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Category: TED Lectures

Jonathan Haidt: The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives

Posted on November 5, 2014September 17, 2018 by gthumanists_admin
TED Lectures

Steven Pinker: The Surprising Decline in Violence

Posted on November 5, 2014September 17, 2018 by gthumanists_admin
TED Lectures

Hans Rosling: Religions and Babies

Posted on November 5, 2014September 17, 2018 by gthumanists_admin
TED Lectures

James Randi: Fiery take down of pyschic fraud

Posted on September 30, 2014September 18, 2018 by gthumanists_admin

Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world’s psychics: Prove what you do is real, and I’ll give you a million dollars. (No takers yet.)

TED Lectures

E.O. Wilson: Saving life on earth

Posted on May 27, 2011September 18, 2018 by gthumanists_admin

As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn more about our biosphere.

TED Lectures

Richard Dawkins: Militant atheism

Posted on May 27, 2011September 18, 2018 by gthumanists_admin

Richard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position — and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science.

TED Lectures

Richard Dawkins: Why the universe seems so strange

Posted on May 27, 2011September 18, 2018 by gthumanists_admin

Richard Dawkins makes a case for “thinking the improbable” by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe.

TED Lectures

Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe

Posted on May 27, 2011September 18, 2018 by gthumanists_admin

Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe — and discusses how we might go about answering them.

TED Lectures

Robert Wright the evolution of compassion

Posted on May 16, 2011September 17, 2018 by gthumanists_admin

Wright explain(s) why we appreciate the Golden Rule, why we… ignore it and why there’s hope that, in the future, we might all have the compassion to follow it.

TED Lectures

Jared Diamond on on why societies collapse

Posted on May 16, 2011September 18, 2018 by gthumanists_admin

Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how — if we see it in time — we can prevent it.

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