Tag: Videos

  • PBS and NPR Stop Using Twitter

    As widely reported, PBS and NPR have stopped using Twitter. 

    According to the National Public Radio or NPR website: “NPR is an independent, nonprofit media organization that was founded on a mission to create a more informed public.”

    According to the Public Broadcasting Service or PBS website: “PBS is a membership organization that, in partnership with its member stations, serves the American public with programming and services of the highest quality, using media to educate, inspire, entertain and express a diversity of perspectives.”

    To access multi-media content put out by NPR, visit their website here. To take a look at PBS programming, visit their website here or their Youtube channel here.

  • Exxon's Climate Change Predictions and Climate Change Denial

    This piece by Grist is a useful short introduction to the oft-quoted fact that oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil historically funded some of the most accurate climate change predictions long before most of the world was talking about climate change. And yet, they went on to fund and spread climate change denial in the public domain for decades, knowing full well that said climate change denial was not backed even by their own research.

    Watch the video version of the piece on Youtube here. Access the video and transcript on the Grist website here.

  • Investigating the Intellectual Status Quo Without Conspiracy Theories

    The Institute of Art and Ideas or IAI is a platform that, according to their website, was “founded in 2008 with the aim of rescuing philosophy from technical debates about the meaning of words and returning it to big ideas and putting them at the centre of culture. Not in aid of a more refined cultural life, but as an urgent call to rethink where we are.”

    On an internet where traditional publishing standards and processes have broken down to a large degree, IAI is a rare platform that tries to push the boundaries of knowledge without passing off pseudoscience as scepticism or heterodox thinking. In their own words, “the IAI seeks to challenge the notion that our present accepted wisdom is the truth. It aims to uncover the flaws and limitations in our current thinking in search of alternative and better ways to hold the world.”

    Read more about their vision here. Visit their website here. Subscribe to their video player here.

  • The Problem with Effective Altruism

    This video essay/tutorial by Youtuber and artist Abigail Thorn for her channel PhilosophyTube is a good introduction to effective altruism and the main problems with it.

    Watch the complete video here.