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Prospects for Morality: God, Women, and Evolution (Part 1/2)

rembar (http://science.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:13:32 -0700

(22 votes - 7 comments - 367 views)
This is a video of Dr. John Hartung speaking at the Skeptics Society Conference on Evolutionary Psychology and Human Ethics. He's a entertaining speaker and a fascinating lecturer.

Part Two

James Randi and Richard Dawkins Interview

rembar (http://science.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:41:02 -0800

(45 votes - 8 comments - 913 views)
This is a clip of a James Randi and Richard Dawkins discussing the paranormal versus the perinormal, and testing such phenonomena, and the Million Dollar prize. I think Randi's answer to Dawkins' last question on the video is quite admirable and speaks volumes of his mindset.

This interview took place towards the tail end of the Amazing Meeting in 2005, hosted (I believe) by the James Randi Educational Foundation. You can see another clip from this conference, one of Dawkins giving a lecture here:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Richard-Dawkins-on-the-Darwin-awards-Douglas-Adams-more

The Boy With the Incredible Brain - Daniel Tammet

rembar (http://science.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:56:25 -0800

(32 votes - 5 comments - 4195 views)
This is a documentary on one extraordinary (even by savant standards) person: Daniel Tammet. Daniel exhibits, aside from the amazing intellectual capabilites associated with savantism, self-awareness of his mental processes and is a relatively high-functioning autist. This is a huge thing, since most savants cannot function or even survive in a society without plenty of support from others. Thus, Daniel receives the immense abilities of a savant, while missing many of the stereotypical drawbacks.

Thanks to Daniel's agreement to many cognitive experiments and studies, our knowledge of the human brain and its amazing feats, as well the resulting link to social and neurological problems, is expanding by orders of magnitude.

From Wikipedia: Daniel Paul Tammet (born January 31, 1979, London, England) is a British autistic savant gifted with a facility for mathematics problems, sequence memory, and natural language learning. He was born with congenital childhood epilepsy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet

Richard Dawkins on the Darwin awards, Douglas Adams, & more

rembar (http://science.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:51:39 -0800

(62 votes - 10 comments - 1611 views)
This is a speech that Richard Dawkins gave at the Amazing Meeting in 2005 sponsored by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), covering a range of topics on everything from the perinormal and paranormal through quantum computing.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Life, the Universe, and Everything

rembar (http://science.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:58:59 -0800

(39 votes - 7 comments - 1579 views)
Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium for the Museum of Natural History and former Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive (People Magazine 2000), gives a terrific talk about scientific history, astronomy, physics, the ludicracy of intelligent design, British postage stamps, religion, and atheism.

The NY Times has an interesting of certain aspects of the meeting this speech was given at, specifically the divide growing between religion and science. (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/science/21belief.html?ex=1171947600&en=955c27838291d647&ei=5070)

Richard Dawkins responds to Jerry Falwell's students

rembar (http://science.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:50:07 -0800

(183 votes - 86 comments - 4112 views)