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    MagicMarker
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    Nice one.. this will relieve the holiday boredom I've been experiencing.


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    Daftendirekt
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    Good find!


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    doctoremma
    Registered Users Posts: 1,870 ✭✭✭doctoremma


    Dave! wrote: »
    Hey folks,

    Just stumbled upon this website last night

    www.bigthink.com

    It's basically just a load of interviews with various people... academics, businesspeople, musicians, politicians...

    It features lots about religion, and the interviews are fairly recent for the most part.

    Unfortunately there's no Shermer or Hitchens yet :(

    But here's some choice ones...

    http://bigthink.com/stevenpinker
    http://bigthink.com/richarddawkins
    http://bigthink.com/danieldennett
    http://bigthink.com/stephenfry
    http://bigthink.com/samharris :)
    http://bigthink.com/maryrobinson
    http://bigthink.com/noamchomsky
    http://bigthink.com/neildegrassetyson

    I'd say most people have seen bits of the Sam Harris interview on YouTube, but the rest don't seem to have bled onto there yet

    Some of them are fairly recent -- Dawkins was only interviewed in October -- and the interviews are quite long and with unusual questions, unlike the silly questions you might expect on a TV show or, well, anything Ryan Tubridy presents. Dawkins is asked a good bit about his doctoral thesis and he goes into detail on it. Also asked if there's any projects he started but didn't finish, which prompts him to whistle like a cricket (give it a watch :p).

    Definitely worth a look :)

    Just to add to that and I'm sure it's unecessary but you guys have publicised TED before?

    http://www.ted.com/

    I have lost days.....In this final run up to holidays, it's taking the edge of my boredom...


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    Dave!
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    Yeah emma, TED is great

    Not as good, but www.edge.org is worth a look also


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    MagicMarker
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    www.fora.tv is also a good one.


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    Dave!
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    New interview with Sam Harris

    http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2010/02/12/sam-harris-picks-a-fight-with-god/

    Also he was speaking at the most recent TED conference, so I'm sure that'll be online at some point :)


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    Zillah
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    I like that Sam Harris gets a smiley face :)


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    Dave!
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    Sam Harris always gets a smiley face


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    bnt
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    I just read and enjoyed an article about a famous person who is an atheist, though he's not really a "famous atheist": film critic Roger Ebert. After major cancer scares and many operations, he's frail and can no longer speak or eat. He's still incredibly upbeat and writing more than ever (not just about movies), but he's under no illusions that he has much time left.
    There has been no death-row conversion. He has not found God. He has been beaten in some ways. But his other senses have picked up since he lost his sense of taste. He has tuned better into life. Some things aren't as important as they once were; some things are more important than ever. He has built for himself a new kind of universe. Roger Ebert is no mystic, but he knows things we don't know.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    Dave!
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    Didn't really think this warranted a new thread, but Dawkins on Q&A in Australia recently

    http://www.abc.net.au/iview/?WT.mc_id=CORP_srch_iview&gclid=CIXd1Neyr6ACFYMvpAodLlkutA#/view/526169

    Just started watching it, very good so far :)


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    ColmDawson
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    It's only available to people in Australia.:(


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    smithy1981
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    ColmDawson wrote: »
    It's only available to people in Australia.:(

    I think this is it:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDn6mYjj880


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    Dades
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    Dave! wrote: »
    Didn't really think this warranted a new thread, but Dawkins on Q&A in Australia recently...
    Nice one Dave!

    Funny watching Dawkins squirming in his seat every time someone says something daft. Which was a lot.

    Did I hear right - the Aussie PM is a creationist? Give me strength.


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