- -: TEDxWinnipeg - Jim Blascovich - Digital Freedom: Virtual Reality, Avatars, and Multiple Identities
October 25, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Jim Blascovich, Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara If Our Brains Can't Distinguish between the Virtual World and the Real World, How Do We Know What's Real? As a society we are continuing to spend more and more time in the virtual world but recent research has found that it's begi...
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- -: TEDxWinnipeg - Shuvaloy Majumdar - Freedom: Connecting Citizens to State, Citizen and Idea
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Shuvaloy Majumdar, Visiting Foreign Policy Scholar, University of British Columbia Liu Institute for Global Issues Freedom: Connecting Citizens to State, Citizen and Idea I never thought there would be a time when a car bomb would sound as normal as sirens near a fire house. Or the scream of an...
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- -: TEDxDiliman - Roby Alampay - Freedom is Our Competitive Advantage
November 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Roby Alampay, former executive director of the Southeast Asia Press Alliance, a regional NGO dedicated to the promotion of journalist rights, argues that freedom has tangible economic benefits that the Philippines undervalues and underappreciates. Freedom is the one thing the country does better...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Maria van der Heijden - Creating jobs for 1 milion women
November 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Maria van der Heijden founded Women On Wings in 2007 because she wants to share her richness in life with many others. Not in the materialistic way of richness, but in the way of having freedom. Making her own choices, being aware of the endless opportunities of the universe. Very often, she real...
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- -: George Lakoff - Does Capitalism Always Lead to Democracy?
September 25, 2006 (over 17 years ago)Complete program at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=258 Liberal author and academic George Lakoff discusses a neoconservative concept he calls "Free Market Freedom," and describes its application to the current War in Iraq. ----- George Lakoff talks about "Whose Freedom: How the Right is...
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- -: Jonathan Paris - French vs. British Anti-Terrorism
April 25, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=870 Middle East and Islamic movement analyst Jonathan Paris contrasts French and British approaches to domestic anti-terrorism. ----- The Transatlantic Institute hosts Jonathan Paris, London-based Middle East and Islamic movement analyst...
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- -: William Neukom - What's So Bad About Lawyers?
September 14, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1486 William Neukom, current President of the American Bar Association, takes issue with the predominantly negative image the American public holds of lawyers and the U.S. legal system. ----- William Neukom discusses "Advancing the Rule o...
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- -: Religious Dissent and Criticism in Islamic Nations
December 18, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/10/30/Islamophobia Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Paul Marshall discusses harsh punishments faced by critics of Islam in many predominantly Muslim countries. ---- "The U.N.'s Racism Conference, 'Islamophobia,' and the Campaign to Crush Debate and Dissent ...
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- -: What Does It Mean to be "Pro-Choice?"
December 18, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/10/23/Abortion_Controversies Nancy Keenan, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, discusses the meaning of the term "pro-choice" as it relates to the abortion debate. ----- The Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School presents "The Abortion C...
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- -: Raymond Tallis - Free Will and the Brain
January 2, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/10/28/Battle_of_Ideas_My_Brain_Made_Me_Do_It British gerontologist, author and cultural critic Raymond Tallis addresses questions regarding free will and the brain. ----- "Battle of Ideas: My Brain Made Me Do It" at the 2007 Battle of Ideas conference hos...
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