ORIGINS: Inconvenient Truths - From Love to Extinctions (OFFICIAL) - (Part 01/02)
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Part 02: https://youtu.be/YlV64GZdeMg Join us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Kolbert, accomplished writer, columnist and publisher of Skeptic Magazine Michael Shermer, professor and archaeologist Curtis Marean, and Origins Project director Lawrence Krauss, and more for a revealing evening of inconvenient truths, from love to extinctions. This on stage unscripted and candid discussion will cover a variety of topics, including accounts of first-hand encounters of participants' scientific and journalistic journeys all over the world, as well as in-depth looks into aspects of skepticism, power, deceit, climate change, and the environment. Download the flyer. Kolbert’s career as a journalist and author began in 1983 when she worked for The New York Times, and has made her way from writing columns to best-selling non-fictions books, including her 2006 book Field Notes from a Catastrophe. She has also been an observer and commentator on environmentalism for The New Yorker magazine. Kolbert received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, a regular contributor to Time.com, and Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. His new book is The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom. Shermer is the founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. Shermer is also the producer and co-host of the 13-hour Fox Family television series Exploring the Unknown. He is also a scientific advisor to the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH). Marean is a professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the associate director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University. He is interested in the relation between climate and environmental change and human evolution, both for its significance as a force driving past human evolution, and as a challenge to be faced in the near future. Curtis has focused his career on developing field and laboratory teams and methods that tap the synergy between the disciplines to bring new insights to old scientific problems. He has spent over 20 years doing fieldwork in Africa, and conducting laboratory work on the field-collected materials, with the goal of illuminating the final stages of human evolution – how modern humans became modern. Krauss is an author, professor, theoretical physicist and director of the Origins Project, with wide research interests including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his research and writing and is the only physicist to have received major awards from all three U.S Physics Societies. Considered by Scientific American to be a rare scientific public intellectual, he writes regularly for the New York Times, New Yorker, and other media on issues of science, and science and society. In 2015 he was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association. Get the most recent updates from the Origins Project by following us on Facebook /ASUOriginsProject and Twitter @asuORIGINS. Contact origins.project@asu.edu with questions. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Recorded October 19, 2016. Full event details online at https://origins.asu.edu/events/conversation-inconvenient-truths-love-extinctions. Video by Black Chalk Productions.
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Shermer awesome as always.
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If people of Eurasian descent have Neanderthal DNA but people of African descent do not, does this make them separate species?
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Krauss is a ROCKSTAR for people who like to learn
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How about reading the Qur'an? Scientific information presented 1,400 years ago. Oh and 9/11 was an inside job unless you watch too much TV.
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I was surprised to hear Michael Shermer, whom I respect a lot, say that avoiding climate change is compatible with free market capitalism, which is a catalyst of climate change and the political denial. Solving the climate crisis requires and end of the wasteful and polluting aspects of capitalism as well as warfare, poverty and injustice. "Adapting" to climate change means adapting to the suffering of millions, if not billions, due to forced migrations, food and water shortages and extreme weather. The suffering will be disproportionately allocated to the most vulnerable on the planet. Not to mention the extinctions of countless species and possible collapse of the ocean food chain.
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The psychology of 'usness' could also lead to interspecies division and conflict, known as speciesism.
"'Speciesism' is the idea that being human is a good enough reason for human animals to have greater moral rights than non-human animals.
...a prejudice or bias in favour of the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species."
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Why didn't they touch upon Isis more or proclivities to war? i would bet that the world would end from fighting before global warming.
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1:27:14 Handed the election on a silver platter, eh?
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Very annoying camera work. Why the need to switch between cameras when a slide is being presented?
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400 000 thousand hiroshima Bombs of waste CO2 (because CO2 is waste and not the fundamental nutrient of plants). How are we supposed to take the "religion of enviromentalism" seriously with statements like this?
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Is it possible to invite Elon Mask on origins?
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Amazing. :) I am now eagerly waiting for the next one scheduled in February. These should happen more often!
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I think Krauss himself had said that 99 % of species are extinct. So why bother about it? It's natural selection.
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Elizabeth Kolbert and Curits Marean add so much to the proverbial table of discourse. I think that they add quite a mature and grounded voice to the topics covered.
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I see a tight trousers contest going on between krauss and shermer
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Ohhh how I missed the Origins Project! I can say it proudly that it is gonna be a long night! Thank you!
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