Stardust Plus Time Equals Us
From the 2009 Terry Lectures at Yale University by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack.
From the 2009 Terry Lectures at Yale University by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack.
In this lecture, William Grassie proposes that we focus science education more on what happened when than on how and why evolution occurs.
A keynote lecture by John Haught at the 2006 “Beyond Intelligent Design” symposium. The lecture is followed by a panel response including Ian Barbour, George Ellis, and Nancey Murphy, moderated by William Grassie. Evolutionary biology contributes much to our present understanding of life, and its promises also to deepen our understanding of human intelligence, ethics and…
Jason Silva deconstructs inspiration.
Spider silk is one of the most high-performance materials. Each species of spider can make up to 7 very different kinds of silk. How do they do it?
Alain de Botton suggests a “religion for atheists”—call it Atheism 2.0—that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual, and transcendence.
T. Boone Pickens promotes natural gas for energy security and as a bridge to alternatives in this 2012 TED talk.