While US congressmen are discussing measures to protect Internet freedom worldwide, most American don't know that the US itself has a global spying system called "the Echelon" that monitors all telephone conversations, e-mails and others communication methods of users worldwide.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Mike Aus and Gary Williams Speak About Houston Oasis
Houston Oasis President Gary Williams shares the story of his journey to freethought, and some background on the founding of Houston Oasis. Houston Oasis is a community grounded in reason, celebrating the human experience.
Mike Aus is a graduate of The Clergy Project and is the Executive Director of the Houston Oasis.
Mike Aus is a graduate of The Clergy Project and is the Executive Director of the Houston Oasis.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
String Theory - Lawrence Krauss and Brian Greene
Professors Lawrence Krauss and Brian Greene discuss Brian Greene's introduction into the field of String Theory and the educational reasons to how he came to study and popularise the subject with physics in general.
Theoretical Physics requires tailor made mathematics to describe the mechanism of reality as probed and observed by Experimental and Observational Physicists.
Theoretical Physics requires tailor made mathematics to describe the mechanism of reality as probed and observed by Experimental and Observational Physicists.
Kenneth Miller - Evolution vs Intelligent Design FULL
Cell biologist and author Kenneth Miller discusses the scientific theory of evolution and the recent legal battles to teach intelligent design in schools. Kenneth R. Miller is a biology professor at Brown University. Miller is particularly known for his opposition to creationism, including the intelligent design movement. He has written two books on the subject. The first, Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution, argues that a belief in evolution is compatible with a belief in God. In Only a Theory, his second on the subject, explores ID and the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District as well as its implications in science across America.
01. Introduction
02. Books on Biology and Evolution
03. Miller
04. Mike Huckabee
05. The Evolution Debate in U.S.
06. Intelligent Design Drama in Dover
07. Fish to Tetrapod Transition
08. Dover Trial Verdict
09. Religion Masquerading as Science
10. The Scientific Soul of the U.S.
11. Intelligent Design a Scientific Failure
12. Evolution Is Not Random and Accidental
13. Design of the Human Genome
14. Q1: Rejection of Science in America
15. Q2: Danger of Brain Drain
16. Q3: Carbon Dating and Creationism
17. Q4: Transitional Species
18. Q5: Continuing Process of Evolution
Location:
Chautauqua Institution
Chautauqua, NY
Event Date:
08.18.08
Speakers:
Kenneth Miller
01. Introduction
02. Books on Biology and Evolution
03. Miller
04. Mike Huckabee
05. The Evolution Debate in U.S.
06. Intelligent Design Drama in Dover
07. Fish to Tetrapod Transition
08. Dover Trial Verdict
09. Religion Masquerading as Science
10. The Scientific Soul of the U.S.
11. Intelligent Design a Scientific Failure
12. Evolution Is Not Random and Accidental
13. Design of the Human Genome
14. Q1: Rejection of Science in America
15. Q2: Danger of Brain Drain
16. Q3: Carbon Dating and Creationism
17. Q4: Transitional Species
18. Q5: Continuing Process of Evolution
Location:
Chautauqua Institution
Chautauqua, NY
Event Date:
08.18.08
Speakers:
Kenneth Miller
Monday, February 25, 2013
The Collapse of Intelligent Design
The Collapse of Intelligent Design: Will the Next Monkey Trial be in Ohio?
Kenneth R. Miller's presentation on Intelligent Design.
Recorded January 3, 2006 in Strosacker auditorium.
Kenneth R. Miller is the Professor of Biology Royce Family Professor for Teaching Excellence at Brown University.
Kenneth R. Miller's presentation on Intelligent Design.
Recorded January 3, 2006 in Strosacker auditorium.
Kenneth R. Miller is the Professor of Biology Royce Family Professor for Teaching Excellence at Brown University.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Michael Shermer: Why Darwin Matters
Michael Shermer, the founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine, argues Why Darwin Matters: Evolution, Intelligent Design and the Battle for Science and Religion in this talk presented by the Division of Biological Sciences and the Helen Edison Lecture Series at the University of California, San Diego.
Series: Helen Edison Lecture Series [5/2009] [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 15584]
Series: Helen Edison Lecture Series [5/2009] [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 15584]
The Bible as Fan Fiction
Jenn looks at the Bible as just fan fiction.
The Atheist Experience TV Show Atheist Experience #800: The Bible as Fan Fiction
Host: Matt Dillahunty
Co-Host: Jen Peeples
Show date: 2013-02-10
The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at a non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin.
The Atheist Community of Austin (http://www.atheist-community.org) is organized as 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.
DVDs of the Atheist Experience can be purchased via our products page (http://www.atheist-community.org/products/).
The Atheist Experience TV Show Atheist Experience #800: The Bible as Fan Fiction
Host: Matt Dillahunty
Co-Host: Jen Peeples
Show date: 2013-02-10
The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at a non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin.
The Atheist Community of Austin (http://www.atheist-community.org) is organized as 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.
DVDs of the Atheist Experience can be purchased via our products page (http://www.atheist-community.org/products/).
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Archimedes' Secret (BBC Documentary)
This is the story of a book that could have changed the history of the World. To the untrained eye, it is nothing more than a small and unassuming Byzantine prayer book, yet it sold at Christies for over $2m. For faintly visible beneath the prayers on its pages are other, unique, writings - words that have been lost for nearly two thousand years.
The text is the only record of work by one of the world's greatest minds - the ancient Greek, Archimedes - a mathematical genius centuries ahead of his time. Hidden for a millennium in a middle eastern library, it has been written over, broken up, painted on, cut up and re-glued. But in the nick of time scientists have saved the precious, fragile document, and for the first time it is revealing just how revolutionary Archimedes' ideas were. If it had been available to scholars during the Renaissance, we might have reached the Moon over a hundred years ago.
The trail begins in the tenth century, when a scribe made a unique copy of the most important mathematics that Archimedes ever developed. For 200 years the document survived, but the mathematics in it was so complex that no one paid it any attention. So when one day a monk was looking for some new parchment - an expensive commodity at the time - to write a new prayer book, the answer seemed obvious. He used the Archimedes manuscript. He washed the Greek text off the pages, cut them in half, rebound them, and turned the Archimedes manuscript into an everyday prayer book. As he piously wrote out his prayers, he had no idea of the genius he was obliterating.
Several hundred years later, the Renaissance was under way. Scientists were beginning to grapple with new concepts, working out how mathematics could be used to explain the World around them. Little did they know that many of the problems they were just encountering Archimedes had already solved more than a thousand years before. So, tragically, they had to do that research all over again, setting back the development of science and technology immeasurably.
Then in 1906, in Constantinople, the document mysteriously turned up in a monastic library. An opportunistic scholar called Johan Ludwig Heiberg identified the text as Archimedes' writings. Although the Greek text was very faint, Heiberg was able to decipher some of it. What he found astonished him, and made the front page of the New York Times. He revealed that Archimedes' manuscript contained something called 'The Method', which showed not only Archimedes' final proofs, but for the first time revealed the process of how he went about making his discoveries.
BBC Documentary
The text is the only record of work by one of the world's greatest minds - the ancient Greek, Archimedes - a mathematical genius centuries ahead of his time. Hidden for a millennium in a middle eastern library, it has been written over, broken up, painted on, cut up and re-glued. But in the nick of time scientists have saved the precious, fragile document, and for the first time it is revealing just how revolutionary Archimedes' ideas were. If it had been available to scholars during the Renaissance, we might have reached the Moon over a hundred years ago.
The trail begins in the tenth century, when a scribe made a unique copy of the most important mathematics that Archimedes ever developed. For 200 years the document survived, but the mathematics in it was so complex that no one paid it any attention. So when one day a monk was looking for some new parchment - an expensive commodity at the time - to write a new prayer book, the answer seemed obvious. He used the Archimedes manuscript. He washed the Greek text off the pages, cut them in half, rebound them, and turned the Archimedes manuscript into an everyday prayer book. As he piously wrote out his prayers, he had no idea of the genius he was obliterating.
Several hundred years later, the Renaissance was under way. Scientists were beginning to grapple with new concepts, working out how mathematics could be used to explain the World around them. Little did they know that many of the problems they were just encountering Archimedes had already solved more than a thousand years before. So, tragically, they had to do that research all over again, setting back the development of science and technology immeasurably.
Then in 1906, in Constantinople, the document mysteriously turned up in a monastic library. An opportunistic scholar called Johan Ludwig Heiberg identified the text as Archimedes' writings. Although the Greek text was very faint, Heiberg was able to decipher some of it. What he found astonished him, and made the front page of the New York Times. He revealed that Archimedes' manuscript contained something called 'The Method', which showed not only Archimedes' final proofs, but for the first time revealed the process of how he went about making his discoveries.
BBC Documentary
Calling Sodomites 'Gay' Is An 'Abuse Of The Language'
Pastor Rick Scarborough says that gays are really "sodomites" and should be called such before warning that pedophiles will eventually be referred to as "happy people."
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