Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Douglas Adams: Parrots, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world's creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity.


Almost 90 minutes. One man on stage. No props. No fancy slides. No music. Just talking to the audience, and a bit of reading from his books. Can't think of very many people who could pull that off.


(Hat tip to Peter.)

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