- -: The Truth About 'Free-Range' Eggs - Jonathan Safran Foer
January 7, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/12/01/Jonathan_Safran_Foer_Eating_Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals, claims agribusiness is guilty of "the worst kind of manipulation." He says the lies range from leading people to believe there's a "well funded" anti-meat lobby to app...
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- -: Factory Farming: Inefficient and Inhumane? - Jonathan Safran Foer
January 11, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/12/01/Jonathan_Safran_Foer_Eating_Animals Eating Animals author Jonathan Safran Foer criticizes factory farming as inhumane and inefficient. "Nothing would be better for world hunger than if we stopped eating meat," he says. "We are now feeding...our farmed...
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- -: Tech Key to Obama Victory, Says Campaign Manager Plouffe
March 16, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/23/David_Plouffe_The_Audacity_to_Win David Plouffe, Barack Obama's chief campaign manager during the 2008 presidential campaign, describes the role technology played in their victory. He explains that while leveraging social media and online video were i...
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- -: The Business of Happiness: Does Empathy Lead to Success?
April 6, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/24/Ted_Leonsis_The_Business_Of_Happiness Sports and media mogul Ted Leonsis discusses the links between empathy, happiness and success, using New York's "Subway Hero" as an example. He extends this principle to business. "Happiness wasn't mentioned a sin...
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- -: Can a $50 Solution Save Archaeological Sites?
April 22, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/07/Who_Protects_Antiquity Archaeologist Lawrence Coben suggests creative solutions for preserving archaeological sites with little or no police protection. "You don't have to throw a lot of money," he says, outlining how a $50 gate for a monumental Inca ...
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- -: Nouriel Roubini: Time to Close the 'Financial Supermarkets'
June 2, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/13/Nouriel_Roubini_A_Crash_Course_in_the_Future_of_Finance NYU economist Nouriel Roubini argues that "too big to fail" bailouts of banking institutions should be followed-up by breaking these companies into smaller, more manageable divisions. Roubini arg...
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- -: USA vs England: The World Cup Game 60 Years in the Making
June 11, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/06/01/The_Glorious_World_Cup_A_Fanatics_Guide Reflecting on the USA's famous victory over England in the 1950 World Cup, soccer columnist Alan Black looks ahead to the two teams' highly anticipated June 12, 2010 rematch. "If [the Americans] play with their ...
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- -: Gladwell on Income Inequality: We're Off the Rails
October 9, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2010 Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell discusses America's dramatically changing notions of wealth and income inequality since the mid-20th century. Gladwell notes that top-earning Americans faced a 91% income tax rate d...
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- -: The First Technology? Humanity Itself
December 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/03/Kevin_Kelly_What_Technology_Wants In defining the corpus of technological invention as "the technium," Kevin Kelly defines humanity itself as the first technology, declaring that we created ourselves. "We are the created and the creator," says Kelly. ...
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- -: Can the Earth Feed a Population of 9 Billion People?
April 16, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/22/Matt_Ridley_Deep_Optimism Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, looks at past rates of food production to explain why it should eventually be possible to produce enough food to feed a global population of 9 billion people. ----- Via trade an...
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