Início › Feed aggregator › Categories

Canal Humanista

Facts Of Evolution

Science & Reason - Sun, 03/14/2010 - 07:25
Facts of Evolution (Part 1): Introduction. --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker --- EVOLUTION IS REAL SCIENCE: 1. Does The Evidence Support Evolution? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1R8w_QEvEU 2. Vitamin C And Common Ancestry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF2N2lbb3dk 3. Are We Descended From Viruses? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIsWZCSMSSs 4. Does The Fossil Record Support Evolution? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWVoXZPOCGk 5. Where Are The Transitional Forms? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfTbrHg8KGQ FACTS OF EVOLUTION: 1. Introduction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43SskX-pEqA 2. Universal Common Descent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0UGpcea8Zg 3. Good Design, Bad Design http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mtr3Cum74A 4. Speciation And Extinction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5kumHLiK4A 5. How Fast Is Evolution? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XgeSi1EGkU --- In biology, evolution is the change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms through successive generations. When a population splits into smaller groups, these groups evolve independently and develop into new species. Anatomical similarities, geographical distribution of similar species and the fossil record indicate that all organisms are descended from a common ancestor through a long series of these divergence events, stretching back in a tree of life that has grown over the 3,500 million years of life on Earth. Evolution is the product of two opposing forces: processes that constantly introduce variation in traits, and processes that make particular variants become more common or rare. A trait is a particular characteristic such as eye color, height, or a behavior that is expressed when an organism's genes interact with its environment. Genes vary within populations, so organisms show heritable differences (variation) in their traits. The main cause of variation is mutation, which changes the sequence of a gene. Altered genes are then inherited by offspring. There can sometimes also be transfer of genes between species. Two main processes cause variants to become more common or rare in a population. One is natural selection, which causes traits that aid survival and reproduction to become more common, and traits that hinder survival and reproduction to become more rare. Natural selection occurs because only a few individuals in each generation will survive, since resources are limited and organisms produce many more offspring than their environment can support. Over many generations mutations produce successive, small, random changes in traits, which are then filtered by natural selection and the beneficial changes retained. This adjusts traits so they become suited to an organism's environment: these adjustments are called adaptations. Not every trait, however, is an adaptation. Another cause of evolution is genetic drift, an independent process that produces entirely random changes in how common traits are in a population. Genetic drift comes from the role that chance plays in whether a trait will be passed on to the next generation. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution .
Views: 1596
440 ratings
Time: 01:55 More in Science & Technology
Categories: Canal Humanista

"Perils and promises of egg markets" at the UNIS-UN Conference "Bioethics: Striking a balance."

American Humanist Association - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 13:08
Categories: Canal Humanista

Great Minds: Richard Feynman - The Uncertainty Of Knowledge

Science & Reason - Thu, 03/04/2010 - 08:12
Great Minds, Great Words: Richard Feynman - The Uncertainty of Knowledge ... The Nature and Purpose of the Universe. Playlist "Great Minds, Great Words": • http://www.youtube.com/user/FFreeThinker#grid/user/CC4F721030F8D4D1 --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker --- Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in the world. He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In addition to his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing, and introducing the concept of nanotechnology (creation of devices at the molecular scale). He held the Richard Chace Tolman professorship in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology. Feynman was a keen popularizer of physics through both books and lectures, notably a 1959 talk on top-down nanotechnology called "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" and "The Feynman Lectures on Physics". Feynman also became known through his semi-autobiographical books ("Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?") and books written about him, such as "Tuva or Bust!" He was regarded as an eccentric and free spirit. He was a prankster, juggler, safecracker, proud amateur painter, and bongo player. He liked to pursue a variety of seemingly unrelated interests, such as art, percussion, Maya hieroglyphs, and lock picking. Feynman also had a deep interest in biology, and was a friend of the geneticist and microbiologist Esther Lederberg, who developed replica plating and discovered bacteriophage lambda. They had several mutual physicist friends who, after beginning their careers in nuclear research, moved for moral reasons into genetics, among them Leó Szilárd, Guido Pontecorvo, and Aaron Novick. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman .
Views: 16755
1689 ratings
Time: 02:51 More in Education
Categories: Canal Humanista

Sufficient Evidence To Believe In God?

Science & Reason - Mon, 03/01/2010 - 08:13
"The God Virus (Part 8): Sufficient Evidence To Believe In God?" This is a clip from The Atheist Experience #645 ("Dr. Darrel Ray talks about his new book, 'The God Virus'") with Matt Dillahunty, Martin Wagner, and guest Dr. Darrel Ray: http://blip.tv/file/3254265 --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker • http://www.youtube.com/BestOfAtheism • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine --- Dr. Darrel W. Ray is a writer, psychologist and business owner. He enjoys challenging people to think in different ways about their world. At the same time, he does not delight in others' discomfort when challenged. He thinks that many major life changes can be achieved with minimal harm if people have the right cognitive and perceptual skills. • http://www.youtube.com/damon132 • http://recoveringreligionists.com --- What is The Atheist Experience? The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at an atheist and non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA), a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals. • http://www.Atheist-Experience.com • http://www.Atheist-Community.org • http://www.NonProphetsRadio.com Watch The Atheist Experience live: • Ustream: http://tinyurl.com/TAEshow • Channel Austin: http://tinyurl.com/TAEstudio (Sundays 4:30 to 6:00 pm CST / 22:30-24:00 UTC) Support the ACA (donations/membership): • http://www.Atheist-Community.org/join/ • http://www.Atheist-Community.org/donate/ • Blog: http://AtheistExperience.blogspot.com • Wiki: http://www.IronChariots.org • DVDs: http://atheist-community.org/products • Blip.tv: http://atheistexperience.blip.tv • Cartoons: http://Atheist-Community.org/atheisteve/ • E-mail: tv@atheist-community.org .
Views: 10245
884 ratings
Time: 07:56 More in Education
Categories: Canal Humanista

Great Minds: Richard Dawkins - 'We Are Going To Die!'

Science & Reason - Sat, 02/27/2010 - 07:50
Great Minds, Great Words: Richard Dawkins - 'We Are Going To Die'. In March 2008, Richard Dawkins gave this lecture on "The God Delusion" during his US Tour. The event took place on the UC Berkeley campus in Wheeler Auditorium. Playlist "Great Minds, Great Words": • http://www.youtube.com/user/FFreeThinker#grid/user/CC4F721030F8D4D1 --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker --- Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He was voted Britain's leading public intellectual by readers of Prospect magazine and was named one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" for 2007. Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term "meme". He is a prominent critic of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book "The Blind Watchmaker", he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. Richard Dawkins is an atheist, secular humanist, sceptic, scientific rationalist, and supporter of the Brights movement. In his 2006 book "The God Delusion", he contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that faith qualifies as a delusion − as a fixed false belief. • http://www.richarddawkins.net • http://www.youtube.com/richarddawkinsdotnet If you enjoy the video and would like to support the work of The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, please purchase the program on DVD at http://richarddawkins.net/store/ .
Views: 21364
1766 ratings
Time: 02:02 More in Education
Categories: Canal Humanista

The God Virus: How To Treat Infected People

Science & Reason - Wed, 02/24/2010 - 08:02
The God Virus (Part 4): How To Treat Infected People. This is a clip from The Atheist Experience #645 ("Dr. Darrel Ray talks about his new book, 'The God Virus'") with Matt Dillahunty, Martin Wagner, and guest Dr. Darrel Ray: http://blip.tv/file/3254265 --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker • http://www.youtube.com/BestOfAtheism • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine --- Dr. Darrel W. Ray is a writer, psychologist and business owner. He enjoys challenging people to think in different ways about their world. At the same time, he does not delight in others' discomfort when challenged. He thinks that many major life changes can be achieved with minimal harm if people have the right cognitive and perceptual skills. • http://www.youtube.com/damon132 • http://recoveringreligionists.com --- What is The Atheist Experience? The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at an atheist and non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA), a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals. • http://www.Atheist-Experience.com • http://www.Atheist-Community.org • http://www.NonProphetsRadio.com Watch The Atheist Experience live: • Ustream: http://tinyurl.com/TAEshow • Channel Austin: http://tinyurl.com/TAEstudio (Sundays 4:30 to 6:00 pm CST / 22:30-24:00 UTC) Support the ACA (donations/membership): • http://www.Atheist-Community.org/join/ • http://www.Atheist-Community.org/donate/ • Blog: http://AtheistExperience.blogspot.com • Wiki: http://www.IronChariots.org • DVDs: http://atheist-community.org/products • Blip.tv: http://atheistexperience.blip.tv • Cartoons: http://Atheist-Community.org/atheisteve/ • E-mail: tv@atheist-community.org .
Views: 9128
682 ratings
Time: 09:59 More in Howto & Style
Categories: Canal Humanista

The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives And Culture

Science & Reason - Tue, 02/23/2010 - 09:07
The God Virus (Part 1): How Religion Infects Our Lives And Culture. This is a clip from The Atheist Experience #645 ("Dr. Darrel Ray talks about his new book, 'The God Virus'") with Matt Dillahunty, Martin Wagner, and guest Dr. Darrel Ray: http://blip.tv/file/3254265 --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker • http://www.youtube.com/BestOfAtheism • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine --- Dr. Darrel W. Ray is a writer, psychologist and business owner. He enjoys challenging people to think in different ways about their world. At the same time, he does not delight in others' discomfort when challenged. He thinks that many major life changes can be achieved with minimal harm if people have the right cognitive and perceptual skills. • http://www.youtube.com/damon132 • http://recoveringreligionists.com --- What is The Atheist Experience? The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at an atheist and non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA), a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals. • http://www.Atheist-Experience.com • http://www.Atheist-Community.org • http://www.NonProphetsRadio.com Watch The Atheist Experience live: • Ustream: http://tinyurl.com/TAEshow • Channel Austin: http://tinyurl.com/TAEstudio (Sundays 4:30 to 6:00 pm CST / 22:30-24:00 UTC) Support the ACA (donations/membership): • http://www.Atheist-Community.org/join/ • http://www.Atheist-Community.org/donate/ • Blog: http://AtheistExperience.blogspot.com • Wiki: http://www.IronChariots.org • DVDs: http://atheist-community.org/products • Blip.tv: http://atheistexperience.blip.tv • Cartoons: http://Atheist-Community.org/atheisteve/ • E-mail: tv@atheist-community.org .
Views: 14305
953 ratings
Time: 09:47 More in News & Politics
Categories: Canal Humanista

Andrew Copson, BBC News, 23/02/10

British Humanist Association - Tue, 02/23/2010 - 04:39
Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association, Andrew Copson talks about Ed Balls amendment being voted on today in Parliament, which would grant religious exemptions on otherwise compulsory Sex and Relationships Education.
Views: 609
35 ratings
Time: 03:08 More in Education
Categories: Canal Humanista

Andrew Copson discusses Sex Education in Faith Schools

British Humanist Association - Tue, 02/23/2010 - 04:39
Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association, Andrew Copson, discusses Sex Education in Faith Schools on the BBC news.
Views: 30
6 ratings
Time: 03:08 More in Education
Categories: Canal Humanista

Great Minds: Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot [new HD version]

Science & Reason - Sun, 02/21/2010 - 07:54
Great Minds, Great Words: Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot. A Vision of Human Future in Space. The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 from a record distance, showing it against the vastness of space. By request of Carl Sagan, NASA commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission and now leaving the solar system, to turn its camera around and to take a photograph of Earth. It was subsequently used by Sagan as the title of his 1994 book of the same name. Playlist "Great Minds, Great Words": • http://www.youtube.com/user/FFreeThinker#grid/user/CC4F721030F8D4D1 --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine • http://www.youtube.com/SagansCosmos • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker --- BEST OF CARL SAGAN'S "COSMOS": 1) 10 Years After: Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan Reflect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leTNfwfH0Jc 2) Lost Between Immensity And Eternity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIVsDg6U0LU 3) The Realm Of The Galaxies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axoV6HhWfI 4) Our Galaxy, The Milky Way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOazBTHzRYA 5) Our Solar System: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBqjob-UVeo 6) Eratosthenes And The Round Earth Model: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en5UKtcNujI 7) The Library Of Alexandria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVQs4B2jAW0 8) A Short History Of The Universe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n2r0qOxJ6k 9) Artificial And Natural Selection: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3uToVWZkWM 10) The Cosmic Year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFqbm_94nTM 11) Tree Of Life - 4 Billion Years Of Evolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF0UECN4ndA 12) The Miracle Of Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOyojWeOYNA 13) DNA - The Common Basis Of Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecmuvjSykf8 14) Abiogenesis - The Origin Of Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yet1xkAv_HY 15) Astronomy vs Astrology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaQS9NJ0nI 16) Pictures In The Sky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwCAwc4bge4 17) Ancient Astronomy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-5dwJwau1Y 18) Triumph Of Modern Science Over Medieval Superstition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lfmRqT-B_c 19) The Mysterious Tunguska Event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irVof7adq4s 20) Life Beyond Earth - Origin Of Life In The Universe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ivTdcHYvI --- Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977. Sagan had pushed for Voyager to take a photo of the Earth when its vantage point reached the edge of the solar system. On February 14, 1990, having completed its primary mission, NASA commanded the spacecraft to turn around to photograph the planets of the Solar System. Between February 14, 1990 and June 6, 1990, one image Voyager returned was of Earth, showing up as a "pale blue dot" in the grainy photo. Carl Sagan gives the distance as 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometres) in his book. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot --- Carl Edward Sagan, Ph.D. (1934-1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage", which has been seen by more than 600 million people in over 60 countries, making it the most widely watched PBS program in history. A book to accompany the program was also published. He also wrote the novel "Contact", the basis for the 1997 Robert Zemecki's film of the same name starring Jodie Foster. During his lifetime, Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles and was author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books. In his works, he frequently advocated skeptical inquiry, secular humanism, and the scientific method. • http://www.carlsagan.com .
Views: 46584
1931 ratings
Time: 04:00 More in Science & Technology
Categories: Canal Humanista

Richard Dawkins: Evolution And 'Digital Darwinism'

Science & Reason - Sat, 02/20/2010 - 09:27
Darwin's Universal Impact: Evolution And 'Digital Darwinism'. Professor Richard Dawkins (University of Oxford) @ University of Cambridge: Darwin's universal impact. --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine --- Was Darwin the most revolutionary scientist ever? If, by revolutionary, we mean the scientist whose discovery initiated the most seismic overturning of pre-existing science, the honour would at least be contested by Newton, Einstein and the architects of quantum theory. Those same physicists might have outclassed Darwin in sheer intellectual fire power. But Darwin probably did revolutionize the world view of people outside science more comprehensively than any other scientist. I want to recognize four bridges to evolutionary understanding. The first bridge is to natural selection as a force for weeding out the unfit. The second bridge is the recognition that natural selection can drive evolutionary change. Bridge number three leads to the imaginative grasp of the importance of natural selection in explaining all of life, in all its speciose richness. Bridge number four is the bridge to public understanding and appreciation. Darwin crossed it alone, in 1859, by writing "On the Origin of Species". The fifth bridge, which Darwin himself never crossed was neo-Darwinism or what I shall rename digital Darwinism because the essence of Mendelian genetics is that it is digital. As crests get longer, or eyes rounder, or tails gaudier, what is really being carved by natural selection is the gene pool. As mutation and sexual recombination enrich the gene pool, the chisels of natural selection carve it into shape, working away through geological time. It is an image that might have seemed strange to Darwin. But I think he would have come to love it. -- Richard Dawkins --- Richard Dawkins is an ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer. He was born in Nairobi in 1941, graduated from the University of Oxford in 1962, where he also studied for his doctorate. He spent two years at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, before returning to Oxford in 1970 to take up a lectureship in the Zoology Department. Between 1995 and 2008, Dawkins held the Charles Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford. He published his first book, "The Selfish Gene", in 1976. It became an instant bestseller, as were subsequent books, amongst them, "The Blind Watch Maker" (1986) and, more recently, "The God Dellusion" (2006). He makes regular TV and radio appearances. He has won prizes for science, science communication, literature and TV productions. http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/684763 .
Views: 11695
1004 ratings
Time: 08:42 More in Education
Categories: Canal Humanista

Love Letters From God

Science & Reason - Tue, 02/16/2010 - 07:33
"Love Letters From God" is a clip from The Atheist Experience #644 ("The Naturalistic Fallacy. Jen and Tracie explore whether 'natural' equates with 'good'") with Tracie Harris and Jen Peeples: http://blip.tv/file/3221689 --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker • http://www.youtube.com/BestOfAtheism • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine --- What is The Atheist Experience? The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at an atheist and non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA), a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals. • http://www.Atheist-Experience.com • http://www.Atheist-Community.org • http://www.NonProphetsRadio.com Watch The Atheist Experience live: • Ustream: http://tinyurl.com/TAEshow • Channel Austin: http://tinyurl.com/TAEstudio (Sundays 4:30 to 6:00 pm CST / 22:30-24:00 UTC) Support the ACA (donations/membership): • http://www.Atheist-Community.org/join/ • http://www.Atheist-Community.org/donate/ • Blog: http://AtheistExperience.blogspot.com • Wiki: http://www.IronChariots.org • DVDs: http://atheist-community.org/products • Blip.tv: http://atheistexperience.blip.tv • Cartoons: http://Atheist-Community.org/atheisteve/ • E-mail: tv@atheist-community.org .
Views: 13862
974 ratings
Time: 06:20 More in Education
Categories: Canal Humanista

jezuzfreek777 In Support Of TOMMYfromtheBRONX

Science & Reason - Tue, 02/16/2010 - 03:12
TOMMYfromtheBRONX about the donations: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0V_h96RlPI Original video by: • http://www.youtube.com/jezuzfreek777 .
Views: 5731
468 ratings
Time: 04:10 More in Nonprofits & Activism
Categories: Canal Humanista

An Atheist In Space

Science & Reason - Sat, 02/13/2010 - 08:18
Question: How would you describe your own life stance today? How do you relate to God and religion? Swedish Astronaut Christer Fuglesang: "Well, from about the age of ten I've been convinced that there is no God, there is nothing we can't explain with the physical laws." --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker • http://www.youtube.com/BestOfAtheism • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine --- Arne Christer Fuglesang (born March 18, 1957 in Stockholm) is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Shuttle mission on December 10, 2006, at 01:47 GMT, making him the first Swedish citizen in space. Married with three children, he is a Fellow at CERN and taught mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology before being selected to join the Astronaut Corps of the European Space Agency in 1992. As of 29 August, 2009, he has participated on two Space Shuttle missions and five spacewalks, and is the first astronaut outside of the United States or Russian space programs to participate in more than three spacewalks. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christer_Fuglesang --- Christer Fuglesang, ESA Astronaut PERSONAL DATA: Born 18 March 1957 in Stockholm, Sweden. Married to the former Elisabeth Walldie. They have three children. Christer enjoys sports, sailing, skiing, frisbee, games and reading. EDUCATION: Graduated from Bromma Gymnasium, Stockholm in 1975 and received a Master of Science in engineering physics from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, in 1981. He received a Doctorate in experimental particle physics in 1987 and became a Docent in particle physics in 1991 at the University of Stockholm. He was appointed Affiliated Professor at KTH in 2006. SPECIAL HONORS: Honorary Doctorate from Umeå University, Sweden (1999). Honorary Doctorate from the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia (2007). NASA Space Flight Medal (2007). H.M. The Kings Medal (Stockholm, 2007). • http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/fuglesan.html • http://www.christerfuglesang.com/ .
Views: 9632
827 ratings
Time: 07:07 More in Science & Technology
Categories: Canal Humanista

Psychology Of Religion

Science & Reason - Thu, 02/11/2010 - 07:54
"Psychology Of Religion" is a clip from The Atheist Experience #643 ("Hymns. Tracie and Russell look at the twisted lyrics of common hymns") with Russell Glasser and Tracie Harris: http://blip.tv/file/3200785 --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker • http://www.youtube.com/BestOfAtheism • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine --- What is The Atheist Experience? The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at an atheist and non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA), a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals. • http://www.Atheist-Experience.com • http://www.Atheist-Community.org • http://www.NonProphetsRadio.com Watch The Atheist Experience live: • Ustream: http://tinyurl.com/TAEshow • Channel Austin: http://tinyurl.com/TAEstudio (Sundays 4:30 to 6:00 pm CST / 22:30-24:00 UTC) Support the ACA (donations/membership): • http://www.Atheist-Community.org/join/ • http://www.Atheist-Community.org/donate/ • Blog: http://AtheistExperience.blogspot.com • Wiki: http://www.IronChariots.org • DVDs: http://atheist-community.org/products • Blip.tv: http://atheistexperience.blip.tv • Cartoons: http://Atheist-Community.org/atheisteve/ • E-mail: tv@atheist-community.org .
Views: 12940
942 ratings
Time: 08:00 More in Education
Categories: Canal Humanista

The Center Of The Universe

Science & Reason - Sun, 02/07/2010 - 07:47
NASA's Spitzer Science Center: "Ask An Astronomer (Part 1) The Center Of The Universe". In this popular video series, real astronomers answer common questions about astronomy. Part 1: "Where Is the Center of the Universe?" Dr. Varoujan Gorjian explains the mind-boggling expansion of the Universe. --- Subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker --- Where is the center of the Universe? This may seem like a simple question. Since the Universe is expanding, it would seem logical that it was expanding away from a particular point. But, the Universe doesn't actually work like that. The Big Bang, which started the expansion of the Universe, isn't like a firecracker explosion where there is a boom and all the pieces go flying apart from a single point. The Big Bang was in fact the creation of matter and space. And it is this space that's expanding. Think of space as if it's a sidewalk with people standing on it. The expansion of the Universe isn't the people walking away from each other, but it's more like the sidewalk is spreading and moving the people apart. As a simpler example, let's take the surface of a balloon. We can draw galaxies on it, but notice that no galaxy is at the center of the surface. When we blow up the balloon, all the galaxies spread apart from each other. If you look at any single galaxy, all the other galaxies seem to be spreading away from it. Every galaxy sees itself as the center of the expansion. But since not every point can be the center, that really means there is no center. The more space there is between any two galaxies, the more the expansion will be pushing those galaxies apart. So the further away one galaxy is from another, the faster it will be expanding away from it. This discovery was made in 1929 by Edwin Hubble, who discovered that further away a galaxy is, the faster it was receding from us. And that's now known as The Hubble Law. The rate of expansion of the Universe is now known as The Hubble Constant. So, even though it looks like we're at the center of the Universe, the Universe doesn't actually have a center. • http://spitzer.caltech.edu/video-audio --- The Spitzer Space Telescope is a NASA mission managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) • http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ .
Views: 17034
1343 ratings
Time: 02:29 More in Science & Technology
Categories: Canal Humanista

Where Are The Good Christians?

Science & Reason - Thu, 02/04/2010 - 14:50
Where Are The Good Christians? The Atheist Experience #642 with Matt Dillahunty and Don Baker. --- • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker • http://www.youtube.com/BestOfAtheism • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine --- What is The Atheist Experience? The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at an atheist and non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA), a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals. • http://www.Atheist-Experience.com • http://www.Atheist-Community.org • http://www.NonProphetsRadio.com Watch The Atheist Experience live: • Ustream: http://tinyurl.com/TAEshow • Channel Austin: http://tinyurl.com/TAEstudio (Sundays 4:30 to 6:00 pm CST / 22:30-24:00 UTC) Support the ACA (donations/membership): • http://www.Atheist-Community.org/join/ • http://www.Atheist-Community.org/donate/ • Blog: http://AtheistExperience.blogspot.com • Wiki: http://www.IronChariots.org • DVDs: http://atheist-community.org/products • Blip.tv: http://atheistexperience.blip.tv • Cartoons: http://Atheist-Community.org/atheisteve/ • E-mail: tv@atheist-community.org .
Views: 13571
1340 ratings
Time: 10:37 More in Education
Categories: Canal Humanista

The Human Brain: How We Decide

Science & Reason - Sat, 01/30/2010 - 11:09
The Human Brain: How We Decide. --- Subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker --- When Jonah Lehrer was in town to talk about his latest book, "How We Decide", Calacademy snagged the opportunity to interview him for "Science in Action". He took the Visualization Studio through a tour of the brain as we make decisions whether in the cereal aisle or piloting a plane. Then the artists went to work, creating the brain visuals. • http://www.calacademy.org/ --- Jonah Lehrer is a Contributing Editor at Wired and the author of "How We Decide" and "Proust Was a Neuroscientist". Lehrer graduated from Columbia University and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He has written for The New Yorker, Nature, Seed, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. Lehrer is also a Contributing Editor at Scientific American Mind and National Public Radio's Radio Lab. • http://www.jonahlehrer.com/ • http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/ --- Since 1853, the California Academy of Sciences has been dedicated to exploring, explaining, and protecting the natural world. It is the only place in the world to combine an aquarium, natural history museum, and planetarium all under one living roof. • http://www.calacademy.org/ .
Views: 20155
1119 ratings
Time: 02:34 More in Education
Categories: Canal Humanista

David on the Jeff Farias Show.wmv

American Humanist Association - Fri, 01/29/2010 - 08:38
Views: 131
8 ratings
Time: 27:54 More in Nonprofits & Activism
Categories: Canal Humanista

Scientific Thinking And Moral Philosophy

Science & Reason - Tue, 01/26/2010 - 10:23
Richard Dawkins @ Big Think: While science is indelibly distinct from the field of ethics, Richard Dawkins believes that there are a number of ways in which its facts and reasoning could greatly benefit our ability to understand and repair the worlds suffering. --- Subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker • http://www.youtube.com/BestOfAtheism • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine --- Question: Can science shed light on any moral issues? Richard Dawkins: Science is not in the business of shedding light on moral debates, but I think it can do sometimes -- the whole subject of moral philosophy, of examining moral questions in a logical way to expose inconsistencies, for example. When you're looking at moral questions, so-called moral questions, like abortion or euthanasia, you can show that people who take a very strong absolutist line may be being inconsistent with themselves because they are taking a strong line on one thing while at the same time inconsistently not taking a similarly strong line on another. So that would be a scientific way of thinking; it's not science per se. It's moral philosophy, but it's a kind of scientific way of thinking. But also I think scientific facts can illuminate moral debate. In the case of abortion again, for example, a scientist might contribute to the debate information about at what point during the development of an embryo the nervous system comes into being. And presumably, before the nervous system comes into existence there is no ability to feel pain or to suffer. And so maybe something important happens at the moment when the nervous system comes into being. On the other hand, you might say, well, even when a human embryo develops a nervous system and develops the capacity to perhaps suffer, it's still a much smaller nervous system than the nervous system of an adult cow. And so what about balancing the suffering of a human embryo against the suffering of an adult cow when it's being slaughtered for meat. An absolutist moralist would say, well, humans are just plain special, and cows are not humans, so they don't deserve the same moral consideration. But a scientist might come along and say, well, what do you mean by that? I mean we are, after all, all evolved; we're all cousins. At what point in the evolution -- since we know evolution is a fact -- at what point in the evolution of humans would you suddenly draw the line and say, all right, from now on they're all human and before that they're not? In the evolutionary progression from the common ancestors with chimpanzees, who lived about six or seven million years ago, to modern humans, going through creatures which might have looked a bit like Lucy, might have looked a bit like the newly discovered fossil Ardi, would you have given special human moral ethical consideration to Lucy? Or would you count Lucy as though she was a chimpanzee? Does this perhaps suggest to you that we shouldn't be in the business of drawing lines between species in this kind of way, and maybe these lines should be regarded as more fuzzy and less clear cut. Our absolutist moralities that do draw hard and fast lines between humans and all other species -- even taking a human fetus and calling that human, whereas an adult chimpanzee is not and doesn't deserve the same moral consideration -- is that consistent with science? These are ways that science can at least inform moral discussions. Question: Is there ever a point where scientific reasoning can harm society? Richard Dawkins: You can, I suppose, make a utilitarian justification for obnoxious practices. You could make a utilitarian justification for torture. Moral philosophers sometimes pose the hypothetical case where the world is about to be blown up. Only one person knows the secret password to stop the doomsday bomb going off. This one person is a suicide bomber who refuses to give up the password. Are you right to torture him? And most people, I think, say you are. I mean, it's a horrible thing to torture somebody, but under those extreme conditions, to save the world you would torture somebody. And that would be a utilitarian justification for an otherwise obnoxious practice such as torture. http://bigthink.com/ --- Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and the former Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the author of several of modern science's essential texts, including The Selfish Gene (1976) and The God Delusion (2006). Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Dawkins eventually graduated with a degree in zoology from Balliol College, Oxford, and then earned a masters degree and the doctorate from Oxford University. He has recently left his teaching duties to write and manage his foundation, The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, full-time. http://bigthink.com/richarddawkins .
Views: 24934
1930 ratings
Time: 04:43 More in Education
Categories: Canal Humanista
Syndicate content