- -: Mainstream Media: Truth That Sells? - Julian Burnside
August 28, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/04/Debate_The_Media_Can_Not_Be_Trusted_to_Tell_the_Truth Australian barrister Julian Burnside outlines content-related constraints on the media industry. He emphasizes the role of profit as a manipulator of content, claiming sports, sex, and political mi...
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- -: Financial Risk: The Dangers of a 'Sure Thing'
September 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/15/Max_Barry_on_Risk Satirical author Max Barry discusses a hypothetical game where players risk losing $10 to earn $10.10, which he explains is actually a losing proposition. He argues that making those kinds of investments are what led to the recent fi...
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- -: Global Health: Are We Worried About the Wrong Things?
September 2, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/12/Health_Sustainability_and_Globalization Stephen Leeder argues that while the media tends to focus on communicable diseases, non-communicable illnesses are often more deadly. He illustrates this by stating that of 1000 people with swine flu, only one w...
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- -: Reducing the Cost of Electric Cars - Shai Agassi
September 8, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/22/The_Electric_Horizon_Shai_Agassi Shai Agassi, founder and CEO of Better Place, discusses his plan to economically price the electric car. "We've taken the price of the battery off the car," says Agassi, bringing the consumer cost down to around $20,00...
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- -: Bottom-Up Health Care: Eat Right, Eat Local
September 22, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/15/A_Return_to_Healing_Len_Saputo__Byron_Belitsos Dr. Len Saputo, co-author of A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine, describes one city's goal to improve the healthfulness of food city-wide. He argues "we can do prog...
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- -: Modern Democracy's Roots in Early Islam? - John Keane
September 22, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/24/John_Keane_Whats_So_Good_About_Democracy Although the Greeks lay claim to the creation of democracy, author John Keane traces its origin back to Mesopotamia - an area that now includes Iraq and Iran. He also claims that early Muslims may have practice...
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- -: Two Futures for Democracy in China - John Keane
September 24, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/24/John_Keane_Whats_So_Good_About_Democracy Political theorist John Keane claims that the future of democracy is in the hands of China. He sees two trends: one which he calls an experiment in post-democracy, and the other a textbook statement of monitory...
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- -: How Better Voter Targeting Can Win Elections - Laura Quinn
September 28, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/07/POWER_Laura_Quinn_on_Data_for_Political_Change Laura Quinn, CEO of Catalist, explains how her database pools voter data nationwide to target specific voters. Comparing the Kerry and Obama campaigns in Ohio, Quinn shows that while Kerry only targeted D...
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- -: Speaking Out Against the Purple Pill - Len Saputo
September 30, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/15/A_Return_to_Healing_Len_Saputo__Byron_Belitsos Dr. Len Saputo discusses the controversy surrounding the highly advertised "purple pill," a prescription acid blocker called NEXIUM. Dr. Saputo lists serious side effects of the drug, including addiction ...
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- -: Fighting for Women's Rights In China - Sheryl WuDunn
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/21/Empowering_Women_and_Girls_in_the_Developing_World Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheryl WuDunn describes her journey from covering the violence in Tiananmen Square to actively fighting the oppression of women around the world. Her activism was spa...
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- -: Gingrich Slams 'Weak' Anti-Terror Strategy
October 6, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/20/Newt_Gingrich_Keeping_America_Safe_Prosperous_and_Free Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich expresses alarm that "seven years after 9/11, we have not won." Suggesting a fundamental re-examination of military strategy, Gingrich warns that the bureaucrati...
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- -: Photographing the Extraordinary within the Ordinary - Tamara Dean
October 9, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/04/Tamara_Dean_and_Dean_Sewell_on_Photography Photographer Tamara Dean displays photographs she took during the decade following her high school graduation. The goal of her work, she says, is to provide insight into a small moment of interaction. ----- ...
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- -: A Visual Trip Through Tsunami Aftermath - Dean Sewell
October 12, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/04/Tamara_Dean_and_Dean_Sewell_on_Photography Award-winning photographer Dean Sewell recounts his experience documenting the aftermath of the 2009 Tsunami in Indonesia. He shows photos he took of the destruction and shares stories of the victims that cro...
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- -: Could US Disarmament Spark Increase in Nuclear Weapons? - Rory Medcalf
October 13, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/29/Can_Obamas_Nuclear_Disarmament_Agenda_Work Rory Medcalf raises concerns about the impact of American nuclear arms reductions on "extended deterrence." Without the U.S. promise to bring nuclear weapons to the defense of allies, he says, other countries...
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- -: Why Don't Boys Play with Dolls? - Lise Eliot
October 13, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/29/Lise_Eliot_Pink_Brain_Blue_Brain Dr. Lise Eliot explores the idea that boys are inherently attracted to play with "boy toys" such as trucks and action figures, while girls naturally gravitate toward dolls. She points out that both boys and girls are a...
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- -: Why We Need Water - Peter Wothers
October 21, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/18/Peter_Wothers_Just_Add_Water Chemist Peter Wothers performs a small experiment to represent the human body's need for water. He explains that most of the body's chemical reactions in solution. ----- Water covers three quarters of our planet and make...
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- -: Was the Global Economy 'Piggybacking' on American Debt?
October 22, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/23/What_In_The_World_Is_Going_On Robin Niblett, Director of Chatham House, emphasizes the global interconnectedness of the current economic crisis. He admits that the crisis was indeed US-led, but says "getting America back on track again is going to be ...
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- -: How Your Gas Money Funds Terrorism - James Woolsey
October 27, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/19/James_Woolsey_on_Energy Former CIA director James Woolsey claims American consumption of oil helps to fund the Saudi-financed Wahhabi madrasas that teach fundamental Islam to the youth in Pakistan and other parts of the world. ----- ACCESS in Washin...
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- -: "China Needs to Grow Rich Before it Grows Old" - Robin Niblett
October 27, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/23/What_In_The_World_Is_Going_On Robin Niblett, Director of Chatham House, predicts a rapid demographic change in the world population by 2050. Although he sees many countries with aging populations, he is most alarmed about the graying of China. "China ...
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- -: Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin on Bing and Yahoo
October 28, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/22/A_Conversation_with_Googles_Sergey_Brin Google co-founder Sergy Brin gives his take on other search engines, including Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo. "Bing has reminded us...that search is a very competitive market," Brin says, adding that it's a "shame"...
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- -: Law Enforcement 'Addicted' to Drug Revenue - Norm Stamper
November 10, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/04/Should_All_Drug_Use_Be_Made_Legal Norm Stamper, former chief of the Seattle Police Department, argues that law enforcement, and the private industries associated with it, make too much revenue from the prosecution of drug laws to support reform. "I th...
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- -: Too Much Ego Boosting Bad for Kids? - Barbara Ehrenreich
November 11, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/24/Bright-Sided_Barbara_Ehrenreich Nickel and Dimed author Barbara Ehrenreich explains her take on positive parenting. While she supports the encouragement of self-esteem in children, she warns parents that "delusions are dangerous." ----- Barbara Ehre...
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- -: Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Israel Trying to Hide Palestinians? - Saree Makdisi
November 12, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/22/Excavating_Memory_in_Jerusalem Saree Makdisi, author of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, argues that one ulterior motive for Israel's separation barriers is to "render Palestinians invisible to Jewish colonists." Makdisi shows photos demo...
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- -: Practical Solutions to End the War on Drugs - Alex Wodak
November 12, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/04/Should_All_Drug_Use_Be_Made_Legal Physician Alex Wodak discusses reforming the war on drugs, including legalizing marijuana and repealing criminal penalties for personal possession and consumption. He says the focus of drug reform should be on harm re...
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- -: Democracy and the Wired World - Michael Wesley
November 16, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/04/Is_Democracy_Not_For_Everyone In this panel debate, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley explores how advancements in communication technologies have facilitated the spread of global democracy. "Fatalism is dead," he says. "Democracy is he...
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- -: Democracy: It's Not For Anyone - Greg Craven
November 18, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/04/Is_Democracy_Not_For_Everyone Greg Craven, Vice-Chancellor at the Australian Catholic University, takes a satirical approach in support of the claim that democracy is not for everyone. "Democracy is not for everyone because democracy is not for anyone...
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- -: Sex, Drugs, and Firing Neurons: This Is Your Brain on Cognition
November 25, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/04/Baroness_Susan_Greenfield_Is_Online_Networking_Harmful Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield describes the brain's cognitive processes for interpreting and learning from new sensations. Greenfield claims thrill-seeking -- "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" -- ...
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- -: John Perkins on Consumer Choices: Investing in the Future of the Planet
December 24, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/v/c11081 John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, relates the story of his daughter choosing to pay triple for a baby crib because it was made in Canada with plantation trees, rather than one made in China by sweetshop workers. "It costs a lit...
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- -: Signal-to-Noise Ratio: Finding Context in Iranian Tweets
January 4, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/05/Twitter_and_the_Iranian_Democracy_Uprising Protesters in Iran have been leveraging social media to broadcast their plight since sharp dissent erupted back in June 2009 after the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In this clip, Al Jazeera's R...
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- -: Mechanical Turk and the Danger of Digital Sweatshops - Jonathan Zittrain
January 5, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/19/Minds_For_Sale_The_Future_of_the_Internet Professor Jonathan Zittrain offers some background on Amazon's Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing marketplace that pays small amounts of money for "human intelligence tasks." He analyzes the social impli...
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- -: To Catch a Thief: The Psychology of a Criminal
January 6, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/05/David_Mutton_Policing_Our_Minds David Mutton, former Chief Psychologist for the New South Wales Police, gives an overview of common criminal personality types. He explains how police officers take advantage of these characteristics when interviewing s...
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- -: Of Cannibalism and Other Horrors of War - Emmanuel Jai
January 14, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/24/Emmanuel_Jal_A_Boy_Soldiers_Story Emmanuel Jal, musician and author of War Child: A Child Soldier's Story, recounts the "lowest point" in his life when starvation nearly turned him to cannibalism. ----- Emmanuel Jal was born in a tiny village in Sou...
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- -: The Role of 'Evil Psychology' in Criminal Interrogations - David Mutton
January 14, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/05/David_Mutton_Policing_Our_Minds "To be effective, investigative psychologists cannot be hampered by the absolutes of a human rights perspective," argues David Mutton. "We can't do it the nice way." Mutton endorses the use of stern psychological techni...
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- -: Extreme Skyscrapers: Precursors to Recession?
January 15, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/30/Skyplane_The_Impact_of_High-Rises_on_City_Life__Culture Philip Goad argues that modern skyscrapers are simply "very larger consumer objects" that value excess over practicality and often indicate approaching economic doom. Goad says high-rises like th...
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- -: Designing the 'Six Feet Under' Title Sequence - Danny Yount
January 15, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/03/Danny_Yount_on_Designing_Film_and_TV_Title_Sequences Designer and director Danny Yount discusses the creative process of designing the title sequence for the HBO original series "Six Feet Under." From the first images to the final storyboard animatic,...
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- -: The Cultural Legacy of the LSD Movement - Don Lattin
January 19, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/07/Don_Lattin_The_Harvard_Psychedelic_Club Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (now known as Ram Dass) began researching psychedelics as part of the Harvard Psilocybin Project back in 1960. The university shut down the experiments in 1962 and the rest, as t...
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- -: Unbearable Suffering: An Argument Against Assisted Dying - Kevin Yuill
January 27, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/01/Should_Doctors_Be_Able_to_Help_Us_Die Kevin Yuill argues legalizing assisted suicide would only codify a neutral stance towards killing one's self. Calling it a "foot in the door," Yuill also argues that legalizing euthanasia would enable anyone to de...
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- -: Finding Hope in Small-Scale Change - Peter Sellars
February 4, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/13/HOPE_2010_Crisis_Catharsis_Renewal Stage director Peter Sellars relates the inspirational story of an ex-convict who started a home for women recently released from prison. He draws on this story to demonstrate the power of small-scale social change. ...
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- -: Ethical Leadership: An Oxymoron? - Eva Cox
February 5, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/13/HOPE_2010_Crisis_Catharsis_Renewal Social commentator and activist Eva Cox condemns the tendency of politicians to prey on voters' fear and anxiety in order to win elections. "Fear is the antidote of hope," Cox says, arguing for sharing and fairness r...
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- -: Summers to Big Banks: Why Cash for Bonuses, None for Lending?
February 8, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/29/The_US_Economic_Outlook_with_Lawrence_Summers Lawrence Summers berates big banks for the hypocrisy of handing out large corporate bonuses while reducing lending and protesting government fees. "I don't understand how you can logically maintain that pa...
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- -: Cory Doctorow: Is Your Search History Really Anonymous?
February 9, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/31/Rethinking_Privacy_in_an_Age_of_Disclosure_and_Sharing Boing Boing editor and blogger Cory Doctorow warns that Web searches are more difficult to "anonymize" than is commonly believed, citing AOL's accidental data disclosure in 2006. "Would it harm yo...
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- -: Meet the 'Vortex of Despair': Four Predictions for Earth's Future
February 13, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/28/Brainfood_-_Can_You_Imagine_The_Next_60_Years Dr. Chris Luebkeman outlines four different "plausible futures" for the planet the selfish bubble, carbon is crime, ecological age, and vortex of despair. He judges each of these potential futures in term...
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- -: Forget Snakes, Beware of the Tropical Bullet Ant - Darin Penneys
February 25, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/19/Darin_Penneys_Tropical_Plant_Collecting_Expeditions An ant whose sting feels like a bullet wound? How about a tarantula with a leg span the size of a dinner plate? Botanist Darin Penneys flips through a slideshow of all the creepy and crawly creatures...
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- -: Does Pop Culture Turn Us Into Consumer Slaves? - Stephen Sewell
February 26, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/09/Popular_Culture_Weve_Seen_the_Future_and_Its_Junk Screenwriter Stephen Sewell rails against the social effects of consumerism, stating that modern pop culture serves to "enslave" people in a endless cycle of insatiable desire. "Popular culture isn't c...
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- -: In Search of ET: Should We Broadcast?
March 4, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/23/Jill_Tarter_The_Future_of_SETI_Research Should earthlings actively announce their presence to extraterrestrials? Director of the Center for SETI Research Jill Tarter says that while broadcasting is inevitable, we should wait until we are more technolo...
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- -: Data.gov: Hacker Culture Takes Over Government?
March 18, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/04/Beth_Noveck_Transparent_Government The Open Government Initiative's Beth Noveck discusses Data.gov, the Obama administration's attempt to make government more transparent. While conspiracy theorists dominated the initiative's early days, Noveck says t...
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- -: Climate Scientist Oppenheimer: Don't Be Fooled by Cooling Temps, Earth Still Heating Up
March 22, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/23/Global_Warming_How_Policy_Can_Catch_Up_With_Science "Not every decade is going to be necessarily warmer than the decade before," says climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer. He labels the 2010s as simply a relative "cooling decade," anticipating an inc...
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- -: Kati Marton Recalls Parents' Arrest in Communist Hungary
March 24, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/25/Kati_Marton_Enemies_of_the_People Journalist and author Kati Marton reads an excerpt from her latest book, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America. The passage recounts Marton's childhood memories of the Hungarian secret police arresting...
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- -: Making Sense of Raw Data: A Labor of Love - Beth Noveck
March 25, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/04/Beth_Noveck_Transparent_Government U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer Beth Noveck explains why "loved data lasts longer." Noveck says the raw data offered online by the Open Government Initiative is useless to most citizens unless mashed-up and/or c...
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- -: Nature vs Nurture, Revisited: Can Persistence Be Taught?
April 6, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/18/The_Genius_in_All_of_Us_David_Shenk The Genius in All of Us author David Shenk addresses the question of whether behavioral traits are learned, or are based on genetic predispositions. Shenk cites a study that found seventh graders who were praised fo...
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- -: Digital Espionage: Cyber Attacks vs Exploitation
April 9, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/26/War_and_Law_in_Cyberspace Computer scientist Herb Lin distinguishes between two categories of hostile cyber operations: cyber attack, and cyber exploitation. A cyber attack, he says, is perpetrated to "destroy, degrade, disrupt" an adversary's informa...
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- -: Can Your Behavior Affect Your Genes? - David Shenk
April 9, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/18/The_Genius_in_All_of_Us_David_Shenk Can the decisions you make influence your children's genetics? Maybe, according to emerging research. The Genius in All of Us author David Shenk introduces the field of epigenetics, which explores how environmental ...
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- -: Was the Surge Worth It? The Human Cost of the Iraq War
April 13, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/27/David_Finkel_The_Good_Soldiers Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Finkel remembers fallen soldier Duncan Crookston, a 19-year-old who died five months after being severely injured by an explosively formed penetrator (EFP). "We reach the point where...
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- -: Iraq War on Video: A Day in the Life of Troops on the Ground
April 15, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/27/David_Finkel_The_Good_Soldiers The Good Soldiers author David Finkel plays a short video featuring U.S. Army footage taken from a Humvee in October 2007 during a typical mission in Eastern Baghdad. He details the day-to-day nature of Army life and des...
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- -: When Nixon Met Elvis: Tales of FOIA Document Requests
April 23, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/16/Logan_Symposium_How_the_Sausage_Is_Made_Journalists Professing to be a "documents fetishist," Thomas S. Blanton, Director of the National Security Archive, reflects on his experiences requesting documents via the Freedom of Information Act. The most r...
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- -: Dawkins: Did Religion Have an Evolutionary Value?
May 7, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/01/Meet_The_Author_Richard_Dawkins Richard Dawkins argues that humanity's historical predisposition towards religion and supernatural beliefs may have held an evolutionary utility. "The rule of thumb: 'Believe whatever your parents tell you,' quite clear...
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- -: Richard Dawkins: Has Technology Changed Human Evolution?
May 12, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/01/Meet_The_Author_Richard_Dawkins Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins toys with the idea that technology might be effecting human evolution. Using the example of poor eyesight mitigated by the invention of vision-correcting glasses, Dawkins points ou...
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- -: Is the Pursuit of Happiness Making Us Miserable? - Petrea King
May 14, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/09/Is_the_Pursuit_of_Happiness_Making_Us_Miserable Petrea King, founder and CEO of The Quest for Life Foundation, argues the pursuit of happiness is making us all miserable. "Happiness is found in the present moment," she says. "That's where life is, lov...
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- -: Is Depression Being Over-Diagnosed? - Ian Hickie and Tanveer Ahmed
May 17, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/09/Is_the_Pursuit_of_Happiness_Making_Us_Miserable Psychiatrists Ian Hickie and Tanveer Ahmed debate whether the recent spike in depression cases signal the end of an old problem or the beginnings of a new one. ----- The pursuit of happiness is one of ...
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- -: The Military's 'Reciprocal Relationship' with Video Games
May 18, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/07/Peter_Nowak_Sex_Bombs_and_Burgers Technology journalist Peter Nowak shares a little-known fact: the first video game was developed by a contractor for the military. The relationship between the gaming industry and the military has "come full circle," ...
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- -: The Invasion of Management Speak - Don Watson
May 19, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/27/AC_Grayling_Its_All_Gone_To_The_Dogs Author Don Watson laments the encroachment of corporate-style language into other aspects of daily life. He cites ironic examples from a government seminar he attended on "plain English," as well as a recent pastor...
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- -: Beyond Military Drones: The World's First Sex Robot
May 20, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/07/Peter_Nowak_Sex_Bombs_and_Burgers While the most common use of robots today is in warfare, Sex, Bombs and Burgers author Peter Nowak says that military robotics companies aim to eventually sell robots to the average consumer. For example, Roxxxy, the ...
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- -: Elysia Chlorotica: A Sap-Sucking, Solar-Powered Sea Slug
May 25, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/05/Sneaky_Sea_Slugs_Three_Tales_of_Tidepool_Thievery Dr. Rebecca Johnson, invertebrate zoologist at the California Academy of Sciences, introduces Elysia chlorotica, a sea slug with interesting eating habits. The sap-sucking sea slug has evolved to under...
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- -: Between Two Theories: Humanity's Place in the Cosmos
May 27, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/30/Lord_Martin_Rees_Life_and_the_Cosmos Cambridge University cosmologist Lord Martin Rees describes the two domains of physical science as an ouroboros: the microscopic, which obeys quantum laws, and the astronomical, which follows Einstein's relativity....
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- -: Cannibal Mouse: The MythBusters Episode You'll Never See
May 28, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/22/Adam_Savage_Presents_Problem_Solving_How_I_Do_It "MythBusters" co-host Adam Savage recalls using mice to test the old adage about the cereal box being more nutritious than the sugary cereal inside it. While Savage and co-host Jamie Hyneman found the s...
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- -: Adam Savage on His 100,000-Volt Cattle Prod Shock
June 3, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/22/Adam_Savage_Presents_Problem_Solving_How_I_Do_It MythBuster Adam Savage describes being tricked by a producer into grabbing a cattle prod while filming the episode "Baghdad Battery." Savage says a 100,000-volt shock "feels so close to dying that it is...
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- -: Evangelical Richard Cizik Reflects on Ousting from NAE
June 3, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/11/The_Cost_of_Conscience_Dissent_in_the_Workplace Richard Cizik, former Vice President of the National Association of Evangelicals, reflects on being ousted from his position for voicing progressive political opinions that were viewed to be out of line ...
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- -: 'Little Brother' and What Orwell Got Wrong - Cory Doctorow
June 8, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/18/Cory_Doctorow_For_the_Win Boing Boing co-editor and sci-fi author Cory Doctorow explains the idea behind his novel Little Brother, which he describes as "related" to George Orwell's 1984 in that both explore similar themes of technology and control. A...
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- -: Nouriel Roubini: Managing Risk to Revive the Market
June 8, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/13/Nouriel_Roubini_A_Crash_Course_in_the_Future_of_Finance Economist Nouriel Roubini argues that in addition to financial regulation, fixing the economy will require restructuring incentive plans for bankers and traders. He suggests that those in the ban...
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- -: Mammal Biology: As Temps Rise, Species Shrink and Diversity Wanes
June 10, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/18/Dr_Elizabeth_Hadly_Mammals_and_Climate_Change Stanford biologist Elizabeth Hadly explains some of the ways in which mammals may be effected by global warming. In addition to fluctuating populations and dwindling genetic diversity, she notes evidence s...
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- -: Is the Xbox Dead? What's Next for Game Development
June 11, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/27/Mobile_Apps_Shifting_Dynamics_of_a_Digital_World Social Gaming Network founder and chairman Shervin Pishevar argues that when it comes to gaming, devices like the iPad, iPhone, and Android are the wave of the future. "Anyone that's doing games on plat...
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- -: Are Americans Laughing with Stephen Colbert, or at Him?
June 15, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/26/Satiristas_with_Paul_Provenza_and_Dan_Dion Author and actor Paul Provenza examines the broad appeal of comedian Stephen Colbert. Provenza recalls a satirical Colbert Report segment about the diversity of the delegates at the Democratic National Conven...
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- -: Evolution of the Shrug: Darwin's Principle of Antithesis
July 13, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/20/Adam_Gopnik_and_Steven_Pinker_Debate_Darwin Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker relays his favorite bit of "Darwiniana": Darwin's principle of antithesis. Darwin proposed that both animals and humans alike employ a certain set of biological sig...
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- -: Was Darwin Racist? - Adam Gopnik
July 14, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/20/Adam_Gopnik_and_Steven_Pinker_Debate_Darwin The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik examines Charles Darwin's contentious exploration of race. Gopnik argues that while Darwin may have been a "civilizationist," he was not inherently racist. ----- Adam Gopnik, a...
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- -: Revisiting 'Climategate': Has Climate Skepticism Discredited the IPCC?
July 27, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/12/Tim_Flannery_Now_or_Never Environmentalist Tim Flannery accuses an "enormous and well-funded disinformation campaign" of targeting climate science organizations like the IPCC. ----- Here at Darwin's annual writers' event, Professor Tim Flannery laun...
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- -: Darwin's Stance on Christianity? A Damnable Doctrine
August 2, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/22/Elliott_Sober_Darwin_and_Intelligent_Design Professor of Philosophy Elliot Sober analyzes Charles Darwin's critique of religion and Christianity. Darwin's stance that an omnipotent God would not have been so evil, Sober argues, was shaped by the amoun...
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- -: Hitchens on Obama's Israel Policy: 'Not Impressive'
August 3, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/21/Barack_Obama_No_He_Cant Author Christopher Hitchens criticizes the Obama administration's response to the continued construction of Israeli settlements in Arab neighborhoods. "The last time there was an impressive American policy it was a Republican a...
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- -: Reverse Graffiti: Public Service or Public Nuisance?
August 13, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/28/Paul_Moose_Curtis_The_Art_of_Reverse_Graffiti Paul Curtis (aka Moose) discusses his work in the medium of reverse graffiti, which is a method of "clean tagging" or creating temporary messages and images on surfaces by removing dirt and grime. ----- ...
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- -: Are Our Bankers Too Clever for Their Own Good? - David Wessel
August 13, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/21/David_Wessel_Meet_Paul_Keating Wall Street Journal economics editor David Wessel explains the current financial crisis as the product of too clever minds, too much money, and very little accountability. "The brightest of our youth were lured to financ...
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- -: Bernanke a Hero? WSJ Editor Wessel Says Crisis Could Have Been Much Worse
August 16, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/21/David_Wessel_Meet_Paul_Keating David Wessel, economics editor for The Wall Street Journal and author of In Fed We Trust, argues that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was one of the biggest heroes to come out of the recent financial crisis. Wessel explains th...
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- -: The Climate Change Gamble: An Unacceptable Risk?
August 18, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/23/John_Ralston_Saul_on_Freedom_and_Globalization John Ralston Saul, President of International PEN, frames the climate change debate as a gamble, calling it an "unacceptable risk" even if the odds are less than 50-50 that human actions are triggering en...
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- -: A Scale that Tweets Your Weight? Meet the Quantified Self
August 19, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/06/17/Anand_Giridharadas_Global_Media_Ideas A scale that automatically tweets your weight? How about a website that analyzes the specifics of your love life? Journalist Anand Giridharadas reflects on burgeoning technologies that facilitate the quantificatio...
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- -: Ideal Happy to Sad Ratio? 3:1, Says Dr. Happy
August 24, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/15/Dr_Happy_and_Mr_Percival_The_Happiness_Handbook Psychologist Timothy Sharp (a.k.a. Dr. Happy) argues against the concept that negative emotions such as depression, stress, and anxiety should be reduced or eliminated to achieve happiness. Sharp approxi...
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- -: Space Hygiene and the Official Nose of NASA - Mary Roach
August 27, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/19/Mary_Roach_Packing_for_Mars Authors Mary Roach and Jeff Greenwald dive into the dirty world of astronaut hygiene. They talk about the glamorous job of opening the Gemini 7 hatch after a two-week mission, space deodorant, and the official nose of NASA,...
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- -: Dr. Happy: Free Yourself from the 'Tyranny of When'
August 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/15/Dr_Happy_and_Mr_Percival_The_Happiness_Handbook Why aren't people happier? Timothy Sharp (a.k.a. Dr. Happy) blames the "tyranny of when," or the idea that happiness will come after achieving some impending goal or milestone. Sharp's remedy? "Get happy...
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- -: How Is Plastic Like Diamonds? Explorer David de Rothschild on Sustainability
August 31, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/29/David_de_Rothschild_The_Plastiki_Expedition British adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild compares plastic to diamonds, joking that both are commonly found, and last forever. However unlike diamonds, he says, people are taught the unsust...
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- -: Joseph Stiglitz: 'Trickle Up Economics' to Blame for Crisis
September 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/26/Joseph_Stiglitz_on_Free_Markets_and_the_World_Economy Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that "trickle up economics" created the credit bubble that triggered the recent financial crisis. "There was a party going on, and nobody wanted...
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- -: How the Sex Trafficking Industry Is Evolving - Lydia Cacho
September 3, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/21/Lydia_Cacho_Goes_Undercover_in_the_Global_Sex_Trade Investigative journalist Lydia Cacho traces the increasing sophistication of sex traffickers, who she describes as having gone from simply abducting girls and women to "creating a pop culture of por...
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- -: Does Poverty Rise as Biodiversity Falls? - Pavan Sukhdev
September 7, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/03/Pavan_Sukhdev_What_Is_the_World_Worth Poverty or environmental degradation: which should society address first? According to economist Pavan Sukhdev, the issue is not that simple. He explains that declining biodiversity (frequently a result of industr...
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- -: Chief Justice Roberts: Who Opposed the Bill of Rights?
September 9, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/29/John_G_Roberts_A_History_of_the_US_Bill_of_Rights Chief Justice John Roberts shares two popular theories as to why the Bill of Rights was not included in the original Constitution. One theory is based on Alexander Hamilton's argument in "Federalist No...
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- -: What's Nature's Economic Value? - Pavan Sukhdev
September 15, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/03/Pavan_Sukhdev_What_Is_the_World_Worth Economist Pavan Sukhdev argues that in order to protect nature from damage caused by industrial growth, natural resources must be measured in terms of economic value. This viewpoint, he explains, can expose compan...
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- -: Megan Stack: War on Terror "Never Really Existed"
September 17, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/06/Megan_Stack_An_Education_in_War Megan Stack, author of Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War, defends her claim that the so-called War on Terror was more of a political generalization than an actual, coherent war....
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- -: Niall Ferguson: Will Debt Trigger US Collapse?
September 17, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/28/Niall_Ferguson_Empires_on_the_Edge_of_Chaos Harvard historian Niall Ferguson predicts that within the next five years, the U.S. will be spending so much on interest payments, it will have to slash defense spending. "Military retreat from the mountains...
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- -: J. Ralston Saul: Capitalism Fails in "Economy of Surplus"
September 20, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/23/John_Ralston_Saul_on_Freedom_and_Globalization Author and essayist John Ralston Saul attributes current economic troubles to capitalism's failure to function in an era of surplus. He dismisses the viability of globalization, and ventures that the U.S....
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- -: Stiglitz: Gov't Regulation Key to Healthy Economy
September 21, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/26/Joseph_Stiglitz_on_Free_Markets_and_the_World_Economy While some point to the economically stable decades following the Great Depression as a triumph of the free market, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz begs to differ. In reality, he says...
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- -: Context Matters: The Dangers of Sound-Bite Journalism
September 22, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/13/Jay_Rosen_The_Future_of_Context Modern media allow for the dissemination of virtually limitless amounts of information, but are news outlets taking full advantage of this capability? In an appeal to media professionals, NYU journalism professor Jay Ro...
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- -: A Plastic Revolution: de Rothschild Sails the Plastiki
September 23, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/29/David_de_Rothschild_The_Plastiki_Expedition British adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild discusses the revolutionary material his team designed for the Plastiki, a boat made from 12,500 plastic bottles that he sailed from San Francisco ...
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- -: Dealing with the Remains of Palestinian Suicide Bombers
September 28, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/06/Megan_Stack_An_Education_in_War Megan Stack, foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, reflects on something "truly bizarre" that she observed while covering the Second Intifada in Israel. The morgue in Jaffa, she says, was f...
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- -: Has the Press Release Killed the News?
October 5, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/10/John_Nichols_The_Death_and_Life_of_American_Journalism John Nichols, political blogger for The Nation, divides modern news into two categories: traditional journalism and press releases. He explains that a majority of stories now come from the latter ...
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- -: Could a Neanderthal Woman Beat a Champion Arm Wrestler?
October 6, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/12/Peter_McAllister_Manthropology Peter McAllister, author of Manthropology, compares the muscular size and strength of modern-day humans with that of Neanderthals. By examining fossil records, he has determined that a Neanderthal woman could exert more ...
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