- -: Why 'Freedom Fries' Never Stuck
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/26/Lera_Boroditsky_How_Language_Shapes_Thought Psychologist Lera Boroditsky digs into the linguistics of 'freedom fries' to understand why the patriotic phrase never quite took off with the general public. ----- Do the languages we speak shape the way ...
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- -: Cheney Bags Lawyer: The Art of Political Language
December 4, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/26/Lera_Boroditsky_How_Language_Shapes_Thought Using former Vice President Dick Cheney's 2006 quail hunting accident as an example, cognitive linguist Lera Boroditsky examines how carefully chosen language can affect an altered interpretation of real-wor...
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- -: The Oldest Living Thing on Earth? 500,000-Year-Old Bacteria
January 4, 2011 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/15/Rachel_Sussman_The_Worlds_Oldest_Living_Organisms Photographer Rachel Sussman presents an image of what is most likely the oldest living thing on planet Earth: a specimen of actinobacteria, found in Siberian permafrost. The bacteria are about 500,000 ...
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- -: Fixing Government: Does America Need a New Operating System?
February 5, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/01/18/Philip_K_Howard_Fixing_Broken_Government Common Good founder Philip K. Howard argues for a complete overhaul of United States bureaucracy. "America needs a new operating system," he says. Is it time for the U.S. to reboot? ----- Philip K. Howard is ...
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- -: What Drives Human Evolution and Innovation?
April 13, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/22/Matt_Ridley_Deep_Optimism Matt Ridley, journalist and author of The Rational Optimist, examines the driving force behind human evolution and technological innovation, especially over the past 100,000 years. Ridley argues the answer lies in the develop...
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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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- -: Did Geography Predetermine the Rise of the Western World?
May 2, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Historian Ian Morris examines how the transatlantic trade economy and the geography of those trade routes led to mathematical breakthroughs in the 17th century. Morris argues that the advancement of mathematics caused a chain reaction of innovative thought that culminated in industrial and scient...
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- -: Is Mass Extinction of Life on Earth Inevitable?
May 26, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/05/03/Tim_Flannery_Here_on_Earth Is it a natural characteristic of life on Earth to be self-destructive? Tim Flannery, author of Here on Earth, argues against Peter Ward's "Medea Hypothesis," which proposes that multicultural life is inherently suicidal. -...
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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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- -: The Virus as a Planetary Force
June 24, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/06/07/Carl_Zimmer_A_Planet_of_Viruses Carl Zimmer, author of A Planet of Viruses, reveals surprising information about how viruses interact with bacteria in the ocean, a process that possibly contributes to climate change. "Viruses are planetary forces," he...
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