- -: Barghouti: 'U.N. Membership Will Give Palestine Hope'
January 17, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2012/01/10/The_UN_Should_Admit_Palestine_as_a_Full_Member_State Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, argues that admitting Palestine to the United Nations would give Palestine the opportunity to become a fully autonomous s...
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- -: Tapping 'Cognitive Surplus' to Solve Global Problems
January 5, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/30/Driving_Effective_Social_Innovation Calling on Clay Shirky's "cognitive surplus" theory, Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, argues that the best way to solve the world's problems and encourage social innovation is to engage t...
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- -: Interstellar Travel: Will We Ever Get Out of the Solar System?
January 12, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/02/Martin_Rees_Lifes_Future_in_the_Cosmos Astronomer Royal Martin Rees examines the various options for colonizing worlds beyond our own solar system, and expresses skepticism that humanity will ever achieve faster-than-light travel. "There are hypotheti...
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- -: The Era of Entanglement: Humanity Is 'Back to the Jungle'
January 10, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/24/World_Changing_Ideas Danny Hillis, co-chairman of the technology and design firm Applied Minds, characterizes the present day as a "post-Enlightenment" point in time in which people no longer understand the technology that surrounds them. Branding it ...
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- -: Will the Pursuit of Happiness Make You Happy?
January 7, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/l2_innovation_forum_2011 Does the pursuit of happiness actually lead to happiness? Stanford business professor Jennifer Aaker reveals surprising data from two studies that may suggest otherwise. ----- A social psychologist and marketer, Jennifer is ...
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- -: Peter Diamandis on Tapping 'Cognitive Surplus' to Solve Global Problems
January 5, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/30/Driving_Effective_Social_Innovation Calling on Clay Shirky's "cognitive surplus" theory, Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, argues that the best way to solve the world's problems and encourage social innovation is to engage t...
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- -: Michael Moore: America Is a Liberal Nation
January 4, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/02/Michael_Moore_Here_Comes_Trouble Filmmaker Michael Moore cites Americans' positions on several issues to support his claim that America is a predominantly liberal nation. ----- Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life is an unflinchingly honest, tak...
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- -: Why Is Science Great? It Illuminates God, Says Deepak Chopra
January 4, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/06/Deepak_Chopra_and_Leonard_Mlodinow_War_of_the_Worldviews Author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra discusses the role of science in his system of beliefs. While scientific advances in areas like medicine are important, he explains, "God is much more a...
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- -: Science, Religion, and the Natural World
December 31, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/06/Deepak_Chopra_and_Leonard_Mlodinow_War_of_the_Worldviews Physicist Leonard Mlodinow distinguishes between what he sees as the roles of science and religion in understanding the world. While some find spirituality useful for explaining some of the thin...
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- -: Venture Capitalist Roger McNamee: 'Google Is Done'
December 30, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/06/28/Elevation_Partners_Director_and_Co-Founder_Roger_McNamee Roger McNamee notices a precipitous decline in Google's search business as a result of the iPhone and other mobile devices, which use apps to access the internet instead of the world wide web. "...
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