- -: Is City Living Bad for Your Brain?
July 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/06/27/Peter_Kareiva_Conservation_in_the_Real_World Peter Kareiva, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, cites a recent study that compared the brains of people living in rural areas to those living in cities. Interestingly, those living in rural areas...
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- -: Mobile Technology: The New Face of Conservation?
July 21, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/06/27/Peter_Kareiva_Conservation_in_the_Real_World Peter Kareiva, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, discusses how mobile technology and social networks can be leveraged to foster climate change awareness and inspire the next generation of conserva...
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- -: Communicating with Aliens: A Complicated Science
July 22, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/02/Martin_Rees_Lifes_Future_in_the_Cosmos Does intelligent life exist on other worlds? If so, how would we communicate with it? Astrophysicist Martin Rees discusses the complicated science of contacting extraterrestrial species. ----- President of the ...
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- -: Is Society on the Verge of Collapse?
August 10, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/07/25/Why_Cities_Grow_Corporations_Die_and_Life_Gets_Faster Theoretical physicist Geoffrey B. West discusses the implications of a society that defines success as perpetual exponential growth. West suggests that a collapse may be as inevitable as a heart at...
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- -: Geoffrey West: Government Needs More Scientists, Fewer Economists
August 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/07/25/Why_Cities_Grow_Corporations_Die_and_Life_Gets_Faster Theoretical physicist Geoffrey B. West offers his view on TARP bailouts for "too big to fail" banks, and on the general state of scientific thinking in government. "The people making decisions rare...
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- -: Predicting Urban Crime? There's an Equation for That
August 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/07/25/Why_Cities_Grow_Corporations_Die_and_Life_Gets_Faster Theoretical physicist Geoffrey B. West discusses his work developing a model to formulate predictions about a city based solely on its size. His equations can predict "mundane" properties like the ...
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