Saturday, September 15, 2012
The Erosion of Progress by Religions
Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses how Islamic fundamentalist destroyed the enlightenment era of the Middle East and why we should be concerned today.
Church '200 years out of date'
Wow... the church would be so far ahead if this guy was selected instead of Benedict...
In Ill Doctor, a Surprise Reflection of Who Picks Assisted Suicide
Dr. Richard Wesley has an incurable disease but takes solace in knowing that he can decide exactly when, where and how he will die.
Charlie Rose interviews Craig Venter
In the emerging field of synthetic biology and the quest to create syntheitc life, Craig Venter joins to explain how his research team has created man-made DNA in a living organism.
The video TED decided to remove from it's site
Here is the much-talked-about TED talk on inequality given by Nick Hanauer
Why TED pulled the video:
TED and inequality: The real story
And here's an on-line petition:
A petition, calling for ted to post Nick Hanauer's Talk
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows
We’ve all experienced it: The frustration of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do. Or get. Or find.
How to Win at Battleship
Nick Berry, a technology consultant and president of DataGenetics, a data mining company based in Seattle, has meticulously laid out several strategies that will improve your chances of sinking your opponent’s ships before she sinks yours.
Soul Dust: the Magic of Consciousness
Video - 68 minutes.
How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? And why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust, the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research, proposes a startling new theory.
Rethinking "Out of Africa"
Video - 45 minutes.
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"I'm thinking a lot about species concepts as applied to humans, about the "Out of Africa" model, and also looking back into Africa itself. I think the idea that modern humans originated in Africa is still a sound concept. Behaviorally and physically, we began our story there, but I've come around to thinking that it wasn't a simple origin. Twenty years ago, I would have argued that our species evolved in one place, maybe in East Africa or South Africa. There was a period of time in just one place where a small population of humans became modern, physically and behaviourally. Isolated and perhaps stressed by climate change, this drove a rapid and punctuational origin for our species. Now I don’t think it was that simple, either within or outside of Africa."
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