Sean Ryan - The Art of the Prank

Author: Sean Ryan

Sean Ryan is a consummate success at failing to finish anything of real value in its entirety. Other notable accomplishments include his active and consistent participation in the propagation of other's extreme wealth as a lemming employed by Goldman-Sachs as an Instructor in a Culinary School. For the pittance, he pontificates about the grandeur of wine, its history, its position within multiple cultures, and is extraordinarily well versed in the biological, psychological, and long term effects of its active component, ether. Sean is a student of life who \"keeps it real\" by actively searching out the worldviews of others through art, literature, music, and dogmatic rhetoric (\"W\" is his current hero and holds his beliefs as the standard to be emulated). He currently finds himself immersed in the world of homosexual internet porn where he believes that he is close to bridging the source of the social fractures between those who enjoy muscle cars, the WWF, and \"big tits\" with those who like to simply ride the muscle. He often muses that he is a renaissance man who proudly bears the nickname that his students have ascribed to him, \"King Dolt\".

This video is from the TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) 2006 Conference and it lives exclusively on the TED Website. They also offer a 45.7MB video podcast of it you can download. Although there is an ad at the beginning and the end of the video, the content in between is well worth viewing. -SR

From the TED Website: “Skeptic Magazine founder Michael Shermer takes us on a hilarious romp through the strange claims we humans put forth as truth – from alien encounters to Virgin Mary sightings on pizza pies, to hidden messages revealed while playing ‘Stairway to Heaven’ backwards – and explains the evolutionary and cognitive basis for these lapses in reason… Continue reading “Michael Shermer on Skepticism and Pseudoscience, from “TED Talks””