Beyond Belief 3 - Candles in the Dark

Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark is the third in an annual series of conversations: an ongoing project to foster and promote the use of reason in formulating social policy. This year, we asked participants to propose a Candle -- a potential solution to a problem that they have identified in their area of expertise or informed passion. In The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan wrote: "Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness." At The Science Network, we embrace scientific meliorism (last year's meeting, after all, was entitled Enlightenment 2.0). We support science in its search for solutions. Can we better understand the neural underpinnings of human nature, our decision-making processes, the dynamics of trust and fear and human flourishing? This U.S. election year, when science and reason in the nation's deliberations have been repeatedly challenged as irrelevant or elitist, and science seems to be estranged from society, Sagan's words sound prophetic -- an alarm call. Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark is our response. thesciencenetwork.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Video Stream: DivX 5.0 codec 'DX50' , 320x240, 24 bit, 24335 frm, 25.0000 frm/s, 215.416 kbit/s Audio Stream: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) , 22050 Hz, 64.000 kbit/s, Mono Codec: DivX 5.0 codec 'DX50' Kilobits per second: 215.416 Frames per second: 25.0000 Frame size: 320x240 pixels Aspect ratio: 1.33 Frame proportion: 3x4 Effective bits per pixel: 0.112 Effective bits per frame 3x4: 8638 Video compression: 99.533% Power of video compression: 213.9:1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Peter Atkins Roger Bingham (The Science Network Director) Patricia Churchland Nita Farahany Owen Flanagan Jonathan Glover Beatrice Golomb A.C. Grayling Guven Guzeldere Jonathan Haidt Sam Harris Tony Haymet Marco Iacoboni Sheril Kirshenbaum Brian Knutson Adam Kolber George Koob Lawrence Krauss Harold Kroto Leon Lederman Sonja Lyubomirsky Chris Mooney Erin O'Hara Naomi Oreskes Amanda Pustilnik V.S. Ramachandran Sally Satel Terrence Sejnowski Michael Shermer Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Peter Turchin Paul Zak Philip Zimbardo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beyond Belief is an annual symposium which brings together a group of scientists and philosophers to explore questions and answers about human nature and society. The event is organized by The Science Network in association with the Crick-Jacobs Center. Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark was the third in an annual series of conversations (Beyond Belief): an ongoing project to foster and promote the use of reason in formulating social policy. Participants were asked to propose a Candle - a potential solution to a problem that they have identified in their area of expertise or informed passion. This event was organized by The Science Network and was held on October 3 - 6, 2008 at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Belief:_Candles_in_the_Dark

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denizzo (2009-01-02)

this is entirely from google video no point in downloadin it
but i would definetely appreciate if someone uploaded an dvd rip
thanx anyway

BigBrother1984 (2009-01-08)

I think the point is to allow you to watch the entire thing in a playlist, instead of having to navigate to a new page and press "play" 48 times. But yes, a DVD rip would be better.

sawsd (2009-01-26)

Thank you so much!
A torrent is way better than doing all that downloading work.