It’s always fun, in a peculiar way, to look at video of the debate between Jerry Lettvin and Timothy Leary, held in 1967 at MIT, and broadcast on public television station WGBH. This was about whether it was a bad idea or a good idea to use psychedelic drugs to “drop out” of mainstream society. […]
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“The Bohr-Einstein Debates, With Dog Puppets”
Perhaps the simplest thing to say about this video by Chad Orzel is that it may be self-explanatory. It’s called “The Bohr-Einstein Debates, With Dog Puppets“: [vimeo]7916458[/vimeo]
Politicians R 2 Simple, explain 2 Ig Nobel winners
Politicians are too simple. Two Ig Nobel Prize winners — both, as it happens, professors at Stanford University — each gives part of the explanation. (As with many simple facts, the explanation is a bit complex.) Politicians’ simple debates Professor John Perry, a philosopher, looked at politicians’ televised debates. In an essay for the New […]