Golden Crocoduck nominees ponder improbability

Science vs. the Feelies

Fighting Creeping Creationism

Religious fundamentalists backed by the right wing are finding increasingly stealthy ways to challenge evolution with the dogma of creationism. Their strategy includes passing education laws that encourage teaching creationism alongside evolution, and supporting school vouchers to transfer taxpayer money from public to private schools, where they can push a creationist agenda. But they didn’t count on 19-year-old anti-creationism activist Zack Kopplin.

From the time he was a high school senior in his home state of Louisiana, Kopplin has been speaking, debating, cornering politicians and winning the active support of 78 Nobel Laureates, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New Orleans City Council, and tens of thousands of students, teachers and others around the country. The Rice University history major joins Bill to talk about fighting the creep of creationist curricula into public school science classes and publicly funded vouchers that end up supporting creationist instruction
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Wonders of Life – Trailer – BBC Two

Professor Brian Cox examines the story of life through physics in a major new series for BBC Two – Wonders of Life

Nice trailer

Richard Dawkins & Ricky Gervais on Religion

Full interview. Snippets of this were used in Richard Dawkins recent documentary for more4.

Creationist Senator wants to know how to turn E. Coli into Humans

A creationist Senator in Louisiana wants to know how E. Coli. turn into humans during a debate over whether to repeal Louisiana’s creationism law.

The Stupid, it burns….

Dumbest question award (“The QQOQQ”) 2012

The QQOQQ is the Defiance in Ignorance Prize, awarded for the dumbest question asked in the arrogant belief that there is no possible answer.

Sex, Death And The Meaning Of Life Richard Dawkins

Episode 2
Richard Dawkins explores what science can tell us about death.
It’s a journey that takes him from Hindu funeral pyres in India to genetics labs in New York.
Dawkins brings together the latest neuroscience, evolutionary and genetic theory to examine why we crave life after death, why we evolved to age and how the human genome is something like real immortality – traits inherited from our distant ancestors that we pass on to future generations.

He meets a Christian dying of motor neurone disease, reminisces about the Wall Street Crash with a 105-year-old stockbroker, and interviews James Watson, the geneticist who co-discovered the structure of DNA.

Dawkins admits to sentimentality in imagining his own church funeral, but he argues we must embrace the truth, however hard that is.

In a television first, he has his entire genome sequenced to reveal the genetic indicators of how he himself may die.

Sex, Death And The Meaning Of Life

In this thought-provoking series, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explores how life might look without religion. First, he examines issues surrounding sex and the notion of sin.

The Great Escape

New from UppruniTegundanna
Speakers:
Christopher Hitchens,Daniel Dennett quoting Paul MacCready
SpokenVerse reading Dulce et Decorum est, by Wilfred Owen
Carl Sagan,Stephen Hawking,Carl Sagan (again),Neil deGrasse Tyson quoting Antoine de Saint-Exupery