Being Excited About The Universe
Neil DeGrasse Tyson - Greatest Sermon Ever

I love this clip!

Tyson offers mankind a new source of excitement and intrigue based on reasonable fact, yet it is more spiritual than any idea or fact put forth by humans thus far. "We are stardust. We are in the Universe, and the Universe is in us, LITERALLY"


   Biology, Evolution, Natural Selection
Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
Dan Dennett: Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes
Richard Dawkins: Evolution is a FACT
Carl Sagan explains Natural Selection & Artifical Selection

It is much easier to understand Darwins Evolution when you think of Natural Selection as a verb, and not just as a noun. It becomes clear how Natural Selection not only applies to biological evolution, but to eveything in nature, everything in the Universe. Dr. Sagan points this out beautifully, and thus shows us that a concept like "A Designer" can be replaced with "Natural Selection". Design is indeed found everywhere, but there is no Designer. Complex strategies can be found everywhere, but there is no MIND behind them.

Daniel Dennett - The Genius of Charles Darwin
Transcription and Translation - Modeled in real time
DNA Replication - Miniature Biochemical Machines - Modeled in real time
Richard Dawkins: Saddles and Domes: Evolution of the Giant Tortoises
Richard Dawkins: Distribution of Life: The Iguanas of Galápagos
Richard Dawkins: Diatoms: The Evolution of a New Species
Richard Dawkins: Why are there still Chimpanzees?
Richard Dawkins: Show me the intermediate fossils!

   Sustainability, Biomimicry
Janine Benyus: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature
Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action

   Determinism, Free Will, Consciousness
Dennett on Consciousness and Free Will
Dan Dennett: Can we know our own minds?
Dan Dennett: The Magic of Consciousness - 3 of 6
Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome

   Skepticism & Intellectual Honesty - Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception
Michael Shermer: Why people believe strange things

   God, Religion, Aethesim, Morality
Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions
Who Says Science has Nothing to Say About Morality?
The Four Horsemen HD: Hour 1 of 2
The Four Horsemen HD: Hour 2 of 2

   Astronomy
Star Size Comparison and the Size of The Universe
Hubble Ultra Deep Field - Looking To The End Of Time

   Quantum Physics, Hidden Dimensions, String Theory, M-Theory,
Brian Greene: The Search For Hidden Dimensions
Brian Greene: The universe on a string

   Cosmology, The Big Bang, The Future of the Universe
Lawrence Krauss 'A Universe From Nothing'
Sean M Carroll on the Origin of the Universe & the Arrow of Time

   The Importance of Science and Evidence, The Poetry of Science
Michael Specter: The danger of science denial
The Poetry of Science: Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson