Genius of Britain Episode 3 HD

Richard Dawkins Answers Reddit Questions

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Do physicists believe in God?

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Carl Sagan: Wanderers

Carl Sagan: A Universe Not Made For Us

"Excerpts from Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. More specifically, from the chapter titled A Universe Not Made For Us. I edited together the audio from the audio-book, and added the video from Stephen Hawking's Into the Universe and Brian Cox's Wonders of the Solar System."

A Conversation Between Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking

Aired June 3, 2010

A clip from the Channel 4 documentary Genius of Britain.

TED 2010 Michael Shermer: The Pattern Behind Self-Deception

"Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble."

Richard Dawkins at the 'Genius of Britain' centenary talk

Brian Cox: Why we need the explorers

"In tough economic times, our exploratory science programs -- from space probes to the LHC -- are first to suffer budget cuts. Brian Cox explains how curiosity-driven science pays for itself, powering innovation and a profound appreciation of our existence."

The Genius of Britain Episode 2 (HD)

"In this new five-part series, leading scientific figures - Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, James Dyson, David Attenborough, Robert Winston, Paul Nurse, Jim Al-Khalili, Kathy Sykes and Olivia Judson - celebrate the British scientists and inventors who literally created the modern world. The second programme in the series looks at the scientific spark that ignited the Industrial Revolution in Britain. James Dyson tells the story of how a young James Watt was inspired to perfect the steam engine that would change the world forever. Jim Al-Khalili explains how Joseph Priestley, a clergyman with a fascination for gases, discovered the very air we breathe and started a craze for soda water. David Attenborough talks about his hero Joseph Banks, the great naturalist who sailed to the South Seas and founded Kew Gardens on his return. And Robert Winston reveals the extraordinary story of John Hunter, surgeon, anatomist... and body-snatcher."
(Part 2 of 5)


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The Genius of Britain Episode 1

Aired May 30, 2010


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"We may only be a small island, but Britain's great scientists and inventors have literally created the modern world, from the invention of the steam engine, computers and the world-wide web, to the discovery of the theory of evolution and the atom. In a new five-part series some of Britain's leading scientific figures tell the stories of the people behind these innovations. The first programme begins 350 years ago when a small group of friends, colleagues and rivals defied everything that was known about the world at that time. Stephen Hawking and Jim Al-Khalili explain how Isaac Newton saw mathematics at the root of everything, from gravity to light."

(New Series, Part 1 of 5)

TEDTalks Dee Boersma: Pay attention to penguins

"Think of penguins as ocean sentinels, says Dee Boersma -- they're on the frontlines of sea change. Sharing stories of penguin life and culture, she suggests that we start listening to what penguins are telling us."



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TEDTalks - Craig Venter unveils "Synthetic Life"

RDF TV Robert Seyfarth - Theory of Mind

Nathan Myhrvold: Could this laser zap malaria?

"Nathan Myhrvold and team's latest inventions -- as brilliant as they are bold -- remind us that the world needs wild creativity to tackle big problems like malaria. And just as that idea sinks in, he rolls out a live demo of a new, mosquito-zapping gizmo you have to see to believe."

Richard Dawkins: Did Religion Have an Evolutionary Value?

"Richard Dawkins argues that humanity's historical predisposition towards religion and supernatural beliefs may have had an evolutionary utility. "The rule of thumb: 'Believe whatever your parents tell you,' quite clearly could have survival value," says Dawkins."



Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/01/Meet_The_Author_Richard_Dawkins

Authors@Google: Steven Weinberg

"Steven Weinberg is an american physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles. He talks about his new book LAKE VIEWS along with a Q + A at the end."

Voltaire Lecture 2010 - Prof Brian Cox on "The Value of Big Science"

TedTalks Michael Specter: The danger of science denial

Neil deGrasse Tyson on What NASA Means to America's Future