Category: Video+discussion

Can we win the war with Iran?

Professor Jiang Xueqin (江学勤)

11 a.m., March 15, 2026

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we watch and discuss two videos on the war with Iran.

Professor Jiang Predicts: US WILL LOSE Iran War
https://youtu.be/4Ql24Z8SIeE

This 15-minute talk is presented on Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar, a U.S. political news and opinion series created and hosted by Kristal Ball and Saagar Enjeti. Its format includes one left-wing populist anchor (Ball) and one right-wing populist anchor (Enjeti), who provide news and commentary from an independent platform, separate from the mainstream media.

Professor Jiang Xusqin is a Chinese-Canadian educator and writer known for his YouTube channel Predictive History. In a 2024 lecture he predicted that Trump would win the election, that we would go to war with Iran, and that we would lose that war. In this presentation He details why he believes that’s so.

While some media outlets described Jiang’s lecture on Iran in 2024 as prophetic, others criticized the predictions for relying on selective historical analogies, speculative game theory reasoning, and untestable assumptions. He has also been described as promoting Illuminati conspiracy theories through his YouTube channel.

The channel is dedicated to exploring if “psycho-history” of Asimov’s Foundation series is indeed possible.

Predictive History seeks to answer the following three questions:
1. What models, theories, and paradigms help us best understand world history?
2. What does history teach us about our current predicament?
3. How much of the future can be predicted?

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian outlines three conditions to end the war
https://youtu.be/l_j3EW-YIXk

In this 5-minute Al Jazeera broadcast, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian outlines three conditions to end the war; recognition of Tehran’s legitimate rights, payment of reparations and firm international guarantees against future aggression. Shahram Akbarzadeh is director of the Middle East studies forum at Deakin University.

You can pre-watch this 48-minute video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSNE02hwwSM

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Here Come the Humanoids

“Formed a man from the dust of the earth.”

11 a.m., March 8, 2026

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we watch two 15-minute sections of the TV show 60 minutes that were joined with two other sections of 60 Minutes into a single video. 60 Minutes is an American television news magazine since 1968. The New York Times has called it “one of the most esteemed news magazines on American television”.

The first segment, the first 13 minutes of the video, is called Here Come the Humanoids, first aired in January 4, 2026, and shows the status of humanoid robots. Boston Dynamics is developing a humanoid robot for the auto maker Hyundai.

The second segment, from 27 minutes to 40 minutes, entitled Future of Warfare ,first aired on May 18, 2025. It’s an interview with Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of Anduril which makes autonomous weapons.

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https://youtu.be/s1ISnaUQgUE

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Epstein

The Epstein Files Phase 1, Part C: Contact Book Redacted, page 95, released 2025-02-27 by the United States Department of Justice.

11 a.m., March 1, 2026

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we discuss the case of Jeffery Epstein. This is the most disturbing and wide-reaching scandal in recent history.

The first, 15-minute video from 2021 covers his early life, education and rise to financial dominance, his exploitation of underaged girls, the ineffectual legal efforts to stop this sexual abuse, and his eventual arrest and death in prison in 2019. The video raises serious concerns about the ability of money and political connections to thwart justice.

The 5-minute video following discusses the heavily-redacted release of the Epstein files by the Department of Justice.

The last, 2-minute video shows the international fallout from the recent release of the department of justice of the Epstein files

You can see these videos here:

How They Were Caught: Jeffrey Epstein
https://youtu.be/rMIHNjDvMp4

Lawyer for Epstein survivors reacts to Ghislaine Maxwell pleading the Fifth before lawmakers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvc9AjmbaX0

Far-reaching international fallout from latest Epstein files
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sIBYjgsy4c

Here is one of the files, a contact book, with the majority of its content redacted: https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1391321/dl?inline.

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The riddle of experience vs. memory

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Daniel Kahneman at the Digital Life Design conference on January 27, 2009 in Munich, Germany.

11 a.m., February 22, 2026

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we watch a video from February 2010, in which Daniel Kahneman explores the link between happiness and our selective memory.

Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves” perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy — and our own self-awareness.

Widely regarded as the world’s most influential living psychologist, Kahneman won the Nobel in Economics for his pioneering work in behavioral economics — exploring the irrational ways we make decisions about risk.

Daniel Kahneman (March 5, 1934 – March 27, 2024) was an Israeli-American psychologist best known for his work on the psychology of judgement and decision-making well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economical together with Vernon L. Smith. Kahneman’s published empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory. Kahneman became known as the “grandfather of behavioral economics.”

You can watch this 20-minute video at https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory.

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The Darwin Day Lecture 2019, with Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

11 a.m., February 15, 2026

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we watch and discuss the Richard Dawkins lecture at the 2019 Darwin Day in London.

In 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, a book that is considered the foundation of evolutionary biology. The first official Darwin Day was launched in1995 by Robert J. Stevens, PhD, an active member of our own Humanist Community. Through Robert’s work and dedication, Darwin Day has become a world-wide event honoring the understanding of our place celebrated on February 12, Darwin’s birthday.

In 1995, Donald Johanson, the discoverer of “Lucy,” presented the first Darwin Day talk for us at Stanford University. The following year, 1996, Richard Dawkins was our Darwin Day speaker. He joined us at a restaurant afterward.

Richard Dawkins is one of the best-known scientists in the world. He is author of the Selfish Gene, which clarified our understanding of natural selection. He is also author of The God Delusion, which caused a global sensation upon publication in 2006. He has chaired almost every event in the Darwin Day Lecture series in the UK since 2003. Humanists UK president Professor Alice Roberts takes over the chair of the lecture at this event, and introduces Richard Dawkins as he delivers the Darwin Day Lecture.

You can pre-watch this 48-minute video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSNE02hwwSM

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