The Red Notebook » pinker http://blog.friendsofdarwin.com The Friends of Charles Darwin blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:41:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dawkins and Pinker uncut http://blog.friendsofdarwin.com/2009/06/20090618/ http://blog.friendsofdarwin.com/2009/06/20090618/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:11:29 +0000 Richard Carter FCD http://blog.friendsofdarwin.com/?p=2457 One of the more useful developments in podcasting in recent years has been the publication of full, unexpurgated versions of interviews as supplements to the podcasts in which they originally appeared in edited format. This gives people who were interested in the edited interview the opportunity to delver deeper into the subject.

I am glad to note that this very useful development is starting to be adopted with video interviews. Richard Dawkins’s official website recently published on YouTube full versions of interviews Dawkins conducted as part of his recent documentary series, The Genius of Charles Darwin. I have to say, I didn’t particularly enjoy the series, which was rather light on Darwin, and rather heavy on God-botherer bashing, but I found the following unedited interview with Steve Pinker very entertaining (despite my general disdain for evolutionary psychology):

Richard Dawkins scared of scorpions: who’d have thought it?

The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews can be purchased from the official Dawkins website.

[Hat-tip to Nada Cabani for the link.]

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