- -: Seasteading: Start Your Own Country at Sea
May 11, 2011 (about 2 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_innovation Patri Friedman, executive director and chairman of the Seasteading Institute, argues that government is an institution greatly in need of improvement, but one in which innovation is nearly impossible. He proposes build...
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- -: Google's Vint Cerf: What Can Gigabit Do for You?
July 5, 2011 (almost 2 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/nextwork_conference_2011 Google VP and chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf outlines the goals for Google's gigabit Internet project, which plans to bring an ultra high-speed fiber network to Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. ----- An Intern...
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- -: Is City Living Bad for Your Brain?
July 14, 2011 (almost 2 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/06/27/Peter_Kareiva_Conservation_in_the_Real_World Peter Kareiva, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, cites a recent study that compared the brains of people living in rural areas to those living in cities. Interestingly, those living in rural areas...
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- -: Mikhail Baryshnikov on Opening the Baryshnikov Arts Center
August 3, 2011 (almost 2 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/masters_modern_dance Renowned choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov discusses his motivation for opening the Baryshnikov Arts Center. He insists that practicing art is becoming more problematic due to the pressures of the economy. "I try to help young artists...
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- -: Neil deGrasse Tyson: Earth Is Bad for Life
August 17, 2011 (almost 2 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/19/Neil_DeGrasse_Tyson_Death_by_Black_Hole Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson argues Earth is not as an ideal environment for the existence of life as most people commonly think. "99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct," says Tyson. "T...
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- -: Predicting Urban Crime? There's an Equation for That
August 18, 2011 (almost 2 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/07/25/Why_Cities_Grow_Corporations_Die_and_Life_Gets_Faster Theoretical physicist Geoffrey B. West discusses his work developing a model to formulate predictions about a city based solely on its size. His equations can predict "mundane" properties like the ...
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- -: 'Bird Shit Architecture' in Brasilia and Beyond
September 2, 2011 (over 1 year ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/05/02/Jan_Gehl_Cities_for_People Jan Gehl, architect, urban planner, and author of Cities for People, discusses what he calls "bird shit architecture," a trend in urban planning that originated in the 1950's and persists to the present day. This type of arc...
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- -: The Myth of the City in Global Slums
November 18, 2011 (over 1 year ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/25/Cities_as_Solutions People originally moved to cities "to live longer, to live healthier," explains Carolyn Stephens, professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. But the result, she says, is often a risk trade-off between putting ...
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- -: The City as a Scalable Network
November 21, 2011 (over 1 year ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/25/Growth_Innovation_and_the_Accelerating_Pace_of_Life New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santa Fe differ historically, geographically, and culturally, but are there qualities that are universal to cities across the globe? Theoretical physicist Ge...
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- -: Obama/Calderón Joint Press Conference
April 18, 2009 (about 4 years ago)Presidents Obama and Calderón (Mexico) speak to the press assembled at Los Pinos, the Mexican presidential residence, on April 16, 2009. (public domain)
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