- -: Finding Joy in Sustainable Living - Leslie Hoffman
April 7, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/19/Fast_Life_Slow_Fashion_A_New_Theory_of_Fashion Earth Pledge president Leslie Hoffman argues that modern life discourages thinking about the origins or effects of everyday consumption. "A New York kid could think that food comes from a waiter," she say...
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- -: Designing Your Perfect Work Day - Craig Nathanson
July 30, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/13/Craig_Nathanson_Dont_Just_Retire__Die Vocational coach Craig Nathanson leads an exercise in planning "your perfect vocational day," including ideal activities, work settings, and associates. He explains that the key to living an authentic life is lear...
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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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- -: Ray Kurzweil: How Far to Immortality?
March 23, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/world_tech_summit_awards Author, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil explains that even though immortality may seem a far-off goal, it could be achievable by people who are alive today. He argues that immortality will come not from a silver bu...
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- -: Martha Stewart's Omnimedia Embraces iPad Revolution
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/wired_business_conference_2011 Martha Stewart discusses how her company Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has responded to the iPad/tablet revolution. "You must invest in the future if you want to be in the future," says Stewart. ----- Brand M...
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- -: Joshua Foer: Using Memory to Prolong Your (Perceived) Life
June 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/14/Joshua_Foer_Moonwalking_with_Einstein "Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it," reads Joshua Foer from his book, Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, explaining that creating more worthwhile memories can lengt...
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- -: Neil deGrasse Tyson: Earth Is Bad for Life
August 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/19/Neil_DeGrasse_Tyson_Death_by_Black_Hole Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson argues Earth is not as an ideal environment for the existence of life as most people commonly think. "99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct," says Tyson. "T...
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- -: The City as a Scalable Network
November 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/25/Growth_Innovation_and_the_Accelerating_Pace_of_Life New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santa Fe differ historically, geographically, and culturally, but are there qualities that are universal to cities across the globe? Theoretical physicist Ge...
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Jaime Lerner: Jaime Lerner Sings of the City
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Jaime Lerner talks about how a city could be transformed and put back together to help the environmemt through his wit and his voice.
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