▣ Humanity, Culture, Society
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Robert Sapolsky - The Uniqueness of Humans / Stress Response: Savior to Killer // Avian Einsteins // Imagining The 10th Dimension // Horizon: Psychedelic Science / How Does Your Memory Work? // Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind (+) / Secrets of the Mind // Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds / Musicophilia // Daniel Dennett, Rupert Sheldrake, Oliver Sacks.. // Daniel Dennett: Good Reasons for "Believing" in God // Freedom of information and toxic or non-toxic religions / Cute, sexy, sweet, funny // Andy Thomson - Why We Believe In Gods // Ames' Window // Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see // Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds // Beyond Belief: Tyson, Weinberg, Krauss, Harris, Shermer // Sam Harris - Believing The Unbelievable // The Professor's Brain (Sixty Symbols) // Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out // outside the box // Alan Watts - Music And Life // A.C. Grayling - The Unconsidered Life // Richard Dawkins on our "queer" universe // Face to Face: Bertrand Russell // HardTalk: Noam Chomsky // Hot Type: Noam Chomsky // Pale Blue Dot // QualiaSoup - Open-mindedness // Chesspiece (John Cage) // Carl Sagan - Who Speaks For Earth? // Carl Sagan - On Mars & The Excluded Middle // What It Means To Be Human // Steven Pinker: Chalking it up to the blank slate / The stuff of thought 1, 2 // Mind Control with Derren Brown // + Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
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MY PLAYGROUND // Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, & Steel / How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed // Bruce Lee Interview (+) // Koyaanisqatsi // Why Do We Talk? // John Taylor Gatto Interview / Sir Ken Robinson - Do schools kill creativity? (>) // A Crude Awakening // Flow // Heima // Artificial Paradise, Inc. // The Enemies of Reason (Part 1) // Horizon: Space Tourists // Why We Fight // The Genius Of Charles Darwin // BARAKA // The Corporation // Helen Caldicott on Plutonium // Milton Friedman - Free to Choose // Scenes In Tibet // Howard Bloom - Human Destiny & The Pursuit Of Paradise In Space // Sharkwater // Hans Rosling: No more boring data // Wade Davis: Cultures at the far edge of the world / Why Ancient Wisdom Matters In The Modern World // Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man // Looking Backward, Looking Forward // Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence / Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion // Daniel Everett: Endangered Languages and Lost Knowledge // Edward Burtynsky: The 10,000-Year Gallery // Alex Steffen: Inspired ideas for a sustainable future / Sustainability // Michael Shermer: Why people believe strange things // Robert Sapolsky on Religion // Panel Discussion - Dawkins, Tyson, Druyan, Stenger, Grothe // Christopher Hitchens - Free Speech / Axis of Evil // Breaking The Spell (WTO) // The Mike Wallace Interview: Ayn Rand / Salvador Dali / Frank Lloyd Wright / Aldous Huxley (+) // The Revolution Will Be Animated // The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal // Style Wars // Rhyme & Reason // Situationist International // The Big Brother State // Slow Food Nation // The 11th Hour // Colour On The Thames // Super Size Me // Michael Pollan: Deep Agriculture // Copyright Criminals // Remember The Future // Wade Davis: Cultures at the far edge of the world // Charlie Rose - Salman Rushie & Stephen Jay Gould // JK Rowling: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination // Utopia // + Network
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{ Further viewing: TSN, POV, Independent Lens, RDF TV, Smithsonian }
Robert Sapolsky - The Uniqueness of Humans / Stress Response: Savior to Killer // Avian Einsteins // Imagining The 10th Dimension // Horizon: Psychedelic Science / How Does Your Memory Work? // Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind (+) / Secrets of the Mind // Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds / Musicophilia // Daniel Dennett, Rupert Sheldrake, Oliver Sacks.. // Daniel Dennett: Good Reasons for "Believing" in God // Freedom of information and toxic or non-toxic religions / Cute, sexy, sweet, funny // Andy Thomson - Why We Believe In Gods // Ames' Window // Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see // Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds // Beyond Belief: Tyson, Weinberg, Krauss, Harris, Shermer // Sam Harris - Believing The Unbelievable // The Professor's Brain (Sixty Symbols) // Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out // outside the box // Alan Watts - Music And Life // A.C. Grayling - The Unconsidered Life // Richard Dawkins on our "queer" universe // Face to Face: Bertrand Russell // HardTalk: Noam Chomsky // Hot Type: Noam Chomsky // Pale Blue Dot // QualiaSoup - Open-mindedness // Chesspiece (John Cage) // Carl Sagan - Who Speaks For Earth? // Carl Sagan - On Mars & The Excluded Middle // What It Means To Be Human // Steven Pinker: Chalking it up to the blank slate / The stuff of thought 1, 2 // Mind Control with Derren Brown // + Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
◊● outside in
MY PLAYGROUND // Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, & Steel / How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed // Bruce Lee Interview (+) // Koyaanisqatsi // Why Do We Talk? // John Taylor Gatto Interview / Sir Ken Robinson - Do schools kill creativity? (>) // A Crude Awakening // Flow // Heima // Artificial Paradise, Inc. // The Enemies of Reason (Part 1) // Horizon: Space Tourists // Why We Fight // The Genius Of Charles Darwin // BARAKA // The Corporation // Helen Caldicott on Plutonium // Milton Friedman - Free to Choose // Scenes In Tibet // Howard Bloom - Human Destiny & The Pursuit Of Paradise In Space // Sharkwater // Hans Rosling: No more boring data // Wade Davis: Cultures at the far edge of the world / Why Ancient Wisdom Matters In The Modern World // Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man // Looking Backward, Looking Forward // Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence / Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion // Daniel Everett: Endangered Languages and Lost Knowledge // Edward Burtynsky: The 10,000-Year Gallery // Alex Steffen: Inspired ideas for a sustainable future / Sustainability // Michael Shermer: Why people believe strange things // Robert Sapolsky on Religion // Panel Discussion - Dawkins, Tyson, Druyan, Stenger, Grothe // Christopher Hitchens - Free Speech / Axis of Evil // Breaking The Spell (WTO) // The Mike Wallace Interview: Ayn Rand / Salvador Dali / Frank Lloyd Wright / Aldous Huxley (+) // The Revolution Will Be Animated // The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal // Style Wars // Rhyme & Reason // Situationist International // The Big Brother State // Slow Food Nation // The 11th Hour // Colour On The Thames // Super Size Me // Michael Pollan: Deep Agriculture // Copyright Criminals // Remember The Future // Wade Davis: Cultures at the far edge of the world // Charlie Rose - Salman Rushie & Stephen Jay Gould // JK Rowling: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination // Utopia // + Network
{ Further viewing: TSN, POV, Independent Lens, RDF TV, Smithsonian }


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