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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist and, since 1996, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. Since 2006, he has hosted PBS's educational television show NOVA scienceNOW. He has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Jeopardy!. Tyson had an abiding interest in astronomy from a young age—and obsessively studied it in his teens—eventually even gaining some fame in the astronomy community by giving lectures on the subject at the age of 15.
The Cosmos
An epic and spellbinding voyage through the Universe. Explore distant planets, stars, galaxies, nebulae, supernovas, black holes and beyond. From the first microseconds of our Universe to the exciting future
Best of TED Talks
TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences curated by the American private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading". Since 2007, the talks have been offered for free viewing online, under a Creative Commons license, through TED.com. More than 700 talks are currently available. As of April 2009, the talks have been viewed over 250 million times by more than 25 million people. TED was founded in 1984 as a one off event, and the conference was held annually from 1990 in Monterey, California. TED's early emphasis, was largely technology and design, consistent with a Silicon Valley center of gravity. The events are now held in Long Beach and Palm Springs in the U.S. as well as in Europe and Asia, offering live streaming of the talks. They address an increasingly wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture. The speakers (trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses) are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can. http://www.ted.com
Symphony of Science
John Boswell, a musician from Washington state, created project Symphony of Science to spread scientific knowledge through musical remixes.
Made Easy: From Big Bang to Us
This series explains the scientific evidence for our origins, from the Big Bang to the human migration out of Africa, in a way that most 7th-graders would understand. It challenges people who believe we were created by a deity 6,000 years ago to confront the evidence instead of ignoring it. A DVD (including corrections) will be available for schools and educational groups.
Why Do People Laugh at Creationists?
These videos were made for the communal and greater good. All these videos are copyright free for educational purposes, feel free to mirror these videos with or without accreditation. Part of a series of videos exposing the funny stupidity of creationists and why they deserve to be laughed at. In each case the creationist statements are shown to be outrageously stupid by even the most rudimentary knowledge of science. Creationist are tackled at every level from the scientific illiterates like venomfangx who want to play in the scientific arena but don't even understand the words they use, to convicted fraudsters like Kent Hovind who abuse the scientifical illiteracy of people like venomfangx to dupe them out of money. An enterprise which is clearly very successful as merely the tax Hovind didn't pay was about a million dollars. Hovind himself has no discernible academic education, and gets by solely on using his confident delivery of scientific terms to convince his audiences that he knows what hes talking about. Then of course there are the professional such as the Discovery Institute, the hub and founders of the Intelligent design movement. After the humiliating rout of ID in court where it was found that 'ID is not science', and that 'ID is only a relabelling of creationism' the Discovery Institute do not utter the word once in their latest promotional video. Instead they now have decided to 'teach the controversy' which is an irony as they are the only people who disagree with evolution. What they are really asking is not to teach the controversy, but to teach their views, which are supported by neither research or evidence, in schools.





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