- -: Big Picture on Climate Change: Think Prehistoric - Wayne Clough
September 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/17/Wayne_Clough__Smithsonian_Forever Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, describes what fossils can reveal about ancient periods of global warming. ----- The Smithsonian Institution is the largest museum and research complex in the ...
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- -: Remembering Old Hollywood - Frank Pierson
September 2, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/07/Writer_Director_Frank_Pierson_on_Hollywood_and_Cinema Writer / director Frank Pierson reminisces about old Hollywood, USA. ----- Frank Pierson on Hollywood and Cinema. Recorded in collaboration with the Chautauqua Institution, on August 7, 2009. Fr...
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- -: Studying the 'Deep Rhythms' of Climate Change - Wayne Clough
September 9, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/17/Wayne_Clough__Smithsonian_Forever Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, argues that one of the keys to surviving climate change is to learn from similar events in history, explaining "reality is much more complex than even the most s...
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- -: Modern Democracy's Roots in Early Islam? - John Keane
September 22, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/24/John_Keane_Whats_So_Good_About_Democracy Although the Greeks lay claim to the creation of democracy, author John Keane traces its origin back to Mesopotamia - an area that now includes Iraq and Iran. He also claims that early Muslims may have practice...
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- -: History Comes Alive When You're a Traveler - Rick Steves
November 6, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/28/Rick_Steves_Travel_As_a_Political_Act Travel guru Rick Steves introduces one of his favorite parts of travel: incorporating history into tourist activities. Steves argues that many tourists are shielded from history by a travel industry that makes mor...
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- -: From Poison to Cow Dung: A History of Philosophers' Deaths
November 7, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/09/Simon_Critchley_To_Philosophize_is_to_Learn_How_to_Die From suicide by a love potion to suffocating in cow dung, Simon Critchley gives a brief history of the deaths of famous philosophers -- stories he describes as "weirdness, madness, suicide, murde...
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- -: How Did Early Humans Survive Climate Change? - Sander van der Leeuw
December 28, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/v/c11292 Archaeologist Sander van der Leeuw says one way ancient humans survived periods of climate instability was to stay below the environment's carrying capacity. The only areas that experienced regular famine, he explains, were those abundant in natural res...
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- -: Crossing San Francisco Bay: A Bridge Is Born
December 29, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/12/04/Rick_Prelinger_Lost_Landscapes_of_San_Francisco_4 Archivist Rick Prelinger shows found film of San Francisco's Bay Bridge from various periods during its construction and shortly after its completion. Footage includes a trip across the bridge on the r...
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- -: Is Constant Innovation Dangerous? See Ancient Rome
December 31, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/18/Sander_van_der_Leeuw_The_Archaeology_of_Innovation Archaeologist Sander van der Leeuw discusses the dangers of constant innovation. "Every innovation creates a cascade of new challenges," he says, which shifts a society's focus to short-term thinking....
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- -: Justice Scalia: Why Should Judges Dictate Natural Law?
January 4, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/22/Justice_Antonin_Scalia_on_Globalization_and_the_Law Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argues that the people of a democracy, not judges, should bear the responsibility to decide on issues of natural law like abortion and sodomy. "Why are judges exp...
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