Category Archives: TED Lectures

Jonathan Haidt: The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives

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Steven Pinker: The Surprising Decline in Violence

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Hans Rosling: Religions and Babies

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James Randi: Fiery take down of pyschic fraud

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 … Continue reading

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E.O. Wilson: Saving life on earth

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.

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Richard Dawkins: Militant atheism

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

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Richard Dawkins: Why the universe seems so strange

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

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Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe

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

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Robert Wright the evolution of compassion

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.

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Jared Diamond on on why societies collapse

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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