Everything You Need to Know About Planet Earth
[7:21] Planet Earth is this solid thing you are standing on right now. In your everyday life you don’t really wast…
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What Happened Before History? Human Origins
[10:05] Humans. We have been around for a while now. When we think about our past we think about ancient civilizations, t…
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Sean Carroll – Arguments for Atheism?
[7:06] Turn the tables on God’s existence. Start with atheism, not with theism. Atheists take their best shots a…
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Sean Carroll – Did the Universe Begin?
[9:38] Some scientists claim that the universe did not have a beginning. Some theologians contend that the universe di…
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Babies on the Brink
[5:30] Since the 1960s, developmental psychologists point to the “Visual Cliff”—an experiment that …
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Have you ever seen an atom?
[2:31] Scientists at the University of California Los Angeles have found a way to create stunningly detailed 3D recons…
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Does Morality Need God?
[4:34] Philosopher Colin McGinn and theologian Denys Turner discuss the question of whether atheism can coexist with …
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Sue Savage-Rumbaugh: What Bonobos Can Teach Us
[5:23] At Great Ape Trust, TIME 100 honoree Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh studies the cognitive development of bonobos, per…
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Human brains compared to other animals
[1:34] An elephant’s brain is four times heavier than a human’s. But as a percentage of its body mass it ran…
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The Atheism Tapes #3: Daniel Dennett
[29:04] American philosopher Dennett explains why he called one of his books Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, and why m…
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