From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, why has superstition become so pervasive in an age of science? Robert Park, the University of Maryland physics professor and the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, asks why people persist in superstitious convictions long after science has shown them to be ill-founded. He takes on supernatural beliefs from religion and the afterlife to New Age spiritualism and faith-based medical claims. He examines recent controversies and concludes that science is the only way we have of understanding the world. In this lecture based on his new book, Park discusses parapsychology, homeopathy, and acupuncture; he questions the existence of souls, the foundations of intelligent design, and the power of prayer; he asks for evidence of reincarnation and astral projections; and he challenges the idea of heaven. Throughout, he demonstrates how people’s blind faith, and their confidence in suspect phenomena and remedies, are manipulated for political ends. Park shows that science prevails when people stop fooling themselves.
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Everything written is so final.. sound is free because it truely belongs to the moment. That's what I love about music, which is in the children's laughters and in the breathe one holds when magic happens. As soon as the thinking cap goes, on all dissipates.
When I'm in the middle of a great shoot and I know the results are already there, I foget to breath sometimes for too long, like a swimmer going too deep in the ocean. It must be the same with Jazz improvisation.
poetry begins with fooling yourself. jazz might be the self-exploration of fools fooling around. science, like pop, is the following of too many rules. the best scientists are able to work within and without science. the best musicians play in and out of the chord. why push one way when there are more ways?
Yes a stimulating debate. Science and logic should be the religion of our age but the human desire for emotional affirmation from a Master figure(s) leads towards the mystical religious response and away from the logical.
