www.ted.com Why do people see the Virgin Mary on cheese sandwiches or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video, images and music, professional skeptic Michael Shermer explores these and other phenomena, including UFOs and alien sighti...
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Duración: 14.2 Calificación: 4.835203
A couple of times a year, in between his celebfest of stars, Larry King hosts the UFOlogists who regale the talk show king with an endless parade of blurry photographs, grainy videos, and breathless tales of government coverups and conspiracies. This...
Autor: MichaelShermer Reproduciones 25722
Duración: 59.97 Calificación: 4.5876923
The Bible Code claims that hidden in the first five books of the Bible in its original Hebrew text are hidden messages in code that made predictions thousands of years ago about current events, such as the assassination of JFK and the end of the worl...
Autor: MichaelShermer Reproduciones 200227
Duración: 6.78 Calificación: 4.5062146
Michael Shermer discusses his book "Mind of the Market" as part of the Authors@Google series. How did we evolve from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumer-traders? Why are people so irrational when it comes to money and business? Bestselling au...
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Duración: 53.4 Calificación: 4.814371
In a scenario set up to debunk astrology, Jeffrey Armstrong completely outshines Michael Shermer in a way that any scientist should say is "statistically interesting." The SCENARIO: Jeffrey reads NINE charts in about TWENTY minutes. Most charts are u...
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The first video from RDF TV! With a sea of information coming at us from all directions, how do we sift out the misinformation and bogus claims, and get to the truth? Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine lays out a "Baloney Detection Kit," ten questio...
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Duración: 14.68 Calificación: 4.843724
Michael Shermer travels to Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada, to strap on the "God Helmet" in neuroscientist Michael Persinger's lab that duplicates out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, alien abductions, and other paranormal phenom...
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Duración: 6.2 Calificación: 4.557644
Can the polygraph machine really scientifically measure if someone is lying, or are all those graphs and numbers just pseudoscience in the service of law enforcement? Can we tell if someone is lying to us by their body language or facial expressions?...
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Duración: 8.38 Calificación: 4.914089
One of the oldest forms of so-called alternative or complementary medicine is the ancient Chinese art of acupuncture, now claimed by many to be a science. Michael Shermer goes in search of what is behind acupuncture through interviews and getting him...
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Duración: 7.55 Calificación: 4.4982576
Genesis, Version 2.0. Text by Michael Shermer, editor of "Sceptic Magazine" and author of "Why Darwin Matters": "To convey the logical absurdity of trying to squeeze the round peg of science into the square hole of religion, I penned the following sc...
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The art of the con is as old as civilization, employing the skills of deception, misdirection, and the psychology of human greed and the desire to get something for nothing. In this episode Shermer employs a professional con artist to teach him the f...
Autor: MichaelShermer Reproduciones 79120
Duración: 6.78 Calificación: 4.8951964
www.ted.com Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into tro...
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Duración: 19.53 Calificación: 4.8565187
Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine and monthly columnist for Scientific American, tries his hand at firewalking barefoot across 1000-degree red hot coals and doesn't get burned. Dr. Shermer provides a scientific explanation for the myster...
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Michael Shermer, the founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine, argues Why Darwin Matters: Evolution, Intelligent Design and the Battle for Science and Religion in this talk presented by the Division of Biological Sciences and the Helen Edison Lecture S...
Autor: UCtelevision Reproduciones 20137
Duración: 58.63 Calificación: 4.9757085
The art of the con is as old as civilization, employing the skills of deception, misdirection, and the psychology of human greed and the desire to get something for nothing. In this episode Shermer employs a professional con artist to teach him the f...
Autor: MichaelShermer Reproduciones 93175
Duración: 7.72 Calificación: 4.8817205
Michael Shermer explains how psychic James Van Praagh appears to talk to the dead by using such mentalism tricks as cold reading and hot reading.
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Duración: 4.62 Calificación: 4.608451
Graphology, or handwriting analysis, claims that personality characteristics such as introversion and extraversion can be inferred from the form and structure of letters, words, and sentences (introverts, for example, are said to write in smaller let...
Autor: MichaelShermer Reproduciones 20602
Duración: 6.3 Calificación: 4.780488
Can the polygraph machine really scientifically measure if someone is lying, or are all those graphs and numbers just pseudoscience in the service of law enforcement? Can we tell if someone is lying to us by their body language or facial expressions?...
Autor: MichaelShermer Reproduciones 41484
Duración: 7.73 Calificación: 4.883978
Graphology, or handwriting analysis, claims that personality characteristics such as introversion and extraversion can be inferred from the form and structure of letters, words, and sentences (introverts, for example, are said to write in smaller let...
Autor: MichaelShermer Reproduciones 30699
Duración: 7.18 Calificación: 4.7348485
[This is part 1 of Dr Jacoby's opening statement, refuting the existence of God.] The debate between international Christian speaker Douglas Jacoby and agnostic and skeptic Michael Shermer took place Saturday June 23, the highlight of the 2007 Intern...
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Duración: 7.02 Calificación: 4.233766
The best evidence that UFOs represent spacecraft from other worlds consists of grainy photographs, blurry videos, and anecdotes about things that go bump in the night. In this episode Michael Shermer shows how easy it is to fake UFO photographs, enli...
Autor: MichaelShermer Reproduciones 86152
Duración: 6.13 Calificación: 4.5116277
Ever since the 1970s, spoonbending (and the bending of other cutlery, metal bars, and the like) has been held up as physical evidence for telekinesis, a form of PSI in which thoughts alone can allegedly be employed to alter the physical environment. ...
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Duración: 6.52 Calificación: 4.6474576
Does God Exist? Dr Shermers Opening address a
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