- -: Does "Real Housewives" Speak to the American Zeitgeist?
March 19, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/24/Innovators_Series_NBC_Universals_Lauren_Zalaznick NBC Universal's Lauren Zalaznick discusses the primary appeal of hit Bravo shows like "Top Chef" and "The Real Housewives of Orange County." Zalaznick believes the network speaks to the zeitgeist of Am...
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- -: The E-Reader Wars: Is the Amazon Kindle Simply 'Kindling'?
April 8, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/24/Innovation_in_an_Era_of_Upheaval_The_E-Reader_Wars Is the Amazon Kindle here to stay, or simply "kindling" for the escalating tablet wars? Brooke Gladstone, host and Managing Editor of NPR's On the Media, argues the latter. Some publishers who don't w...
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- -: Behavioral Targeting: What Do Your Google Queries Reveal?
April 22, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/08/Privacy_and_Targeted_Advertising Justin Brookman, Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, outlines the consumer privacy issues associated with analyzing a user's search engine history to target ads based on browsing behavior. The res...
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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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- -: Moon Landing Hoax? How Faith Blocks Reason
May 17, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/24/Dr_Eugenie_C_Scott_Science_and_Skepticism Dr. Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, distinguishes between empirically based knowledge and "revealed knowledge," or knowledge gathered from a higher power. She us...
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- -: Opening Up the Ivory Tower? Access and Academic Publishing
May 19, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/21/The_Digital_University_Whats_Next Brett Bobley, Chief Information Officer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, argues that academic publishing is too restricted to small groups of academics. Bobley claims that too much intellectual and monet...
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- -: 'MySpace Lost Its Way' - News Corp. COO Chase Carey
June 2, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/26/Chase_Carey_Dep_Chair_Pres_and_COO_News_Corp News Corporation COO Chase Carey discusses the future of social networking site MySpace, which is owned by News Corp. "MySpace lost its way a bit," he says, but claims the site is working toward regaining f...
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- -: Did CIA Doctors Test Torture Techniques on Prisoners?
June 21, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/06/07/Blueprint_for_Accountability Dr. Allen Keller summarizes Physicians for Human Rights' June 7 report, "Experiments in Torture," which alleges CIA doctors conducted illegal, unethical experiments on prisoners to test torture techniques. The report's con...
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- -: Whose Fault Is Climate Change? World Plays 'Blame Game'
August 26, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/chautauqua_energy_power Arvind Subramanian, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, says the world is engaged in a "destructive blame game" in regards to the climate change debate. Poorer countries like China and India question the...
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- -: Neanderthal Genes Found in Modern Humans
February 2, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/01/18/Dr_Jean-Jacques_Hublin_Neanderthals_Deciphered Dr. Jean-Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology details a recent and curious discovery of a possible genetic integration between Neanderthals and modern humans around 60,...
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