Category: View from Giants’ shoulder
Tuesday with Bill-How Do I Engage Skeptics in Meaningful Climate Change Discussion?’
Transcript – Danny Miller: Hello Bill. My name is Danny Miller. Politically I tend to be conservative. I believe that anthropogenic global warming is real and that the Big Bang Theory and evolution are perfectly valid theories. Obviously this puts me at odds with most people in my...
Mindfulness is Powerful, But Keep Religion Out of It -Sam Harris
Sam Harris says that stress-reductive benefits of meditation are rather trivial compared to the insights one can discover about the nature of the self. And though such mindfulness practices can and should be approached secularly, the business of religion is all too often a forced and unnecessary part...
Q&A – What We Cannot Know -Royal Institution-(Quest Sunday special)
Is there a distinction between something that doesn’t exist and something we don’t know? Is there a limit to what science can tell use? Marcus du Sautoy answers questions from the audience after his talk.
What We Cannot Know(the Royal institute lecture (Quest Sunday special)
Is it possible that we will one day know everything? Or are there fields of research that will always lie beyond the bounds of human comprehension? Marcus du Sautoy(click here to know about him ) investigates.Former Christmas Lecturer Marcus du Sautoy will lead us on a thought-provoking expedition...
We Need to Teach Kids Creative Thinking-
“Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking,” says the professor and theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss. “And therefore what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions.” Transcript – Education is far less about a set...
Royal Institute Christmas Lectures (Carl Sagan)-1977- The Earth as a Planet-(A quest new year week special)
In this Christmas Lecture, American astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan (click here to see his wiki page) explores planet Earth and the place, scale and geometry of the “pale blue dot” in the Solar System. Sagan provides a unique insight into the history of our knowledge of the...
Richard Dawkins – CHRISTMAS LECTURES 1991 – Growing up in the Universe(a quest new year week special)
The world-famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins presents the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES in 1991. Original broadcast live on the BBC, the series explored “our own growing knowledge of how life grows up in the universe.” This is the first lecture in the series entitled “Waking up in the...
Tuesday with Bill-If Scientific Discoveries Are Dangerous, Should They Be Censored?’
Transcript – Taylor Packard: Hey Bill Nye it’s Taylor Packard. I was wondering what you think about the censorship of scientific discoveries if the discovery could be used in a hurtful way. If there were censorship how should the censorship process be designed and what groups should...
