not sure if anyone is intersted but these are some of the lecture sites i hit for random things, and several of the talks debates lectures and other such crap i found enlightening, entertaining, or just kinda cool. most of them are an hour or two long though so i dont know how many of you are going to bother but if your bored like me and have some time to kill... im not sure how to order these sooo...
Sites:
http://freevideolectures.com - video lectures on EVERYTHING, i haunt the psychology section, most are course lectures from various universities like UC berkley
http://oyc.yale.edu - yale university lectures online
http://www.fora.tv - lectures debates and videos by authors and experts in there fields, mostly US issues, but they have much from the austrailian broadcasting system
http://mitworld.mit.edu - lectures and talks from MIT
http://www.ted.com - Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
http://www.justiceharvard.org/ - A series of lectures on Justice from Harvard.
Athiest videos:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 4890&hl=en - Hitchens, Harris, Dawkins and Dennet sitting around a table talking about athiest part 1
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 8919&hl=en - part 2
-Sam Harris
http://fora.tv/2007/07/04/Clash_Between ... and_Reason - The Clash Between Faith and Reason
http://fora.tv/2005/12/09/View_From_End_Of_World - The View From The End Of The World
-Richard Dawkins
http://fora.tv/2006/10/23/Richard_Dawkins - Dawkins on The God Delusion from cspan
-Daniel Dennett
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_on ... memes.html - On dangerous Memes
-Christopher Hitchens
http://fora.tv/2007/05/07/Al_Sharpton_a ... r_Hitchens - Hitchens debates Al Sharpton on God
http://fora.tv/2007/10/11/Christopher_H ... er_McGrath - Hitchens debates Alister McGrath on God
http://fora.tv/2007/05/10/Christopher_H ... _and_Prose - Hitchens discusses his book god is not Great
http://www.vimeo.com/1904911 - Turek Vs Hitchens debate: Does god exist
http://fora.tv/2007/08/23/Uncommon_Know ... r_Hitchens - Hitchens on iraq 08.23.07
http://fora.tv/2009/07/09/Axis_of_Evil_ ... r_Hitchens - Hitchens on the axis of evil, iran iraq and N korea 07.09.09
http://fora.tv/2009/07/28/Uncommon_Know ... rt_Service - Christopher Hitchens & Robert Service on Leon Trotsky
http://fora.tv/2008/07/09/Uncommon_Know ... and_Hanson - On WWII revisionism
http://fora.tv/2006/04/20/Among_the_Dead_Cities - Hitchens and A.C. Grayling debate the morality of Allied bombing campaign of german civilians in WWII
http://fora.tv/2008/06/15/Hitchens_Wins ... e_Politics - Christopher Hitchens, Co-Creator and Former Head Writer of Comedy Central's The Daily Show Lizz Winstead, Barely Political creator Ben Relles, CitizenSugar Editor Zoe Stagg and Web Editor at The Onion Baratunde Thurston discuss new technology used in political campaigns
Intelligent Design
http://fora.tv/2008/08/18/Kenneth_Mille ... ent_Design - Kenneth Miller on Evolution and Intelligent Design
http://fora.tv/2008/12/01/Ian_Morison_G ... e_Universe - Ian Morison explains why God will never be ruled out by scientific progress
http://fora.tv/2009/05/23/Marcus_Chown_ ... red_Watson - Cosmology and quantum physics
Religion:
http://fora.tv/2006/04/05/Beginning_of_ ... Traditions - Karen Armstrong on The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
http://fora.tv/2008/06/23/Karen_Armstro ... s_Religion - Karen Armstrong: What is Religion?
http://fora.tv/2006/11/20/Karen_Armstrong - Karen Armstrong on her book Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
http://fora.tv/2008/02/27/Karen_Armstro ... Alan_Jones - Karen Armstrong in Conversation with Rev. Alan Jones
http://fora.tv/2009/08/14/Karen_Armstro ... Compassion - Karen Armstrong: Charter for Compassion
Other:
Ethics and Morality:
http://fora.tv/2009/07/20/Michael_Sande ... and_Morals - Michael Sandel on Markets and Morals
http://fora.tv/2009/07/27/Elie_Wiesel_W ... s_Us_Moral - Elie Wiesel: What Makes Us Moral?
http://fora.tv/2009/07/24/Michael_Novak ... Capitalism - Michael Novak: The Ethics of Capitalism
http://fora.tv/2007/07/03/Ethics_in_the ... ngineering - The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering with Michael Sandel and William Haseltine
http://fora.tv/2008/07/17/The_Case_Agai ... ael_Sandel - The Case Against Perfection: Michael Sandel
http://fora.tv/2008/07/04/Michael_Sande ... Reasoninga - Michael Sandel on Justice: A Journey in Moral Reasoning
http://fora.tv/2006/09/10/Former_Presid ... ad_Khatami - Former President of Iran Mohammad Khatami
http://fora.tv/2007/04/24/Why_Can_t_We_Be_Good - Jacob Needleman discusses Why Can't We Be Good?
http://fora.tv/2009/02/03/IQ2_Debate_Sh ... Legalized_ - Debate: Should Euthanasia Be Legalized?
http://fora.tv/2008/01/24/Genocide_to_A ... _Turn_Evil - Genocide to Abu Ghraib: How Good People Turn Evil *CAUTION CONTAINS GRAPHIC PHOTO'S*
Torture:
http://fora.tv/2009/06/02/Torture_and_D ... y_What_Now - Darius Rejali on his book Torture and Democracy
http://fora.tv/2009/07/01/The_Dark_Side_Jane_Mayer - Jane Mayer takes a closer look at the ways she says Bush administration policies chipped away our nation's core principles, and addresses whether the Obama administration is on the same path or undoing the damage. She addresses constitutional gray areas -- torture, wire-tapping, presidential power and Guantanamo detainees.
http://fora.tv/2006/11/02/Trevor_Paglen_A__C__Thompson - on extraordinary rendition and secret CIA flights
http://fora.tv/2009/05/27/Levin_Enters_ ... _at_Cheney - Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee Carl Levin attacks former Vice President Dick Cheney's remarks over detainee policies
http://fora.tv/2006/06/16/Kristian_Williams - kristian williams talks about his book covering police use of torture within the USA
http://fora.tv/2008/08/24/Philippe_Sand ... Guantanamo - Philippe Sands on Torture, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo
http://fora.tv/2008/03/12/Life_at_Guant ... _Detainees - Life at Guantanamo Bay: Stories of the 774 Detainees
Language
http://fora.tv/2009/03/20/Daniel_Everet ... _Knowledge - Daniel Everett: Endangered Languages and Lost Knowledge
George Lakoff
http://fora.tv/2007/11/07/Deceiving_Ima ... nipulation - George P. Lakoff, Nicholas Lemann, Frank Luntz, Andras Szanto, Drew Westen on The Science of Manipulation
http://fora.tv/2006/07/17/George_Lakoff_Whose_Freedom - George Lakoff: Whose Freedom?
http://fora.tv/2009/08/03/Politics_of_L ... rge_Lakoff - Politics of Language: George Lakoff
http://fora.tv/2008/06/20/George_Lakoff ... tical_Mind - George Lakoff on The Political Mind
Propaganda
http://fora.tv/2007/11/07/Propaganda_Th ... Didnt_Know - Konstanty Gebert, Masha Gessen, Jack Miles, Orville Schell , George Soros, Andras Szanto on Propaganda Then and Now: What Orwell Did and Didn't Know
The Mind/Brain
http://fora.tv/2006/11/04/Naked_Brain - Dr. Richard M. Restak on his book Naked Brain
http://fora.tv/2008/02/08/Intelligence_ ... nconscious - Gerd Gigerenzer on Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
http://fora.tv/2009/08/11/Matt_Walker_S ... ping_Brain - Matt Walker: Secrets of the Sleeping Brain
http://fora.tv/2007/10/28/Battle_of_Ide ... e_Me_Do_It - Pierre Magistretti, David Perks, Jeffrey Rosen, Raymond Tallis, Steve Yearley on Battle of Ideas: My Brain Made Me Do It
http://fora.tv/2009/07/14/Elizabeth_Lof ... ith_Memory - Elizabeth Loftus: What's the Matter with Memory?
http://fora.tv/2008/03/04/Dan_Ariely_Pr ... Irrational - Dan Ariely on his book Predictably Irrational
http://fora.tv/2009/07/04/Antonio_Damas ... th_Feeling - Antonio Damasio, noted researcher and professor of neuroscience at USC, talks with The New York Times' David Brooks about emotions and the science of being human. He describes the difference between emotions and feelings, and explains why emotions are one of humanity's most important survival mechanisms.
http://fora.tv/2004/02/03/Noam_Chomsky - Noam Chomsky
Media
http://fora.tv/2009/08/04/Debate_The_Me ... _the_Truth - Debate, The Media Can Not Be Trusted to Tell the Truth
http://fora.tv/2009/07/16/Censoring_You ... e_and_Hear - Debate - Censoring You: The Limits of What You See and Hear
Intelligence and Espianage:
CIA
http://fora.tv/2003/09/16/Herbert_E__Me ... telligence - Herbert E. Meyer former special assistant to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency and as vice chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council - An Offensive Strategy for U.S. Intelligence
http://fora.tv/2004/10/18/Admiral_Stansfield_Turner - Admiral Stansfield Turner, former Director of the CIA, discusses the changing role of the CIA in combating terrorism
http://fora.tv/2009/01/14/Uncommon_Know ... es_Woolsey - Woolsey served as director of the CIA and delegate-at-large to the US-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks
http://fora.tv/2007/12/04/Intelligence_Community - Tyler Drumheller is the former chief of the CIA covert operations in Europe, . Bob Kerrey became an expert in U.S. intelligence, serving for eight years on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence speaking on The Intelligence Community
http://fora.tv/2008/06/05/Tim_Weiner_Di ... of_the_CIA - Tim Weiner Discusses the History of the CIA
http://fora.tv/2007/09/18/CIA_Fact_and_Fiction - The CIA: Fact and Fiction?
http://fora.tv/2008/10/21/Amy_Zegart_Th ... ins_of_911 - Amy Zegart: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11
MI5/6
http://fora.tv/2008/07/09/Stella_Riming ... _Bond_Fame - Dame Stella Rimington, was the head of the famous British Secret Service MI5, and first female intelligence head.
http://fora.tv/2009/03/27/Stella_Riming ... eing_A_Spy - Stella Rimington on Being A Spy
Canadian
The Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) held its annual conference from October 26th to 28th in Ottawa.
http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp= ... clipID=394 - Several reporters who report on the intelligence industry talk about canadian/us security relations.
http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp= ... clipID=393 - round table with said journalists.
http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp= ... clipID=392 - discussion of comparative national security law between Can, US, UK and Aus.
http://fora.tv/2006/04/13/Overthrow_Ame ... ime_Change - Stephen Kinzer's new book "Overthrow", he shows that "regime change did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S. foreign policy for more than one hundred years.
Bush and Admin:
http://fora.tv/2008/01/19/Justin_Frank_ ... ident_Bush - Justin Frank returns to talk further about Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President.
http://fora.tv/2007/10/02/Dead_Certain_ ... Presidency - Robert Draper, who had unprecedented access to the White House. He will discuss Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush
http://fora.tv/2006/10/29/Uncommon_Know ... n_John_Yoo - Where should we draw the line between civil liberties and national security in the "war on terror"? with Richard Epstein and John Yoo.
http://fora.tv/2009/05/03/Condoleezza_R ... ce_and_War - Condoleezza Rice: Perspectives on Peace and War
America:
http://fora.tv/2008/04/21/Uncommon_Know ... _Kissinger - Henry Kissinger on various issues
http://fora.tv/2008/03/28/Amar_Bakshi_o ... ullprogram - Amar Bakshi on How the World's Youth See America
http://fora.tv/2009/06/25/Anti-American ... _Ignorance - Anti-Americanism vs. American Ignorance
http://fora.tv/2009/02/13/Dmitry_Orlov_ ... _Practices - With vintage Russian black humor, Dmitry Orlov describes the social collapse he witnessed in Russia in the 1990s and spells out its practical lessons for the American social collapse he sees as inevitable.
http://fora.tv/2008/07/22/Cold_War_Lega ... y_Dilemmas - Melvyn Leffler discusses Cold War Legacies and Contemporary Dilemmas
http://fora.tv/2009/07/14/Harry_Jaffa_A ... of_Freedom - Jaffa discusses book A New Birth of Freedom.
http://fora.tv/2009/07/15/A_Conversatio ... am_Clinton - A conversation with Hilary Clinton
http://fora.tv/2009/08/25/Why_America_W ... _Democracy - Why America Wants to Promote Liberty and Democracy
War
Iraq War
http://fora.tv/2007/11/17/American_Exce ... _on_Terror - American Exceptionalism and the War on Terror
http://fora.tv/2008/06/11/Richard_Engel ... rs_in_Iraq - Richard Engel's War Journal: Five Years in Iraq
http://fora.tv/2008/07/05/The_War_on_Te ... erspective - The War on Terror from a Foreign Perspective
http://fora.tv/2008/08/23/Gerry_Simpson ... _and_Crime - debate on the tensions in war crime trials. Individual responsibility vs guilt.
Afghanistan/Pakistan
http://fora.tv/2009/04/13/Ahmed_Rashid_ ... into_Chaos - Descent into Chaos US Policy and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia with distinguished speaker Ahmed Rashid.
http://fora.tv/2009/04/01/Resurgence_of ... _Hamid_Mir - Resurgence of the Taliban in Pakistan: Hamid Mir
http://fora.tv/2009/02/01/Border_Patrol ... fghanistan - Border Patrol: Pakistan and Afghanistan
http://fora.tv/2009/06/19/An_Australian ... into_Jihad - An Australian Woman's Extraordinary Journey into Jihad
http://fora.tv/2008/04/09/Ambassador_Wi ... fghanistan - Ambassador to Afghanistan William Wood addresses these key issues, current US-Afghanistan relations, and the role the US and world can play in shaping Afghanistan's future
http://fora.tv/2008/09/15/James_Dobbins ... he_Taliban - Ambassador James Dobbins, the Bush administration's first Special Envoy for Afghanistan, gives his first-hand impressions of the quest for a stabilized Afghanistan
http://fora.tv/2009/03/23/Afghanistan_The_New_Iraq - Is Afghanistan the new Iraq?
http://fora.tv/2008/04/29/Uncommon_Know ... ip_Bobbitt Professor Philip Bobbitt describes the "wars for the 21st century" as wars against terror -- against modern market-state terrorism, against the distribution and assimilation of weapons of mass destruction, and against the forces that create human catastrophes, such as genocide and ethnic cleansing.
http://fora.tv/2009/08/04/General_Antho ... the_Charge - Anthony Zinni - Anthony Charles Zinni is a retired general in the United States Marine Corps and a former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command on the Middle east
Economics
http://fora.tv/2008/10/16/Naomi_Klein_D ... Capitalism - Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism
http://fora.tv/2008/10/20/Naomi_Klein_a ... omic_Power - Naomi Klein and Joseph Stiglitz on Economic Power
Mythbusters
http://fora.tv/2009/08/06/MythBusters_Just_the_Facts - MythBusters: Just the Facts
http://fora.tv/2009/05/30/MythBuster_Ad ... l_Failures - MythBuster Adam Savage's Colossal Failures
http://fora.tv/2008/12/12/MythBusters_C ... ullprogram - MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
Philosophy
http://fora.tv/2009/08/24/Hunter_Rawlin ... tern_Canon - Two Strands of Liberty in the Western Canon
Etc.
http://fora.tv/2008/07/09/Dangerous_Gam ... of_History - Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History
http://fora.tv/2006/10/08/Steven_Smith - Steven Smith on Leo Strauss
http://fora.tv/2006/10/14/Jane_Poynter_ ... _Biosphere - Jane Poynter: Inside the Biosphere
http://fora.tv/2009/05/20/Censored_2009 ... of_2007-08 - Censored 2009: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007-08
http://fora.tv/2008/12/12/Mike_Rowe_on_ ... Castration - Mike Rowe on Discovery, Realization and Lamb Castration
http://fora.tv/2009/07/30/Marijuana_Economics - Marijuana Economics
http://fora.tv/2009/09/09/CONNECTIONS_E ... zing_Drugs - Ethan Nadelmann: True Obstacles to Drug Law Reform
http://fora.tv/2009/08/04/Hos_Hookers_C ... _Rent_Boys - various authors on there contributions to a book of fiction by sex industry workers rather funny i thought.
http://fora.tv/2009/04/07/Parasites_Amo ... m_McKerrow - Parasites Among Us: Jim McKerrow
http://fora.tv/2009/09/17/Filmmaker_Mic ... Love_Story - Michael Moore on his movie Capitalism
http://fora.tv/2009/02/23/Uncommon_Know ... nin_Scalia - Cheif Justice Scalia
http://fora.tv/2008/12/12/Archeologist_ ... s_of_Egypt - Archeologist Zahi Hawass Unlocks the Secrets of Egypt
http://fora.tv/2007/09/27/Implementing_Science_Fiction - Implimenting Science Fiction
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