Very interesting article by Richard Branson on Portugal as an experiment on the decriminalisation of drug possession, and switch from treating drug addicts as criminals to patients.
Richard Branson: Time to end the war on drugs
Very interesting article by Richard Branson on Portugal as an experiment on the decriminalisation of drug possession, and switch from treating drug addicts as criminals to patients.
Russell Brand interview
Fascinating 10-minute interview with Russell Brand. It's incredible how much depth he can (not help himself) express without a second's thought. It reminds me of Christopher Hitchens, in some ways. I really enjoyed watching it, anyway, if nothing else from a psychological perspective.
The Greatest Speech Ever Made
Came across this YouTube video today.
Description
One of the most important speeches in recorded history was given by a comedian by the name of Charlie Chaplin. If you like what you see please share the video any way you can and pass the message on.
UPDATED: Jonathan Miller's "The Atheism Tapes"
I came across these videos on YouTube and thought they were really worth watching, so I compiled them into a playlist which I present here.
Jonathan Miller interviews six people for a documentary about atheism: philosopher Colin McGinn, physicist Steven Weinberg, playwright Arthur Miller, biologist Richard Dawkins, theologian Denys Turner, and philosopher Daniel Dennett. Each interview is three 10-minute videos long.
EDIT (05/02/12): Unfortunately, all of the videos have been taken down! Searching YouTube for "the atheism tapes" seems to indicate there are still copies around, however...
Jonathan Miller interviews six people for a documentary about atheism: philosopher Colin McGinn, physicist Steven Weinberg, playwright Arthur Miller, biologist Richard Dawkins, theologian Denys Turner, and philosopher Daniel Dennett. Each interview is three 10-minute videos long.
EDIT (05/02/12): Unfortunately, all of the videos have been taken down! Searching YouTube for "the atheism tapes" seems to indicate there are still copies around, however...
Animation: The Central Dogma
Really cool visualisation of how DNA leads to protein formation! It's like something out of the Power Rangers, but cooler, and actually happens!
Words - Radiolab
We've been talking about language development at university (I'm training to be a primary school teacher) and I thought of this podcast I'd listened to a while ago and found really interesting.
There are a whole bunch of interesting things they discuss to do with the relationship between language and thinking. A woman recounts meeting a deaf man with no language, some experiments that show that perhaps without language you simply can't imagine some concepts, there's some brief word chemistry by Shakespeare, a neuroanatomist describes her own stroke, and a really fascinating story of some deaf children with no language inventing their own sign language whilst at school, and some implications that followed.
Anyway, simply fascinating, well worth listening to. 1 hour long.
Words
There are a whole bunch of interesting things they discuss to do with the relationship between language and thinking. A woman recounts meeting a deaf man with no language, some experiments that show that perhaps without language you simply can't imagine some concepts, there's some brief word chemistry by Shakespeare, a neuroanatomist describes her own stroke, and a really fascinating story of some deaf children with no language inventing their own sign language whilst at school, and some implications that followed.
Anyway, simply fascinating, well worth listening to. 1 hour long.
Words
It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But in this hour of Radiolab, we try to do just that.
We meet a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke, and retrace the birth of a brand new language 30 years ago.
"The limits of my language are the limits of my life."Ludwig Wittgenstein
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