'Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan expound on violence, alienation and the electronic envelope. The clash of two great minds'. Very intriguing clip. Couldn't find many external specifics on this debate... continue reading

posted by deputydog 1 decade 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 4,369 views

Very interesting. At one point the monks were covered in cold wet sheets and were able to heat their bodies to the point where the material was steaming.

posted by deputydog 1 decade 7 years 7 months ago • 15,692 views

Can you think of 100 different uses for a sock? How would you cope with glasses that turn everything upside down? What's your emotional intelligence? Can you create a work of art in ten minutes? Horizon... continue reading

posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 7 months ago • 4,360 views

Slavoj Zizek, is a Lacanian-Marxist philosopher from Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Zizek, who has been translated into more than 20 languages and has written books on subjects as wide-ranging as... continue reading

posted by lucasgreen 1 decade 7 years 7 months ago • 859 views

A 1994 documentary which goes on an imaginative tour from the Colorado grave where Dick is buried to the suburbs of California where he lived and worked. Talks to his ex-wives, friends and biographers... continue reading

posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 3,767 views

Dawkins discusses how morals shift over time, between generations and without regard to religious status. Here are some of the people, events and topics he references throughout the clip: Thomas Henry Huxley ... continue reading

posted by xxovercastxx 1 decade 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 4,746 views • 10:08

This is an interview which was cut from "The root of all evil?" but is now released uncut.

posted by BicycleRepairMan 1 decade 7 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 1,719 views

This is part 2, part 1 about his retirement is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzHXus7dQlw

posted by lisacat 1 decade 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 1,547 views

A scene from Derek Jarman's film 'Wittgenstein' (1989) in which Wittgenstein discusses the nature of language and the thought behind a sentence like "This is a very pleasant pineapple."

posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 2,414 views

Speaking to a sold out crowd at the Berkeley Physics Oppenheimer Lecture on March 13 2007, Hawking said that he now believes the universe spontaneously popped into existence from "nothing" without violating... continue reading

posted by jwray 1 decade 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,438 views • 10:02

In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically... continue reading

posted by Constitutional_Patriot 1 decade 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 4,963 views