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What role does food play in our lives? “Your Plate. Our Planet.” Nobel Week Dialogue 2016
Panelists Elizabeth Blackburn (2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Eduardo Nilson, Claude Fischler and Richard Wrangham discuss the important role food plays in our daily lives. Discussion is moderated by Zeinab Badawi. Nobel Week Dialogue is a free of charge, full-day event and part of the official...
Einstein Vs. Newton on Space and Time
Albert Einstein’s theories shook the very foundation of reality, challenging the Newtonian view that space and time are absolute. Science historian David Kaiser and physicist Fay Dowker set the stage for this evolution of understanding about time in this clip from the 2009 World Science Festival program “Time...
The Humans!!
The Sagan Series is an educational project working in the hopes of promoting scientific literacy in the general population
Big Think-Richard Dawkins
The Fact of Evolution, Natural Selection, Rationality of Sex,The Riddle of Consciousness, Richard Dawkins’s Faith, The Making of a Scientific Legend, Richard Dawkins Can Pass as a Cricket, Letting Science Inform Morality, Richard Dawkins on Canning Bill O’Reilly, Richard Dawkins Imagines a World Without God, The Importance of...
The Importance of Doing Useless Things-Richard Dawkins
From poetry and ballet to mathematics and being clever, life is laden with frivolous pursuits that hold no bearing on our ability to survive. However, Dawkins explains that the ability to perform such actions comes as a byproduct of the evolution of the human brain, perhaps because being...
