- -: TEDxUVM 2011 - Gary Johnson - Modelling Ecosystem Services under Uncertainty with ARIES
November 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)GARY JOHNSON Gary Johnson models the spatial flow of services from ecosystems to people and changes to these services by different management scenarios. His research interests include ecosystem service modelling and simulation, network flow optimization and substitutability, hierarchical modellin...
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- -: Organ Farms? Super-Predators? Cloning Myths, Debunked
March 13, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/07/How_to_Defeat_Your_Own_Clone Kyle Kurpinski and Terry Johnson, authors of How to Defeat Your Own Clone, discuss common misconceptions about genetic engineering. Kurpinski debunks the idea that genetic engineering will lead to super-predators, while Jo...
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- -: Elysia Chlorotica: A Sap-Sucking, Solar-Powered Sea Slug
May 25, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/05/Sneaky_Sea_Slugs_Three_Tales_of_Tidepool_Thievery Dr. Rebecca Johnson, invertebrate zoologist at the California Academy of Sciences, introduces Elysia chlorotica, a sea slug with interesting eating habits. The sap-sucking sea slug has evolved to under...
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- -: Doing Nothing: Sometimes, the Best Foreign Policy?
July 23, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/12/Frank_Gavin_Five_Ways_to_Use_History_Well Historian Frank Gavin uses Lyndon Johnson's response to the Chinese nuclear program in 1964 as an example of how a policy of doing nothing is sometimes the wisest move. He wonders if a similar tactic with Iran...
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- -: Ted Sorensen: JFK Wouldn't Have Sent Combat Troops to Vietnam
July 28, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/17/Theodore_Sorensen_JFKs_Most_Trusted_Advisor Ted Sorensen, speech writer for President John F. Kennedy, speculates on how the late president would have handled the Vietnam War. "I don't think he would have sent combat troop divisions to South Vietnam, ...
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- -: Where Good Ideas Come From - Steven Johnson
October 29, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/11/Steven_Johnson_Where_Good_Ideas_Come_From Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From (http://f4a.tv/eyWlqm), discusses a Stanford study that found unusually innovative professionals to have relatively diverse networks of acquaintances. He r...
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- -: Willy Wonka vs. Wikipedia: Apple's Model of Innovation
November 10, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/11/Steven_Johnson_Where_Good_Ideas_Come_From In Where Good Ideas Come From, author Steven Johnson argues that collaboration is at the core of innovation. But does Apple's closed-off, "Willy Wonka" model of development shoot holes in that argument? Johns...
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- -: What Can Singapore Teach US Innovators?
May 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/24/Innovation_Circulation_Frugal_Engineering_Comes_Home Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_innovation Reflecting on Singapore's highly successful economy, Dr. Curtis Carlson, president and CEO of SRI International, outlin...
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- -: All the President's Pens
March 24, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Why do presidents use so many pens to sign legislation? White House Staff Secretary Lisa Brown explains.
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Doris Kearns: Learning from Past Presidents
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Doris Kearns recounts the lives of two past US prsidents and shares her own experiences to define what life should all be about.
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