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  • Richard Dawkins in Conversation with Patrick House | Richard Dawkins’ Final Tour in Warwick

    Richard Dawkins in Conversation with Patrick House | Richard Dawkins’ Final Tour in Warwick
    Apr 3 2025
    In this episode of The Poetry of Reality, Richard Dawkins engages with neuroscientist and author Patrick House in a wide-ranging conversation covering the differences between physics and biology, the role of elegance in science, and surprising insights into camouflage, animal behavior, and artificial selection. They also explore topics like the extended phenotype, parasites and parasitic ideas followed by an audience Q&A session. This episode was filmed at the Warwick Arts Centre, on the 23rd of Oct 2024, as part of Richard Dawkins' tour. ​Patrick House is a neuroscientist and writer whose work explores the complexities of the human brain, particularly focusing on consciousness and the influence of mind-controlling parasites. He earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Stanford University and currently serves as the writer-in-residence at Stanford's Center for the Explanation of Consciousness.
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    1 h et 24 min
  • Space meets Earth, Porco and Dawkins in Glasgow

    Space meets Earth, Porco and Dawkins in Glasgow
    Mar 27 2025
    In this episode of The Poetry of Reality, Richard Dawkins engages in an insightful conversation with Carolyn Porco about gene immortality, ancestral traits, the extended phenotype, extraterrestrial life, criticisms of religion and atheism, followed by audience questions. This episode was filmed at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on the Oct 31st 2024, as part of Richard Dawkins' tour. Carolyn Porco is a renowned planetary scientist and science communicator best known for leading the imaging science team on NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn, where she played a pivotal role in major discoveries such as the geysers on Enceladus and the potential for extraterrestrial habitability.
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    1 h et 22 min
  • Is There More Wonder In Genes Than In Gods? - A Conversation with Alex O' Connor

    Is There More Wonder In Genes Than In Gods? - A Conversation with Alex O' Connor
    Mar 6 2025
    As part of his 2024 tour, Richard Dawkins engaged in an insightful conversation with Alex O'Connor at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles on September 28th. They discuss Dawkins' latest book; The Genetic Book of the Dead, religion, evolution, and concludes with a Q&A session. Alex O’Connor is a YouTuber, writer, and public speaker, best known as the host of the Within Reason podcast, with over one million subscribers on YouTube. He has appeared on television programs such as Piers Morgan Uncensored, BBC Sunday Morning Live, and Channel 4 News. O’Connor has debated and discussed topics including the philosophy of religion, free speech, monarchy abolitionism, and skepticism with notable figures such as Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Slavoj Žižek.
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    1 h et 23 min
  • What Evolution Really Tells Us About Life | A Conversation with Steven Pinker

    What Evolution Really Tells Us About Life | A Conversation with Steven Pinker
    Feb 27 2025

    In this episode of The Poetry of Reality, Richard Dawkins engages in an insightful conversation with Steven Pinker about evolution, his motivation for writing The Blind Watchmaker, and a breakdown of his latest book, The Genetic Book of the Dead Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. This was filmed in Boston, Massachusetts, as part of Richard Dawkins' tour.
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    1 h et 29 min
  • Atheism is growing in America but.....| Richard Dawkins Talks to Coleman Hughes

    Atheism is growing in America but.....| Richard Dawkins Talks to Coleman Hughes
    Feb 9 2025
    1 h et 22 min
  • Is Elon Musk Our Only Hope? | Richard Dawkins in Conversation with Andrew Gold

    Is Elon Musk Our Only Hope? | Richard Dawkins in Conversation with Andrew Gold
    Jan 19 2025

    In this episode of The Poetry of Reality, Richard Dawkins engages in an insightful conversation with Andrew Gold, host of the Heretics podcast. This was filmed at Ulster Hall in Belfast, United Kingdom, on the 14th of November 2024, as part of Richard Dawkins' Tour.
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    1 h et 22 min
  • Richard Dawkins & Kmele Foster Discuss Evolution, Religion, and Cultural Hegemony

    Richard Dawkins & Kmele Foster Discuss Evolution, Religion, and Cultural Hegemony
    Dec 29 2024

    In this episode of The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins, Richard engages in a conversation with Kmele Foster about evolution, the miracle of the human brain, the meaning provided by religion, and today’s cultural hegemony that stands against truth—even within universities. This episode was filmed at Prudential Hall in Newark, NJ, on September 13th, 2024, as part of Richard Dawkins’ final tour.
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    1 h et 37 min
  • Richard Dawkins in Conversation with Chris Williamson | Richard Dawkins’ Final Tour in Austin

    Richard Dawkins in Conversation with Chris Williamson | Richard Dawkins’ Final Tour in Austin
    Dec 24 2024

    In this episode of The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins, Richard engages in a conversation with Chris Williamson various topics, including his recent comment on being a cultural Christian, evolution and genetic adaptation, and, of course, his latest book release, The Genetic Book of the Dead. This episode was filmed at the ACL Moody Theatre in Austin, Texas, on September 7, 2024, as part of Richard Dawkins’ final tour.
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    1 h et 23 min