Wednesday 18 September 2013

Video Links for your Instruction and Entertainment

We only got round to showing two videos at our meeting. I give links to those, and also to others by Richard Dawkins and A. C. Grayling, and a number of others that I have found of interest recently.

Militant Atheism by Richard Dawkins
http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_dawkins_on_militant_atheism.html

What's Next for Atheism by A. C. Grayling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGrqZXI2LiY

There are numerous other TED talks (put a name in the search box):
http://www.ted.com/talks

RD interviews creationist Wendy Wright (1 hour)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AS6rQtiEh8

The unofficial Richard Dawkins Channel (lots of videos)
http://www.youtube.com/user/dawkinschannel

The Official Richard Dawkins Channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/richarddawkinsdotnet

Think Week: RD with Stephen Law talking philosophy (1.5 hour)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvkbiElAOqU

"Rare Interview" about religion in america
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaH8_Omskxg

Peter Boghossian: Street Epistemology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mEJcABKtXE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0mEJcABKtXE&app=desktop

Sam Harris: Science can Answer Moral Questions
http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_science_can_show_what_s_right.html?

Daniel Dennett on "deepity"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg-4fmbpZ-M

School Segregation taken to the limit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcVGW1-mm28&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1

Robert Spencer controversy on Hate Speech
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/09/video-robert-spencer-speaking-on-hate-speech-toronto-september-17-2013.html

The following are more science-based

Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty Truth and Physics
http://www.ted.com/talks/murray_gell_mann_on_beauty_and_truth_in_physics.html?

Higgs Boson explained??
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/september-2013/famous-higgs-analogy-illustrated

The lost codex of Archimedes
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2P3mDm/:1tMoo$IUj:Q!zUNjcK/www.ted.com/talks/william_noel_revealing_the_lost_codex_of_archimedes.html/?

A YouTube video about Fractals (nearly an hour):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk6QU94xAb8
It includes interviews with Benoit Mandelbrot himself (about 8 minutes in).

George Monbiot: For more wonder rewild the world.
http://www.ted.com/talks/george_monbiot_for_more_wonder_rewild_the_world.html

There are many others I could have linked to: search for yourself.

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