Jimmy Wales - Keeping Wikipedia Politically Neutral
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=459 Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales discusses how a site with an open editorial policy is able to maintain political neutrality in its articles. ----- Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture Vision is one of the most powerful forms of long-term thinking. Jimmy Wales, founder and ... Read more
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- -: Jimmy Wales - Keeping Wikipedia Politically Neutral
December 19, 2006 (over 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=459 Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales discusses how a site with an open editorial policy is able to maintain political neutrality in its articles. ----- Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture Vision is one of the most powerful form...
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- -: Fritz Stern - Fleeing Nazi Germany
January 3, 2007 (over 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=481 Fritz Stern, University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, discusses his family's emigration from Nazi Germany in 1938, just five weeks prior to Kristallnacht. ----- Fritz Stern on "Five Germanys I Have Known." Stern's family...
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- -: A Duty to Heal
February 7, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/09/19/Dan_Gediman_This_I_Believe Dr. Pius Kamau reads his essay "A Duty to Heal." This excerpt is taken from a program on the book "This I Believe," featuring Dan Gediman. ----- Dan Gediman, the executive producer of NPR's This I Believe, joins local cont...
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- -: IQ Testing and Nazi Eugenics - Stephen Murdoch
May 23, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/16/Stephen_Murdoch_Discusses_IQ Author Stephen Murdoch describes how IQ testing was used as justification for eugenics programs in Nazi Germany and the United States. ----- Stephen Murdoch, author of IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea, discusses the ...
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- -: Are the Olympics Outdated? - Frank Deford
July 15, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/23/Frank_Deford_on_Sports_The_Hype_and_the_Hypocrisy Acclaimed sportswriter Frank Deford addresses political issues surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and argues that the Olympic Games have become outdated as a cultural concept. ----- Frank Deford,...
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- -: Iraq and the Morality of War - Elie Wiesel
August 8, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/27/Elie_Wiesel_What_Makes_Us_Moral Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel argues that war is inherently immoral because of the suffering and destruction it entails. Weisel recalls how, in the run-up to the Iraq war, he counseled President Bush against an invasion. ...
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- -: Why Christopher Hitchens Called Himself a Trotskyist
August 11, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/28/Uncommon_Knowledge_Christopher_Hitchens__Robert_Service Author and journalist Christopher Hitchens defends calling himself a Trotskyist. Hitchens says Trotsky "combined in himself the role of man of action and man of ideas," and admires his opposition...
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- -: Did the World Learn from Auschwitz? - Elie Wiesel
August 17, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/27/Elie_Wiesel_What_Makes_Us_Moral Elie Wiesel calls education the only weapon against racism, although the leaders of Nazi murder commands were well-educated. He asks, "If Auschwitz hasn't cured the world of anti-Semitism, what can?" ----- Humanitaria...
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- -: Machine for Softening Hardened Hearts - Arthur Ganson
September 29, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/14/Arthur_Ganson_Machines_and_the_Breath_of_Time Kinetic sculptor Arthur Ganson explains his "Machine for Softening Hardened Hearts," an artwork that allows the user to "caress" the heart of Adolf Hitler. The piece explores the personal nature of evil an...
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- -: Noam Chomsky Compares Right-Wing Media to Nazi Germany
October 14, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/06/Noam_Chomsky_Philosophies_of_Language_and_Politics Linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky criticizes right-wing media outlets, which he describes as delivering a message of paranoia and economic populism comparable to Nazis during the Weimar Rep...
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