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"Ideas worth spreading"? Sounds nice, but how they determine which ideas are worth spreading?
Speakers[edit]
People who had given TED talks and have articles at RationalWiki or are related to its mission:
- Julian Assange (Why The World Needs Wikileaks, 2010)
- Brian Cox (An Inside Tour of the World's Biggest Supercollider, 2008, and What went wrong in the Large Hadron Collider, 2009)
- Richard Dawkins (An atheist's call to arms, 2002, and The universe is queerer than we can suppose, 2005)
- Daniel Dennett ("Dan Dennett on dangerous memes", 2002, "Dan Dennett on our consciousness", 2003, "Dan Dennett's response to Rick Warren", 2006, and Cute, sexy, sweet, funny, 2009)
- Freeman Dyson (Let's look for life in the outer solar system, 2003)
- Al Gore (15 Ways to Avert a Climate Crisis, 2006, and New Thinking on the Climate Crisis, 2008. One of there reportedly made Michael Shermer to accept global warming.)
- Sam Harris (Science can answer moral questions, 2010)
- Raymond Kurzweil ("Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us", 2005)
- Bjørn Lomborg (Our priorities for saving the world, 2007)
- Elaine Morgan (Did we evolve from aquatic apes?, 2009 - an especially bad one)
- James Randi (James Randi's fiery takedown of psychic fraud, 2007) [1]
- Adam Savage (Adam Savage's Obsessions, 2008)
- Michael Shermer (Strange Beliefs, 2006)
TEDx[edit]
- Peter Joseph, TEDxPortugal 2010
- Lynne McTaggart (was in What the Bleep Do We Know?), TEDxBrussels 2010 [2]
- Stuart Hameroff (was in the same movie, same TEDx?)
- TEDxCARDIFF: Google Consciousness - Maf Lewis, Rome Viharo (see the JREF Forum; Rome Viharo is this guy)