112. Richard Dawkins (biologist) – Red in Tooth and Claw
Think Again - a Big Think Podcast
Big Think / Panoply
4.6 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like? |
| 0:05.0 | Not much to it, is there? |
| 0:06.0 | Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich. |
| 0:11.0 | Mmm, that is good. |
| 0:13.0 | Now that's what Asani should sound like. |
| 0:16.0 | Go all crisp in with walkers. |
| 0:18.0 | Delicious. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey there, I'm Jason Gats and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast. |
| 0:25.6 | Started in 2008, Big Think is a kind of online think tank of big ideas from some of the most creative thinkers on the planet. |
| 0:36.6 | On the Think Again podcast, we revisit these ideas in new and unpredictable ways. |
| 0:41.4 | Our producers surprise me and my guests with short interview clips from Big Things |
| 0:45.1 | Archives, ideas that we didn't necessarily come here expecting to discuss. |
| 0:49.6 | I am very, very, very happy to be here today with internationally best-selling author, |
| 0:53.5 | speaker, and passionate advocate for reason and science as against superstition, Richard Dawkins. |
| 1:00.0 | From 1995 to 2008, Richard Dawkins was the Charles Simony Professor of the Public Understanding |
| 1:06.0 | of Science at Oxford University. |
| 1:08.0 | Among his many books are The Selfish Gene, the God Delusion, |
| 1:11.8 | and his two-part autobiography, an appetite for wonder, |
| 1:14.7 | and a brief candle in the dark. |
| 1:16.5 | His latest, which we'll be talking about today, |
| 1:18.7 | is a collection of essays, stories, and speeches |
| 1:21.6 | called Science in the Soul, spanning many decades |
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