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Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything

submitted by arvana

1 decade 5 years 12 months ago

"Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world's creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity."

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It's rare to see such an excellent presentation on endangered species presented with such excellent humor. Such a shame he's dead now.

yeah he's good. nice one.

I love his stories.

*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 12:54pm PST - promote requested by lavoll.

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Great stories, and perfect for Earth Day :-)

FYI - I found this transcript of the talk, with links to some of the animals he mentions, and a link about his favorite book.

Parrots, the Universe and Everything - Transcript
http://navarroj.com/parrots/

"Last Chance to See", Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine, 1990
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Chance_to_See

petpeeved says...

Damn. Beaten to the post by a mere 3 years and four months. Curse you arvana.

Anyway, I was going to sift this wonderful lecture but instead I'll just upvote it.

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