Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham lectures on Humans: The Cooking Ape, discussing his contention that the desire to cook is a defining characteristic of humanity. Human beings are…
Talks and Lectures Released In 2007 »
On Sept. 18, 2007, only a month after doctors told him that he had three-to-six months to live following a recurrence of pancreatic cancer, professor and alumnus…
Polls show that between one-third and one-half of Americans still believe that there is “no solid” evidence of global warming, or that if warming is happening it…
James Randi is an internationally known magician (as The Amazing Randi), psychic debunker, and winner of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant.” He was a founding fellow of…
In 2007, Dan Dennett spoke at the AAI conference about the difference of believing in God and declaring the belief. He starts his talk with the following:…
During the filming of Channel 4′s The Genius of Charles Darwin, The Root of All Evil and The Enemies of Reason, Richard Dawkins conducted several extended interviews…
What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language? Why cant we…
The topics (9 lectures) covered in this course focus on classical mechanics. The course is taught by Leonard Susskind, the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford…
Tune in for this unusual presentation on autism by someone with autism. Animal Science professor Temple Grandin, who designs livestock handling facilities, discusses the value of early…
Author Christopher Hitchens discusses his book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything as a part of the Authors@Google series. The author of Why Orwell Matters…
