Does Science Refute God?

The two teams debate the motion "Science Refutes God"

Is belief in God rational? Or has science shown the existence of God to be so unlikely as to make belief irrational?

Two physicists, a skeptic and a scholar tried to answer those questions.
Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist and the director of the Origins Project and a professor of physics at the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.
Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and editor of Skeptic.com and a monthly columnist for Scientific American and an adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University and Chapman University.
Ian Hutchinson is a physicist and professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dinesh D'Souza is the author of What's So Great About Christianity (2008).
Source: NPR: Does Science Refute God?

The Other Scott Horton

Official Crimes

The Other Scott Horton, Contributing Editor for Harper’s Magazine, discusses the European Court of Human Rights’ condemnation of Bush-era CIA torture practices within the rendition program. He talks with Scott Horton on the U.S. justice system’s failure to make federal government officials accountable for crimes.
Source: The Other Scott Horton

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Music includes Hugh Birdsall - Bombs Away Lock and Load, The Billionaires For Bush - Billionaires Are In the House, Studies In Non-Violent Action - Ghandi Is Camping Out At City Hall, Johnny Cash - Gettysburg Address, Crosby & Stills & Nash and Young - Carry On, Supaclean - Beat The Bushes, Kenny Rogers - Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town, Creedence Clearwater Revival - Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog, John Fogerty - Deja Vu All Over Again, The Producers Soundtrack - Goodbye!, Mariachi Aguila Real - El Jarabe Tapatio

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Climate Warriors

Michael Mann, Katharine Hayhoe,
Bill Anderegg, Greg Dalton

Michael Mann warns that "we can't allow science to be killed. We can't allow the scientific agenda to be set by those that have vested interests to not have the truth be unveiled." Over the past decade climate science has become increasingly political. Climate scientists who have taken on public roles cope with personal threats, hacking attacks and assaults on their professional integrity. "We are not in this because we value people's opinions of us. We are not in this because we want to receive pleasant emails in the morning. We are in this because this is the truth and we have to tell it," said evangelist climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe.

Michael Mann, Katharine Hayhoe, and Bill Anderegg discuss their experiences as climate scientists in a field under the magnifying glass of politics, economics and amplified emotions with Greg Dalton.

Michael Mann is Professor of Geosciences, Penn State and author of "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars".
Katharine Hayhoe is Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas Tech University. Bill Anderegg is Doctoral Student at Stanford.
Greg Dalton founded Climate One at The Commonwealth Club in 2007.
Get the transcript here.
Source: Climate One: Political Science

Barbara Jordan

Barbara Jordan gives the keynote address to the 1976 Democratic Convention.

Barbara Jordan was a leader of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Music includes Roy Zimmerman - Real America, Frank Zappa - I'm The Slime, Neil Young - War Song (single with Graham Nash), Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Capitol Steps - Do You Fear What I Fear?, Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain?, Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA, Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb, Charlie Parker - Now's The Time

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The Really Big Challenges Of the 21st Century

There was a time when Americans made dreams come true. Such as flying to the moon and conquering polio. Hear Tom Ashbrook search for the answers.

Where are the dreams of the 21st century? What can be done with energy, water, cancer and climate change?

Jason Pontin

Jason Pontin is editor in chief of the MIT Technology Review. You can find their issue on big ideas here. Why We Can't Solve Big Problems

David Keith

David Keith is professor of applied physics at Harvard University School of Engineering and professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Jeffrey Grossman

Jeffrey Grossman is professor of materials science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Source: On Point: Big Challenges

The Honest Truth about Dishonesty with Dan Ariely and Indre Viskontas

Our world is populated with cheats and liars. Most of us think of major cheaters like Bernie Madoff, Tiger Woods, and Barry Bonds as inflicting the most damage onto society. But just how honest are we, with others and with ourselves? The surprising finding from several studies conducted by Dan Ariely and his collaborators is that we all cheat. He claims that the consequences of these little everyday deceptions can sometimes far outweigh the ill effects of even the biggest lies.

Indre Viskontas is a writer, neuroscientist, and opera singer, holds a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience and a master of music in vocal performance. Her scientific research explores the neural basis of memory and creativity. She has published more than thirty original peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.

Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, with appointments at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the Department of Economics, and the School of Medicine. Dan earned one PhD in cognitive psychology and another PhD in business administration. He is the founder and director of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. His work has been featured in many outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and others. His two previous New York Times best-selling books are Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality.
Source: Point Of Inquiry: Dan Ariely - The Honest Truth about Dishonesty

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Music includes Symphony of Science - Our Biggest Challenge, Matisyahu - One Day (New Album Version), Roymond - Just Blue, Zinn on Cspan - Patriot, Ed McCurdy - Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream, John Prine - Sam Stone, Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson - Me and Paul, Pete Seeger - Where Have All The Flowers Gone, Requiem For A Dream, Richard Nixon 8-8-1974, Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again, Herb Alpert - Zorba the Greek

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Energy Evolution

Amory B. Lovins

Amory B. Lovins and Edward Lucas discuss how bold solutions for the new energy era is akin to reinventing fire. Dr. Amory B. Lovins is co-founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute. Edward Lucas is International Editor of The Economist.
Source: Reinventing Fire: Bold Solutions for the New Energy Era

Bruce E. Levine

Does TV Help Make Americans Passive and Accepting of Authority?

Bruce E. Levine, a clinical psychologist and author, discusses how TV makes Americans passive and accepting of authority. He talks with Scott Horton about the mental health issues and social isolation caused by watching television and how the corporate state has essentially colonized Americans who as a result cannot effect political change.
Source: Bruce E. Levine

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Music includes Graham Nash and James Raymond - Almost Gone, Bob Marley & The Wailers - War, Woody Guthrie - Jesus Christ, Makana - We Are The Many, Chris Brown and Kate Fenner - Resist War, David Rovics - Operation Iraqi Liberation, Brian Wilson - Gone Gone Gone, Terry Gangstad - Theatre of the Whine, Temptations - Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today), Earth Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland, Beatles - All You Need Is Love, Emmanuel Rodriguez - Midnight in Ethiopia

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Should Drugs Be Legalized?

Paul Butler & Nick Gillespie

Theodore Dalrymple & Asa Hutchinson

Would the United States be better off legalizing all recreational drugs? A panel of experts tackled that question in an Oxford-style debate.

Paul Butler is a criminal law scholar and professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
Nick Gillespie is editor-in-chief of Reason.com and ReasonTV, the online platforms of Reason, the libertarian magazine of "free minds and free markets."
Asa Hutchinson, former administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, is currently CEO of Hutchinson Group, a homeland security consulting firm, and practices law in northwestern Arkansas.
Theodore Dalrymple is a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist, who most recently practiced in a British inner city hospital and prison.
Source: NPR: Should We Legalize Drugs?

Marvin E. Odum

Christine Todd Whitman

Frederic Krupp

Daniel Franklin

The future of energy

The world continues to face critical energy challenges. With political change happening in many parts of the world what can the world expect?

Panel includes:
Marvin E. Odum, President of Shell Oil
Christine Todd Whitman, Governor of New Jersey, Adminstrator of EPA
Frederic Krupp, President of Environmental Defense Fund
Daniel Franklin, Executive Editor of The Economist
Source: C-SPAN: Energy Policy In 2013

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Music includes Tom Lehrer - The Old Dope Peddler, Musiq (Soulchild) - Are You Experienced?, Putumayo - Why Am I a Rastaman, Billy Bragg - The World Turned Upside Down, Crosby & Stills & Nash and Young - Carry On, Odetta - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child, Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain, Art Baron & Jay Ungar & Matt Glaser - Kingdom Coming, Frank Zappa - I Am The Walrus, Greatful Dead - US Blues, Stephen Longfellow Fiske - Earth Anthem, Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan - La Negra

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Health Care For Some?

Beatrix Hoffman

Beatrix Hoffman talks about the history of the American health care system. She explains why the United States has been one of the few developed countries to not adopt universal health care and examines why the issue is so divisive.

Beatrix Hoffman is the author of The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America. She is a professor and chair of the history department at Northern Illinois University.
Source: BookTV: Health Care For Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States Since 1930

Manuel Castells

Alternative economics

Manuel Castells talks about the current economic downturn. He urges a profound reassessment of our economic beliefs and institutions.
Source: Analysis: Alternative economic cultures

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Music includes Jack Hardy & Jill Burkee & Mark Dann & Steve Forbert - This Land Is Your Land, Woody Herman and the Herd - Fanfare for the Common Man, Odetta - No Expectations, Crosby & Stills & Nash and Young - Carry On, The Lion King - Circle Of Life, Capitol Steps - Al-Jazeera, George Carlin - Modern Man, Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising, Ryan Harvey - The Day They Caught Saddam Hussein, FDR 9-23-1944, Young Ladies - My Country 'Tis of Thee, National Parks

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How Big Companies Rob You

David Cay Johnston

How Big Companies Use Plain English To Rob You Blind with David Cay Johnston. “No other modern country gives corporations the unfettered power found in America to gouge cus­tomers, shortchange workers, and erect barriers to fair play. A big reason is that so little of the news . . . addresses the private, government-approved mechanisms by which price gouging is employed to redistribute income upward.”
Source: The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use Plain English To Rob You Blind" with David Cay Johnston

John Fasullo

The Best Climate Projections Are Extreme

Climate scientists agree that the planet is warming, but there is a wide range of projections as to how hot it’s going to get. An analysis from scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research finds that the more alarming estimates may be the most accurate. John Fasullo, one of the climate scientists responsible for the analysis, joins Steve Curwood to discuss the future of our warming planet.
Source: The Best Climate Projections Are Extreme

Why is America always at war? with Danny Schechter, filmmaker and blogger.
Source: Is America always at war?

David Roberts

Climate Change Is Simple with David Roberts, staff writer for Grist.
Source: Climate Change Is Simple - David Roberts Remix

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Music includes Roy Zimmerman - Vote Republican, Jimi Hendrix - Spanish Castle Magic, The Beach Boys - Surf's Up, George Harrison - Peace, Jack Johnson Feat & Ben Harper - With My Own Two Hands, The Lion King - Hakuna Matata, The Matrix Trailer, Frank Sinatra - Mack the Knife, David Klein - Beanie for Peace, The New Kingston Trio - Try To Remember, Inca Flutes - Zona Roya

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