- -: Amartya Sen on Jeremy Bentham and Natural Rights
June 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/asil_harmony_dissonance Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen critiques the views of Jeremy Bentham, influential English philosopher and legal theorist, on the concept of natural rights. ----- The American Society of International Law Pr...
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- -: DNA: The Living Record of Humanity's Journey
June 16, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_information Dr. Spencer Wells, explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society, describes his work examining human origins not through skeletal records, but rather by analyzing DNA. ----- The Ideas Economy: Information is a fr...
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- -: Your Genes: More Virus than Human
June 21, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/06/07/Carl_Zimmer_A_Planet_of_Viruses Science journalist Carl Zimmer explains how viral infections throughout history have affected the human genome. Viruses make up "about 8 or 9 percent" of our genome says Zimmer. Startlingly, human childbirth would not b...
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- -: Will Computers Ever Understand Emotion?
July 15, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/05/19/James_Gleick_Bits_and_Bytes As computers become more advanced, there are fewer and fewer things that people are able to do that computers are not. But, author James Gleick argues, while computers are currently both "surprisingly good" and "surprisingl...
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- -: Testosterone and Crime: What Can Genes Tell Us About Behavior?
August 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/04/13/Steve_Jones_Nature_Nurture_or_Neither Evolutionary biologist Steve Jones notes that genes responsible for circulating testosterone in men are also to blame for most violent and criminal behavior. He argues, however, that the environment in which a per...
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- -: Hugh Mackay on the Human Desire to Be Taken Seriously
August 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/22/Hugh_Mackay_What_Makes_Us_Tick Hugh Mackay, author of What Makes Us Tick?, examines how the desire to be taken seriously affects human behavior. "If we're not taken seriously enough it usually brings out the worst in us," says Mackay. "Much anger in h...
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- -: Documenting Voices of the Disabled and Disenfranchised
September 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/09/08/Ensuring_the_Right_to_Vote_for_People_with_Disabilities Shantha Rau Barriga, disability rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, shares stories from handicapped and disabled persons that have been discriminated against in a civil context. "By document...
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- -: Is Rwandan President Kagame on a Path to Another Crisis?
September 30, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/09/19/Myth_and_Reality_After_the_Rwanda_Genocide Former Rwandan Ambassador to the United States Theogene Rudasingwa observes that the ruling party of President Kagame, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, is exhibiting behaviors characteristic of previous regimes t...
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- -: Richard Dawkins: Who Was the First Human?
October 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 Biologist and author Richard Dawkins presents a thought experiment to explain human origins. Following each generation backwards across millions of years of evolution, Dawkins shows why no species -- including homo sapiens -- ...
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- -: Microbiome: The Ecosystems Living on Your Body
November 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/25/The_Dark_Matter_of_Biology As Dr. Seuss once said, "A creature's a creature, no matter how small" - and, according to UC Davis biologist Jonathan Eisin, this applies to the ecosystems of microbes that live on the human body. ----- IDEAS THAT ACCELER...
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