Conversations about Science

with Jonah Lehrer, Edward O. Wilson, Lisa Randall and Eric Kandel
in Science & Health
on Thursday, July 12, 2012 * * * * *

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Conversations about Science with Edward O. Wilson, Eric Kandel, Lisa Randall, & Jonah Lehrer

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    1. finalfantasytown  08/06/2012 10:50 PM Report

      Charlie, we need 'marxthegreat2' urgently. he comes back

    2. SharkswithfrikingLazers  07/31/2012 01:51 AM Report

      So what exactly did Mr. Liar-Liar-Pants-On-Fire create?

      The idea that creativity can be a rush of vomit?

      That he could actually understand Bob Dylan?

    3. SharkswithfrikingLazers  07/31/2012 01:38 AM Report

      Charlie, Charlie, Charlie,

      Where are the tar and feathers when we need them?

      At least we can laugh:

      "Jonah Lehrer's resignation letter from the New Yorker contains passages from Ruth Shalit's resignation letter from The New Republic."

      http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/us-news-blog/2012/jul/30/jonah-lehrer-quits-new-yorker?newsfeed=true

    4. markhas2  07/18/2012 03:21 PM Report

      Charlie the next time you have that Nazi Dumkoff, Paul Ryan on spewing his hateful aynrandian crap give him a copy of Wilson's book.

    5. finalfantasytown  07/18/2012 01:20 AM Report

      Thinking on birds(their weight, body, living place, living style) and entertainment including science, and imagine what is happening when birds have hands(technology and money) to shape the world. When understanding this, driving to the direction forward for final fantasy. Panda's fate was unveiled on final decision from last generation. They were pet having intelligence living with last generation.

      My heart is broken.

      It doesn't matter who use facebook and who use twitter at beginning. But in terms of language, it is much more profitable and efficient to show the sign of individual origins when Americans tweet on facebook.

      I need to redraw the bird in the national emblem and replace it piece by piece. Do you like bee-eater? Here is the introduction of my familyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee-eater .

    6. Gelles  07/17/2012 06:26 AM Report

      Tonight's show with the President and First Lady, followed by Al Hunt, is a terrible disappointment -- President's Bush and Obama did allow some government investment and tax relief to ward off another Great Depression. The also failed to promote the supply and demand that technology wants to deliver if our goal is full employment not the gibberish and corruption embodied in talk about debt and taxes imposed on work that would zero them out if it were undertaken.

    7. Gelles  07/17/2012 06:08 AM Report

      One of my favorite habits of thought (for times when complexity overwhelms further comfortable inquiry) is to admit the EXISTENCE of everything there is beyond and untouched by the human race: remove us all from the scene and things would be almost the same as they are. In fact, humans came late to the party and will leave early.

      We have done much and failed to do more.

      But the story of the universe is immense compared to the part about people.

      After imagining this, returning to unfinished learning and work is easier.

    8. blank  07/15/2012 07:37 AM Report

      i'm going to sleep

    9. blank  07/15/2012 07:37 AM Report

      okay last message the problem you get stuck on the same step for eternity you keep talking about the same thing to get through it it gets so old you just have to throw it in the trash and start new just total new everything subject matter method thoughts everything out the window concept place world i deleted everything nothing exists i'll let the days go by and disappear life goes on

    10. blank  07/15/2012 06:11 AM Report

      ok i'm going to go back to watching this show on tv in order to limit posting messages

    11. blank  07/15/2012 03:46 AM Report

      these are symptoms of lyme disease maybe you should go get tested or if you do find a tick use tweezers to pull it out as close to the skin as possible and then put it in a plastic bag and take it or send it off to get tested

      you have to catch it right away to treat it

      "My symptoms included: low energy, poor stamina, sore throat, unexplained menstrual irregularity, upset stomach, abdominal pain, chest pain, rib soreness, shortness of breath, cough, heart palpitations, pulse skips, heart murmur, joint pain, joint swelling, stiffness of the joints all over my body, muscle pain and cramping, twitching of the face or other muscles, neck pinches and cracks, neck stiffness, neck pain, tingling, numbness, burning or stabbing sensations, shooting pains, skin hypersensitivity, facial paralysis, (Bell's palsy), double, blurry, increased floaters, light sensitivity, buzzing, ringing, ear pain, sound sensitivity, increased motion sickness, vertigo, major facial flushing and bizarre skin rashes, poor balance, lightheadedness, wooziness, panic attacks, anxiety, tremors, confusion, difficulty in thinking, difficulty with concentration, forgetfulness, poor short term memory, poor attention, disorientation, getting lost, going to wrong places, difficulty with speech or writing, mood swings, irritability, depression, disturbed sleep, too much sleep, too little sleep, the overwhelming need to sleep for 4 hours every afternoon, and a complete intolerance to alcohol. In my case, I dragged myself though 4 years of college missing many classes and taking it slow. It was up and down for a long time and I was never quite "right.""

      my mom knows people confined to wheelchairs from incurable or long term lyme disease

    12. blank  07/15/2012 02:33 AM Report

      it's all my own fault i drive myself into the ground don't pay attention i just couldn't live with myself if i thought i actually convinced somebody to start mountain biking telling them they would get better and then they caught lyme disease that progressed to bad stages and went crazy like me so there it goes BUT there's probably a way around it all but i can't think about it anymore i'm overwhelmed

      when i get to where i'm trying to go and i find some miraculous way i'll let people know in a more effective way especially to the people it would directly apply to

    13. blank  07/15/2012 02:23 AM Report

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLGfhRuDSio&feature=related

      you don't want to catch lyme disease though i was reading about it today i don't think it exists above about 3000 feet

      since i've been promoting high risk activities for it i have to include this disclaimer (then i'm going to stop typing messages and get focused)

      http://www.ext.colostate.edu/PUBS/INSECT/05593.html

      http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/197825/28/Lyme-Disease-Risks-May-Be-Higher-This-Year

      http://dcist.com/2009/04/lyme_disease_cases_in_dc_region_way.php

      http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/07/AR2009040703716.html

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2121466/Lyme-disease-UK-cases-soar-staycationers-told-bewar e-ticks.html

      lyme disease can get pretty severe from what i've heard and read about

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononucleosis

      that last link relates to the recent brain series MS show (some people who had lyme disease were mistakenly diagnosed with mononucleosis and ms)

      (also don't pay attention to what i write on here i literally have a smashed joint in my jaw and my ears and my head it's driving me crazy i have to focus and get through this it's very complex the way it affects EVERYTHING i'm trying to get set up so i can rehabilitate and also i'm going to study how they do knee rehabilitation and try to apply and switch that over i've lost so many years of my life to this sometimes and the more it goes on the worse it gets and the more it seems impossible and irreversible i just lose it or most of the time i have to get focused on and out of this situation this is too much somehow i get mentally dragged into typing messages on here at the wrong times when i shouldn't so sorry it doesn't matter i'm sort of just delirious at times i'm suffering from all consuming schizophrenia too where i feel like celebrities are sending secret messages to me telling me they're going to help me so like getting past that can help get me focused on the real issue of what's actually going on so that i can enjoy live in and participate in life again and THINK that would be a start it's hard to come to terms with the concept that you've just been crazy for all these years)

      okay no more writing to the public i'm out (:

      like everything is cool it's not a problem

    14. blank  07/14/2012 05:57 PM Report

      oh my god music is a real killer (anything other than passing by background music) NEVER again i have to set it in stone

      just write this off to i f*ck/d myself up in a thousand different ways cascading effect

      in some other life this one is trashed

      i'm gone i'm out

      autism retardation brain damage that results in death whatver you want to call it that's what i suffer from

      i just tried to get attention to try to get help when i saw it was happening that was 7 years ago

      it's over now it was like a suicidal gamble probably not the best path to go down it was out of my control i don't know what i'm doing i have an idea in my head

      probably should have stuck with reality but it's out of control (music is the #1 retardation killer)

      physical pain is trivial in comparison

      you have to stick to school and health and biking and stuff like thatnothingis worth it nothing at all

      think clearly make the right decisions stay calm relaxed healthy you will lose it all that's life over it's death literally (it's way beyond being sick with a cold or a broken arm you will literally die - like parts ofyour consciousness your perceptions your sensations just spiral out to death)

      beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep red line flat line death

      (i'm not committing suicide technically literally just forget it)

      i just have to like snap out of it all and just i don't know maybe in like 40 years things will be better if i'm still alive then live for 5 years then die (something like that)

      nobody can make it better this like my lack of being able to achieve to think about and accomplish what i need to do just everything and it's too late now it's losing control and death (and other people go through this too it's not as uncommon as you think it can happen to you (especially ifyou're addicted to something like biking to get by) i think if you keep biking no matter what that's probably the best chance of being okay but it's just everything school and i don't know how to explain it i don't have the answers

      i was homeless out on the street when i was 19 just the effects of it all hadn't caught up to me yet i didn't take mental illness seriously as a real problem but when it causes you to walk out in the desert it turns real

      you think it makes sense at the time it's no different then suddenly looking at yourself at not understanding how you went from normal to 400 lbs it's completely out of control you have to stay on track you don't see it coming or if you do you can't control it nobody believes it

      catch problems as early as possible and change course there is no time to do it later

    15. YNHow  07/14/2012 10:00 AM Report

      reminds me of an interview I saw somewhere where they talked about newly discovered Higgs particules ...

      Isnt this show great?...from social sciences to arts in cognition to physics to jazz pianist.

      yes noey, you are indeed an artist.

      cheers!

    16. blank  07/14/2012 08:09 AM Report

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDD0Efu-H4o&feature=related

      anyway if i get this bike i'll be set two race bikes one will always be working

    17. blank  07/14/2012 07:45 AM Report

      http://latino.foxnews.com/slideshow/latino/entertainment/2011/05/04/shakira-shows-love-boyfriend-piqu e/#slide=1

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAu51I1wYcU&feature=youtu.be

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18833812

      this has been going on for 6 years and she failed the lie detector test about whether she would ever show up i'm not really sure what the purpose or the point is

      but i'm eating this chinese black rice bread it's pretty good

      http://www.thegamesandbeyond.com/Cycling_Track/world-winning-wheels

      i was going to send a message about wearing sunscreen everyday but i couldn't figure out how and then i figured it was basic

      i'm trying to get a back up bike right now and get set up (this is on me i have to change everything)

      i think this is really cool and super motivation

      i was doing a search for rogue elements trying to figure out what rogue meant since the dictionary definition didn't match what i thought i thought it was the element that went off on it's own

      and i found this song and i was bumping it while looking at the article about the world winning wheels and got all hyped and was going to post it but then i decided it's too cheesy plus music is draining not good for health when i'm biking i go way down and stop listening to music it's like the real things it's not fake

      but i'll put it here kind of funny

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=150c2-RMXS0&feature=related

    18. SharkswithfrikingLazers  07/14/2012 01:50 AM Report

      So of the four was the non-scientist the easiest to understand and most captivating?

    19. finalfantasytown  07/14/2012 01:43 AM Report

      downward is always forwards. falling angel for evolution

    20. noey  07/13/2012 05:10 PM Report

      Thank you for arranging today's guests in a way to inspire creativity in physics. You are an artist.