently, and in their triumph believe that they had the power to create 'pure' Islamic states in Egypt and Algeria. However, attempts to create perpetual Islamic states are blocked by force. The Islamists then try to create revolutions in Egypt and Algeria by the use of terrorism to scare the people into rising up. However, the people were terrified by the violence and the Algerian government uses their fear as a way to maintain power. In the end, the Islamists declare the entire populations of the countries as inherently contaminated by western values, and finally in Algeria turn on each other, each believing that other terrorist groups are not pure enough Muslims either.In America, the Neo-Conservatives' aspirations to use the United States military power for further destruction of evil are thrown off track by the ascent of George H. W. Bush to the presidency, followed by the 1992 election of Bill Clinton leaving them out of power.
The Neo-Conservatives, with their conservative Christian allies, attempt to demonize Clinton throughout his presidency with various real and fabricated stories of corruption and immorality. To their disappointment, however, the American people do not turn against Clinton. The Islamist attempts at revolution end in massive bloodshed, leaving the Islamists without popular support. Zawahiri and bin Laden flee to the sufficiently safe Afghanistan and declare a new strategy; to fight Western-inspired moral decay they must deal a blow to its source: the United States.
Adam Curtis - The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (Part 1) - Baby It's Cold Outside
BBC film concerning the parallel development of modern Islamic radicalism and Neo-conservatism. Details the rise of the latter movement and its masquerade as traditional conservatism to garner support and acquire power. This film also discusses the development of the current Arab political ideology and shows how both movements originated from the same basic philosophy: masses are more malleable when they are living in a constant state of fear.
More information: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430484/The first part of the series explains the origin of Islamism and Neo-Conservatism. It shows Egyptian civil servant Sayyid Qutb, depicted as the founder of modern Islamist thought, visiting the U.S. to learn about the education system, but becoming disgusted with what he saw as a corruption of morals and virtues in western society through individualism. When he returns to Egypt, he is disturbed by westernization under Gamal Abdel Nasser and becomes convinced that in order to save society it must be completely restructured along the lines of Islamic law while still using western technology. He also becomes convinced that this can only be accomplished through the use of an elite "vanguard" to lead a revolution against the established order. Qutb becomes a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and, after being tortured in one of Nasser's jails, comes to believe that western-influenced leaders can justly be killed for the sake of removing their corruption. Qutb is executed in 1966, but he influences the future mentor of Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to start his own secret Islamist group. Inspired by the 1979 Iranian revolution, Zawahiri and his allies assassinate Egyptian president Anwar Al Sadat, in 1981, in hopes of starting their own revolution. The revolution does not materialize, and Zawahiri comes to believe that the majority of Muslims have been corrupted not only by their western-inspired leaders, but Muslims themselves have been affected by jahilliyah and thus both may be legitimate targets of violence if they do not join him. They continued to have the belief that a vanguard was necessary to rise up and overthrow the corrupt regime and replace with a pure Islamist state.
At the same time in the United States, a group of disillusioned liberals, including Irving Kristol and Paul Wolfowitz, look to the political thinking of Leo Strauss after the perceived failure of President Johnson's "Great Society". They come to the conclusion that the emphasis on individual liberty was the undoing of the plan. They envisioned restructuring America by uniting the American people against a common evil, and set about creating a mythical enemy. These factions, the Neo-Conservatives, came to power under the Reagan administration, with their allies Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, and work to unite the United States in fear of the Soviet Union. The Neo-Conservatives allege the Soviet Union is not following the terms of disarmament between the two countries, and, with the investigation of "Team B", they accumulate a case to prove this with dubious evidence and methods. President Reagan is convinced nonetheless.
Salman Rushdie - The Fatwa and Islamism
Salman Rusdie talks to Allan Gregg about living under a fatwa, his role as a public commentator, and the state of Islam today in regards to fundamentalism. His latest book is a collection of essays called "Step Across This Line".
(Original broadcast Oct 2002)Source:
http://www.youtube.com/user/AllanGregg
Authors@Google - Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Authors@Google program welcomed Neil deGrasse Tyson to Google's New York office to discuss his book, "The Pluto Files".
This event took place on February 9, 2009.
About the Book:
"The New York Times best-selling author chronicles America's irrational love affair with Pluto, man's best celestial friend.
In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. Far from the sun, tiny, and eccentric in orbit, it's a wonder Pluto has any fans. Yet during the mounting debate over Pluto's status, Americans rallied behind the extraterrestrial underdog. The year of Pluto's discovery, Disney created an irresistible pup by the same name, and, as one NASA scientist put it, Pluto was "discovered by an American for America." Pluto is entrenched in our cultural, patriotic view of the cosmos, and
Neil deGrasse Tyson is on a quest to discover why.
Only Tyson can tell this story: he was involved in the first exhibits to demote Pluto, and, consequently, Pluto lovers have freely shared their opinions with him, including endless hate mail from third graders. In his typically witty way, Tyson explores the history of planet classification and America's obsession with the "planet" that's recently been judged a dwarf."
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks
This event took place on February 9, 2009.
About the Book:
"The New York Times best-selling author chronicles America's irrational love affair with Pluto, man's best celestial friend.
In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. Far from the sun, tiny, and eccentric in orbit, it's a wonder Pluto has any fans. Yet during the mounting debate over Pluto's status, Americans rallied behind the extraterrestrial underdog. The year of Pluto's discovery, Disney created an irresistible pup by the same name, and, as one NASA scientist put it, Pluto was "discovered by an American for America." Pluto is entrenched in our cultural, patriotic view of the cosmos, and
Neil deGrasse Tyson is on a quest to discover why.
Only Tyson can tell this story: he was involved in the first exhibits to demote Pluto, and, consequently, Pluto lovers have freely shared their opinions with him, including endless hate mail from third graders. In his typically witty way, Tyson explores the history of planet classification and America's obsession with the "planet" that's recently been judged a dwarf."
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks
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