- -: John Gray - Do Men and Women Deal with Stress Differently?
February 28, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/11/John_Gray_Why_Mars_and_Venus_Collide John Gray, bestselling author of "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus," argues that differences between men's and women's brains lead women to cope with stress differently than men. ----- John Gray talks abou...
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- -: Historian vs Futurist on Human Progress - Long Now Foundation
June 6, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/28/Niall_Ferguson_and_Peter_Schwartz_on_Human_Progress Historian Niall Ferguson debates futurist author Peter Schwartz on the overall nature of human progress. ----- Niall Ferguson and Peter Schwartz present Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress as ...
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- -: Our Chimp Ancestry - Frans Lanting and Christine Eckstrom
January 28, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Husband and wife team Frans Lanting and Christine Eckstrom describe their experiences, from eating termites to battling sweat flies, studying the fascinatingly sophisticated chimpanzees of Fongoli, Africa. EG is the celebration of the American entertainment industry. Since 1984, Richard Saul Wur...
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- -: Positive Selection: Is the Human Genome Evolving?
October 14, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/03/Dr_Katherine_Pollard_What_Makes_Us_Human UCSF biostatistics professor Dr. Katherine Pollard describes The Chimp Genome Project, which lists 15 genes associated with human diseases that originate in chimps. While some people have the "new human version...
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- -: Lactose Intolerance and the Evolution of Human Digestion
October 16, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/03/Dr_Katherine_Pollard_What_Makes_Us_Human Dr. Katherine Pollard, biostatistics professor at UCSF, illustrates how positive selection has enabled humans to process lactose and digest starch. She traces these mutations to certain ethnic and regional grou...
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- -: Why We Need Water - Peter Wothers
October 21, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/18/Peter_Wothers_Just_Add_Water Chemist Peter Wothers performs a small experiment to represent the human body's need for water. He explains that most of the body's chemical reactions in solution. ----- Water covers three quarters of our planet and make...
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- -: Richard Dawkins - Applying Darwinian Evolution to Physics
October 29, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/07/Richard_Dawkins_The_Greatest_Show_on_Earth Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins weighs the possibilities of the anthropic principle as it applies to physics. He also presents the theory that universes are bound to Darwinian selection, passing on tra...
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- -: The Evolution of Emotions - Dacher Keltner
November 19, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/08/Does_Darwin_Illuminate_Emotion_and_Spirituality Born to Be Good author Dacher Keltner introduces the Darwinian principle of antithesis, which attempts to explain body language. He relates the principle to strength, modesty, anger, love, spirituality, ...
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- -: Can We Adapt Our Way Through Climate Change? - Sander van der Leeuw
December 22, 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 explores the theory that humans will adapt when faced with an changing climate. "I don't think it's [climate change] bad for humanity, I think it's bad for our socie...
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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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