- -: The Future of Making Out? Virtual Kisses and Sex Robots
October 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Research scientist Sheril Kirshenbaum discusses the future of kissing, from sending a virtual kiss to making out with Roxxxy, a full-size interactive sex doll. ----- Sheril Kirshenbaum discusses one of humanity's fondest and, as she shows, fascinating pastimes... kissing. She is a scientist wit...
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- -: Want to Foster Innovation? Put Down Your iPad and Unplug
October 10, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Want to Foster Innovation? Put Down Your iPad and Unplug Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/idea_festival_2011 IBM technology evangelist David Barnes champions boredom as a critical ingredient in fostering innovation. Trying to come up with the next big disruptive idea? Unplug for awh...
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- -: How to Run a Winning Political Campaign: Fight Back Fast
October 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/idea_festival_2011 Sam Graham-Felsen, a global new media strategist who was Barack Obama's chief blogger for his 2008 transformational presidential campaign, discusses how the Obama campaign team fought prominent political smears during the election. ...
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- -: Aubrey de Grey: For a Long Life, Listen to Your Body
October 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/idea_festival_2011 Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey shares insight on how to prolong one's life. "Do not generalize, do not just buy a book and believe what it says," says de Grey. "Pay attention to your own body, listen to what works for you."...
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- -: Nancy Pelosi: 'Workers Are People, Too'
October 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi discusses "class warfare" at The New Yorker Festival 2011. In response to a recent quip from a Republican Presidential candidate that "corporations are people," Pelosi counters, "Workers are ...
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- -: Neuromarketing: How to Appeal to the Reptilian Brain
October 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/idea_festival_2011 Neuromarketing pioneer Patrick Renvoise discusses the importance of visual stimulation as it relates to the reptilian brain's influence on consumer spending habits. ----- Neuromarketing expert Patrick Renvoisé exploits his knowled...
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- -: International Espionage: Do the Ends Justify the Means?
October 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/01/Sleuths_Watching_the_Detectives Robert Baer shares his experience as an undercover CIA operative, and discusses whether covert actions taken in the name of security justify the personal sacrifice for agents and political risk for the nation. ----- T...
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- -: What Makes a Good Film Adaptation?
October 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jeffrey Eugenides discusses the process of adapting a book into a film. A book "radically changes once it becomes visual. It's no longer a book, and to try to insist on it being a book will usua...
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- -: Richard Dawkins: Who Was the First Human?
October 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 Biologist and author Richard Dawkins presents a thought experiment to explain human origins. Following each generation backwards across millions of years of evolution, Dawkins shows why no species -- including homo sapiens -- ...
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- -: Why Wall Street's Imploding, and Main Street's Improving
October 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 James Suroweicki discusses a "dramatic difference" between service industries where principal-agent conflicts are pervasive, and industries focused on manufactured goods. In the former, Surowiecki notes, agents are becoming ex...
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