A.J. Ayer

A.J. Ayer to discuss the philosophical movement of the 20th century known as, Logical Positivism. It seem TV had it's glory days some time ago. And remember folks, don't judge the tv-show by the face of the host.

1/4

Richard Rhodes: Twilight of the Bombs

A Long Now lecture on the atom bomb, history and possible future

The big debate about nuclear weapons will arrive in 2011

Stefano Mancuso: The roots of plant intelligence

Life: What about the plants?

Sam Harris: The Moral Landscape

Full presentation in NY of his new book the Moral Landscape

The book is great! Read and give it stars on amazon.com

Conways Game of Life

If you read Hawkins The Grand Design you will hit upon The Game of Life - how simple rules result in complex systems.

It's fantastic!

Matthew Taylor

21st Century Enlightenment

Fun with animations!

Religion in the 21st Century

Invironmentalism, the new religion?

See the whole debate:
http://fora.tv/2008/08/19/Would_We_Be_Better_Off_Without_Religion#chapter_03

BBC Panorama

What the Pope knew...

(part 1 of 2)

Stephen Hawkins

The Grand Design

Journalist David McCandless

Let's visualize!

Lawrence Lessing on corruption and lobbyism

Great talk by Mr Lessing

Stephen Baldwin commercial

It's not a joke, just remember, it's America where all things are possible

Restore Stephen Baldwin - watch more funny videos

There are some fun parodies of this video, if you somehow feel this is not parody enough

Johna Lehrer on decisions

Hard decisions: Holy ghost, random luck or a complex neurological process?

Well, there is no randomness in the brain, it's just a few million years of trial and error in a feed-back-loop showing it's results. Works ok, but don't drink and drive.

End of Mr Hitchens?

Well, cool people are no exception ...

John Shelby Spong on the Bibel

He is a highly devoted religious person and makes on of the best refutations of the Bible as a source for knowledge and evidence



What's left Mr. Spong?

Matt Ridley on ideas

Great talk about ideas

Video of the known universe

It's not as large as we can imagine, it is larger then we ever can imagine

13,7 and counting

Neuroscientist David Eagleman

How the Internet can help save the modern civilization



As long as it is up and running ...

Cameron Herold: on entrepreneurs

One of many great ideas about education and the promotion of natural talent

Timothy Ferris

Mr Ferris talks about the rise of liberal democracy and it's relation to advances in
scientific knowledge



70 minutes of interesting liberal history