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In this Channel 4 documentary British evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins argues that the world would be better off without religion. He thinks that "the process of non-thinking called faith" is not a way of understanding the world, but instead stands in fundamental opposition to modern science and the scientific method, and is divisive and dangerous.

The Root of All Evil? Part I

The Root of All Evil? Part II

"Free to Choose" is a legendary PBS television show by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman. The whole series is now available on Google Video for free (courtesy of Palmer R. Chitester Fund).

(Dr. Milton Friedman died on November 16, 2006, at the age of 94.)

Milton Friedman - "Free to Choose" (Episodes overview and links to Google Video)

James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, August 7, 1928 in Toronto, Ontario), more often known as The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and skeptic, best known as a debunker of pseudoscience. He is perhaps most known for the One Million Dollar Challenge, in which his James Randi Education Foundation will award a prize of one million USD to anyone who is able to demonstrate any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event, under test conditions agreed to by both parties.

James Randi debunks Uri Geller and Peter Popoff

60 minutes: The World around Us - Randi vs. Geller (video quality is not the best)

Journalist Robert Wright (author of the book "The Moral Animal") discusses the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything with prominent thinkers like Francis Fukuyama (Professor of Political Economy), Steven Pinker (Professor of Psychology), Daniel Dennett (Professor of Philosophy), John Maynard Smith (Evolutionary Biologist), Freeman Dyson (Professor of Physics) and many more.

MeaningofLife.tv

"Authors@Google is a speaker series where thought-provoking, Zeitgeist-making, trend-setting authors come to the Googleplex to read from their works and share their thoughts with us. The following authors have agreed to release their talks to the world on Google Video." Source: Google Video

Highlights:

Seth Godin - "All Marketers are Liars"

Dr. James Watson - "DNA and the Brain"

David Vise - "The Google Story"

John Battelle - "The Search"

"Each year, the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference hosts some of the world's most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses. Now ... we're sharing some of the most remarkable TED talks with the world at large. ... For best effect, plan to listen to at least three, start to finish. They have a cumulative effect..." Source: TED Conferences LLC

TED Talks (Google Video) TED Talks (ted.com)

Highlights:

TED: Al Gore (2006) Former U.S. Vice-President

TED: Sir Ken Robinson (2006) Influential advocate for educational quality

TED: Hans Rosling (2006) video Professor of International Health

Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Professional magicians/comedians Penn Jillette and Teller aim to debunk an array of metaphysical and supernatural BS by applying critical thinking and scientific skepticism. They also explain us in a humerous and informal way, why lots of products, services and ideas that we buy into are just plain - bullshit!

Most of the 49 episodes (saison 1-4) are now availabe on Google Video for free.

Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Overview and links to full length episodes on Google Video)

A quality documentary about hacking from the 1960's to date. Takes a historical approach, looking at the role of the hacker during this time. Profiling Steve Wozniak, John Draper alias Captain Crunch and Kevin Mitnick.

(A September Films Production for Channel 4)

The History Of Hacking

From BBC: "This is the story behind the fiendishly addictive game, a tale of high stakes, intimidation and legal feuds set against the backdrop of Cold War tensions between East and West."

Tetris: From Russia with Love

Excellent short 40 min documentary interview with Dr. Richard P. Feynman - one of the greatest physicist of the last century and a Nobel Laureate.

During World War II Feynman helped to develop the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project and was later a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Richard P. Feynman - The Pleasure of Finding Things out

Monty Python star Terry Jones, presents The Story of 1, a one-off BBC One documentary on the history of numbers in which he merges slapstick, quirky humour and learning.

Terry Jones - "The Story of 1"

"One of the most ambitious and exciting theories ever proposed—one that may be the long-sought "theory of everything," which eluded even Einstein—gets a masterful, lavishly computer-animated explanation from bestselling author-physicist Brian Greene, when NOVA presents the nuts, bolts, and sometimes outright nuttiness of string theory." (PBS Broadcast)

The Elegant Universe - Einstein's Dream

The Elegant Universe - String's the Thing

The Elegant Universe - Welcome to the 11th Dimension

"Look up at the stars and you see a million points of light - you're looking at the entire universe. But what is out there? Let Sam Neill be your guide as state-of-the-art computer graphics take you on the ultimate journey beyond any known universe." (BBC 2001)

Programme 1: Star Stuff

Programme 2: Staying Alive

Programme 3: Black Holes

Programme 4: Are We Alone?

Programme 5: New Worlds

Programme 6: Boldly Go

Special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman use their skills and expertise to test the validity of various rumors and urban legends of popular culture.

Is it possible to break glass with human voice? Can you find a needle in a hay stack? Do plants grow better if you talk to them?

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman: MythBusters

Produced in the mid 1980s by Jeremy Taylor and Richard Dawkins for BBC's Horizon series. It was based mainly on the chapter of the same name in the Second Edition of "The Selfish Gene".

Richard Dawkins - "Nice guys finish first"

"University of California Television (UCTV) is a 24-hour, non-commercial satellite channel that broadcasts educational and enrichment programming from the campuses, national laboratories, and affiliated institutions of the University of California. UCTV delivers science, health and medicine, public affairs, humanities, and the arts to a general audience, as well as specialized programming for health care professionals and teachers." Source: Google Video

Highlights:

The Origin of the Human Mind: Insights from Brain Imaging and Evolution

Grey Matters: Music and the Mind

Conversations with History: On Theory, with Nobel Prize Winner Amartya Sen

Conversations with History: The Peace Movement in Historical Perspective, with Nobel Prize Winner Linus Pauling

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Google Video Top 100

Video picks by the Google Video team.

The official Google Video Blog

In the legendary tv series "Cosmos" American astronomer Carl Sagan explains the history of our planet, the origin of life, the life cycle of stars and many other topics.

The series won an Emmy and a Peabody Award and has been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by over 600 million people, according to the Science Channel.

Carl Sagan's "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

"A Brief History of Disbelief" is a 2005 documentary series conducted by Jonathan Miller for the BBC tracing the history of Atheism.

(Not available at the moment!)

A Brief History of Disbelief Pt.1

A Brief History of Disbelief Pt. 2

A Brief History of Disbelief Pt. 3

The Atheist Tapes: Colin McGinn Steven Weinberg Richard Dawkins Denys Turner Daniel Dennett

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