Some Old New Year Links

Here are some things I meant to put up last term but forgot to:

(1) Sam Harris talks introduces his new book, The Moral Landscape - How Science Can Determine Human values here in the Huffington Post.

(2) An entertaining video clip of John B. Watson, father of behaviourism, scaring small children in the name of science.

(3) An article by Guy Deutscher in the New York Times on whether the language you speak shapes the way you think.

(4) A video clip of a real rat in a real Skinner box.

(5) The Hitchens brothers (Atheist Christopher and Christian Peter) debate whether there can be civilisation without God.