A neat TV series on PBS, called Evolution, is now getting to be on YouTube (I guess it originally aired in 2002). Start here (Evolution Ep1: Darwin’s Dangerous Idea):
I know the first show/episode (Darwin’s Dangerous Idea) is on YouTube, broken up into 11 videos; I’m not sure about the rest of the episodes. If [...]
Jonathan Miller has a documentary that was aired on the BBC called Atheism: A Rough History Of Disbelief. It’s a well-done documentary on the origins of atheism. It’s nice to watch a program that actually solicits the expertise of today’s professional philosophers (e.g., Miller talks with Colin McGinn, Daniel Dennett, etc.).
Here’s the first [...]
Barack Obama made a stop at Santa Barbara City College on 9/8/2007. I went with several others. I post about it because there’s some nice media available on it that I can post here.
Here’s a news story about it:
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2007/sep/09/obama-stumps-at-city-college-in-santa-barbara/
Fellow philosophy grad student, Dan Dolson, is even quoted in it (that reporter from the [...]
Part 2 of Richard Dawkins’s documentary, The Enemies of Reason, is available to watch for free here (you can even download it):
It’s about 48 minutes long.
