Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Jonathan Haidt: The New Science of Morality
Haidt connects bottom-up and top down approaches in psychology and neurology, evolutionary theory and moral philosophy to deliver this deliciously appealing Humean perspective on the age old conundrum of morality. Persuasive, illuminating, clear and insightful - you won't forget this one.
▼ Watch the talk
▼ Watch the panel discussion
Read the transcript.
Download this talk as an mp3.
Cognitive Bias
▼ Watch The Cognitive Bias Song
▼ Watch Pitfalls of Thinking: Cognitive Bias
▼ Watch Pitfalls of Thinking: Anecdotal Evidence
▼ Watch Eliezer Yudkowsky Lecture: Heuristics, Biases & Rationality (20 mins)
Wikipedia: Cognitive Bias, List of Cognitive Biases
Ben Goldacre: Placebo, Nocebo
The first is a short discussion of the placebo effect made for the NHS choices website (a great website btw, especially the Daily Mail debunking "behind the headlines" section).
The second is Goldacre's contribution to Robin Ince's Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People, where he discusses the amazing nocebo effect - "placebo's evil twin".
▼ Click to reveal videos
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
▼ Watch The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Craig Venter Talks
▼ Watch The Richard Dimbleby Lecture 2007 | Dr. J. Craig Venter
▼ Watch Craig Venter@GoogleTalks
The Genius of Charles Darwin
▼ Watch Episode One: Life, Darwin & Everything
▼ Watch Episode Two: The The Fifth Ape
▼ Watch Episode Three: God Strikes Back
Large Hadron Rap
Today (Tuesday 30th March 2010) those brilliant boys and girls working at the CERN laboratory successfully collided two proton beams in the Large Hadron Collider. To celebrate, watch this awesome rap written and performed by CERN staff members, which explains just about everything you need to know about high energy particle collisions (unless you are a particle physicist, in which case I imagine you need to know a huge amount more).
▼ Credits etc.
Rappin' about CERN's Large Hadron Collider! Links below...
Apparently YouTube fixed the sound! Still, Will Barras made two options trying to get around the original problems:
Other YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T
Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/1431471?pg=embed...
Vimeo is downloadable if you log in.
There has been a lot of interest in the original mp3, lyrics, and vocals for remixing. You can find all that here:
https://www.msu.edu/~mcalpin9/lhc_rap...
There's also been interest in translation. You can get a subtitle-free version from Vimeo here (downloadable):
http://www.vimeo.com/1730771
With backing track available here (with and without Hawking-style voice):
http://barras.ws/rappin.html
Go ahead and translate, rap it, and post it! Just give us a shout-out, and it's probably a good idea to include the following credits ;-)
Images came from:
particlephysics.ac.uk, space.com, the Institute of Physics, NASA, Symmetry, and Marvel
I forgot Einstein Online, and they called me out:http://www.einstein-online.info
And I forgot Physics World (dunno what I was thinking when I put together the extra dimensions bit). Steve Abel set me to rights (but made no demands): http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/p...
The talented dancers doubled as camera people, with some work by Neil Dixon. Stock footage is CERN's.
Will Barras is responsible for the killa beats:
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~s9527813/
And thanks to MC Hawking, who first thought of using computer-voice to bring Stephen Hawking to the world of rap :-)
http://www.mchawking.com/
The rapper has a day job (we agree this is a good thing) as a science writer.
http://www.katemcalpine.com
They'll have a lot of data to sort. 15 million GB per year, actually. Want to get involved and donate your computer's downtime? Try LHC@home:http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/
Apparently YouTube fixed the sound! Still, Will Barras made two options trying to get around the original problems:
Other YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T
Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/1431471?pg=embed...
Vimeo is downloadable if you log in.
There has been a lot of interest in the original mp3, lyrics, and vocals for remixing. You can find all that here:
https://www.msu.edu/~mcalpin9/lhc_rap...
There's also been interest in translation. You can get a subtitle-free version from Vimeo here (downloadable):
http://www.vimeo.com/1730771
With backing track available here (with and without Hawking-style voice):
http://barras.ws/rappin.html
Go ahead and translate, rap it, and post it! Just give us a shout-out, and it's probably a good idea to include the following credits ;-)
Images came from:
particlephysics.ac.uk, space.com, the Institute of Physics, NASA, Symmetry, and Marvel
I forgot Einstein Online, and they called me out:http://www.einstein-online.info
And I forgot Physics World (dunno what I was thinking when I put together the extra dimensions bit). Steve Abel set me to rights (but made no demands): http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/p...
The talented dancers doubled as camera people, with some work by Neil Dixon. Stock footage is CERN's.
Will Barras is responsible for the killa beats:
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~s9527813/
And thanks to MC Hawking, who first thought of using computer-voice to bring Stephen Hawking to the world of rap :-)
http://www.mchawking.com/
The rapper has a day job (we agree this is a good thing) as a science writer.
http://www.katemcalpine.com
They'll have a lot of data to sort. 15 million GB per year, actually. Want to get involved and donate your computer's downtime? Try LHC@home:http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/
Atom
It's just as good as Al-Khalili's recent documentary, The Secret Life of Chaos, which you can watch here.
▼ Watch Episode 1: Clash of the Titans
▼ Watch Episode 2: Key to the Cosmos
▼ Watch Episode 3: The Illusion of Reality
Does Homeopathy Work? - feat Dr. Ben Goldacre
Footage of a debate titled "Does Homeopathy Work" held three years ago in the Natural History Museum. The wonderful Ben Goldacre (badscience.net, Guardian column) goes head to head with clinical director of the Royal National Homeopathic Hospital, Dr. Peter Fisher.
▼ Watch 'Does Homepathy Work?'
The Secret Life of Chaos
It may have disappeared from iPlayer, but you can still watch it here - perhaps the greatest science documentary of the past few years, The Secret Life of Chaos. A fantastic layman's introduction to chaos theory, presented by Jim Al-Khalili. You'll want to watch it a couple of times to take it all in, but it's a rewarding, mind-bending, and ultimately beautiful learning experience.- Watch The Secret Life of Chaos at Tudou
The Selfish Green
The Selfish Green was the opening event of Wildscreen 2004, a debate on the future of conservation led by Jonathan Dimbleby with Sir David Attenborough, Professor Richard Dawkins, Dr Jane Goodall and Dr Richard Leakey. Oh yes.
Dangerous Knowledge
In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.
Source: bbc.co.uk
The Enemies of Reason
▼ Watch Episode One: Slaves to Superstition
▼ Watch Episode Two: The Irrational Health Service
The Genius of Charles Darwin - Uncut Interviews
Uncut Richard Dawkins interviews from The Genius of Charles Darwin. Some really wonderful, even life affirming stuff.
You can buy the full 3-DVD set of uncut interviews, over 18 hours, in the RichardDawkins.net store: http://richarddawkins.net/store/index...
Click to reveal videos.
Conscious Entities
This blog-style website about consciousness is full of sharp, insightful analysis of new ideas in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy. It is run by a chap called Peter Hankins who is perhaps the smartest and most interesting person I have come across on the web.
This website a must-see for anyone interested in understanding consciousness.
In addition to Peter's highly readable articles, he has provided many pages of background information about all the leading thinkers in the field, run-downs of all the major schools of thought, and enough introductory information to engage any layperson in this fascinating and exciting subject.
Daniel Dennett: Ants, Terrorism, and the Awesome Power of Memes
A fantastic clip of Dennett talking about Meme Theory.
Also:
Dennett's 2007 speech for Atheist Alliance International
Dennett makes some interesting points here, and fans will enjoy seeing him do his usual schtick of bold evolutionary hypothesising and down-to-earth philosophy. I would have enjoyed this more if the audience in the room weren't clearly a bunch of self-congratulatory intellectual narcissists.
www.sciencestage.com
www.sciencestage.com
Visions of the Future
Michio Kaku's cheery and optimistic vision of the future is laid out in his 2007 BBC4 documentary. It's a brave new world with strong appeal for Star Trek fans and teleologists, with enough disturbing undertones to keep you misery junkies happy.
- Episode One - The Intelligence Revolution
- Episode Two - The Biotech Revolution
- Episode Three - The Quantum Revolution
Unfortunately for anyone who has derived some sort of solace from Kaku's bright ideas, he's a total loon. See for yourself.
Brain Story
Susan Greenfield's eminently watchable introduction to neuroscience. Full of interesting bits and bobs, if a bit slow and BBCish sometimes. Enjoy.
- Episode One - All in the Mind
- Episode Two - In the Heat of the Moment
- Episode Three - The Mind's Eye
- Episode Four - First among Equals
- Episode Five - Growing the Mind
- Episode Six - A Final Mystery
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