Category: language
Here is another informative, insightful and entertaining talk filled with fascinating data from Dr. Sapolsky, Stanford neurologist and primatologist.
[original FORA.tv upload.]
Other recommended Sapolsky lectures include:
‘Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences’
‘The Neurobiology of Primate Sexuality’: Part 1 [Part 2]
and more excellent lectures can be found here.
Incredibly impressive reading of Dr. Seuss’ toungue twisting poem, Fox In Socks:
Dr. Leary: a brilliant and profound thinker and gifted speaker and communicator. Just listen to this phenomenal 9 minute rant:
If you’re still hungry for more Leary, check out this video about his life including some funny interview footage from his last days:
I found this talk given by Erik Davis at the 2010 Horizons Conference in NYC a very enjoyable and accurate delineation of the psychedelic renaissance landscape:
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In the video, Erik describes James Kent’s Psychedelic Information Theory, which you can learn more about from watching his excellent presentation at the 2010 Psychedelic Science Conference in San Jose:
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“But do they bubble and froth and slobber and cream with joy at language? Do they ever let the tripping of the tips of their tongues against the tops of their teeth transport them to giddy euphoric bliss? Do they ever yoke impossible words together for the sound-sex of it? Do they use language to seduce, charm, excite, please, affirm and tickle those they talk to? Do they?”
Nominee for Best Animated Feature in the 2010 Academy Awards, The Secret of Kells is a new level of psychedelic animation, cinema and visionary art:
What does it mean to be human and alive?
The thousands of different cultures and languages on Earth have compellingly different answers to that question. “We are a wildly imaginative and creative species,” declares Wade Davis, and then proves it with his accounts and photographs of humanity plumbing the soul of culture, of psyche, and of landscape.
A 2 hour presentation by the eminent ethnobotonist, explorer and cultural anthropologist, Wade Davis, with exquisite photography of the dynamic human spirit from diverse cultures of the world.
Watch the program here. ( There is 4 1/2 minute slideshow before the lecture which you can skip.)
Erik Davis has had a lot of very interesting podcasts recently on his show, Expanding Mind. I recently enjoyed listening to the Mark Pesce and RU Sirius interviews as well as the one with Richard Doyle, professor of (science &) Rhetoric at Penn State and Berkely and author of On Beyond Living, Wetwares and soon to be published The Ecodelic Hypothesis: Plants, Rhetoric and the Evolution of The Noösphere.
As time incessantly passes it seems to become more difficult to fathom the immensity of Terence McKenna’s contributions to the human story. I feel to be at an increasing loss of words to speak of the profundity that his perfectly articulated insights have catapulted the entire cradle of future generations into a more perfect actuality.
Slightly abridged Hakim Bey poem from the book, The Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ), with motion graphics, soundtrack and voice by James Koehnline, 2001.
