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plumjam
6th January 2008, 03:32 AM
Anyone know of any similar sites to this one?

http://meaningoflife.tv/video.php?speaker=wilson&topic=complete

Each interview is about an hour long. The participants are:

Lorenzo Albacete
Karen Armstrong
Daniel Dennett
Freeman Dyson
Francis Fukuyama
Owen Gingerich
Joseph Goldstein
Ursula Goodenough
John Haught
John Maynard Smith
Andrew Newberg
Arthur Peacocke
Steven Pinker
John Polkinghorne
Robert Pollack
Omid Safi
Sharon Salzberg
Huston Smith
Brian Swimme
Keith Ward

blobru
6th January 2008, 08:04 AM
Anyone know of any similar sites to this one?

http://meaningoflife.tv/video.php?speaker=wilson&topic=complete


Not offhand, but thanks for this one -- great resource!

The site-holder and interviewer, Robert Wright, is best known for a couple of books on evolutionary ethics: "The Moral Animal" and "Nonzero".

lupus_in_fabula
6th January 2008, 01:05 PM
They’re also on Google Video if you wish to look at them from a bigger screen.

Not interviews, but interesting presentations and discussions nonetheless: Beyond Belief;
2006: http://thesciencenetwork.org/BeyondBelief/watch/
2007: http://thesciencenetwork.org/BeyondBelief2/watch/

I also like this site (WGBH Forum Network): http://www.forum-network.org/wgbh/

joobz
6th January 2008, 01:11 PM
thanks a lot.
Now I have to apologize to my wife for the 20 hours that i'll be ignoring her.:)

LibraryLady
6th January 2008, 01:14 PM
There's this. (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/audiofiles.html#hawking)