- -: 'Libertarian Paternalism': Guiding Without Coercion - Philip Collins
February 11, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/01/Nudge_Nudge_Nag_Nag_The_New_Politics_of_Behavior Tony Blair speechwriter Philip Collins examines concepts presented in the book Nudge, which advocates a "libertarian paternalism" based on the principles of behavioral economics. While the concept may s...
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- -: Joseph Stiglitz: Smith's "Invisible Hand" a Myth?
March 8, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/22/Joseph_Stiglitz_Freefall Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz challenges the influential teachings of 18th-century economist Adam Smith, citing flaws with Smith's metaphor of an "invisible hand" guiding the free market. "The reason the invisible hand of...
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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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- -: Cities That Pre-Date Religion: Real Estate and Human Civilization - Stewart Brand
March 17, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/01/Long-Term_Thinking_in_the_Next_10000_Years Why are there so many histories of architecture, but none of real estate? Futurist Stewart Brand discusses the central role that land has played throughout human civilization. ----- Long Finance is an initi...
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- -: Data.gov: Hacker Culture Takes Over Government?
March 18, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/04/Beth_Noveck_Transparent_Government The Open Government Initiative's Beth Noveck discusses Data.gov, the Obama administration's attempt to make government more transparent. While conspiracy theorists dominated the initiative's early days, Noveck says t...
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- -: What's Behind the Planet X Conspiracy? Photoshop and Imagination
May 11, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/24/David_Morrison_Surviving_2012_and_Other_Cosmic_Disasters NASA astronomer David Morrison debunks conspiracy theories surrounding the "discovery" of Planet X, or Nibiru. Photoshop and a creative imagination, Morrison explains, lead many to believe in th...
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- -: Moon Landing Hoax? How Faith Blocks Reason
May 17, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/24/Dr_Eugenie_C_Scott_Science_and_Skepticism Dr. Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, distinguishes between empirically based knowledge and "revealed knowledge," or knowledge gathered from a higher power. She us...
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- -: Megafauna Extinction: Did Humans or Climate Kill Off the Mammoths?
May 27, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/18/Dr_Elizabeth_Hadly_Mammals_and_Climate_Change Stanford biologist Elizabeth Hadly recaps a debate among biologists over whether prehistoric megafauna like mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats became extinct due to overhunting by humans, or by ...
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- -: Does Sci-Fi Influence the Future?
February 8, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/world_tech_summit_awards Tech Nation's Moira Gunn and science fiction author Paul Levinson explore the influence of sci-fi on technological breakthroughs of the future, from space exploration to time travel. ----- On November 30th and Decemb...
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- -: Vincent Bugliosi: Why Did Oswald Assassinate JFK?
August 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/05/15/Vincent_Bugliosi_Reclaiming_History In this highlight from May 2007, "Reclaiming History" author Vincent Bugliosi discusses what he believes may have been Lee Harvey Oswald's motive to assassinate John F. Kennedy. Rather than acting out a personal att...
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