- -: The Power of Suggestion: How to Implant False Memories
August 6, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/14/Elizabeth_Loftus_Whats_the_Matter_with_Memory Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus discusses studying the power of suggestion, including implanting false memories in test subjects. After three suggestive interviews, Loftus found she was able to convince subj...
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- -: Proof You Went Psychotic Last Night - Matt Walker
August 19, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/11/Matt_Walker_Secrets_of_the_Sleeping_Brain#Proof_You_Went_Psychotic_Last_Night UC Berkeley professor Matt Walker describes the different stages of sleep and jokes that everyone suffers a nightly bout of psychosis during the REM stage. ----- Why do we...
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- -: Does the Soul Exist? - Robert Burton
October 8, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/12/04/The_Atheon_A_Temple_of_Science_for_Rational_Belief Dr. Burton raises the issue of whether the brain and the mind are one in the same. Do humans have souls? Do we have an essence as human beings, or are we physical? ----- Is the future of religion sc...
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- -: Do Animals Grieve for the Dead? - Bernie Krause
October 8, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/22/Dr_Bernie_Krause_The_Great_Animal_Orchestra Dr. Bernie Krause, creator of Wild Sanctuary, argues that animals may posses a degree of emotional depth by playing a sorrowful call from a male beaver after its entire family was killed by humans. "The worl...
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- -: How A College Class Can Change Your Life - Paul Farmer
October 9, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/21/Reflections_on_Leadership_for_Social_Change Dr. Paul Farmer, Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, describes the "unbroken chain of events" that led him to his work in Haiti. He explains that he wanted to be a physician until he took...
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- -: Does the Internet Discourage Deep Thinking?
June 25, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/06/23/Nicholas_Carr_Is_Google_Making_Us_Stupid Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows, asserts that the kind of intensive, repetitive activity people engage in online encourages a culture of short attention spans and easy distraction. "There's no reward for ...
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- -: Richard Dreyfuss: Technology Has 'Killed Time'
July 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/19/Richard_Dreyfuss_Improving_Civic_Education Actor and activist Richard Dreyfuss worries that computing and broadcast technology have effectively removed time from our collective decision-making process. "We no longer ruminate, contemplate, think things...
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- -: Watson's Jeopardy Win: A False Victory for AI?
April 28, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_innovation Is artificial intelligence on the march? Willow Garage CEO Steve Cousins says the recent victory of IMB's supercomputer Watson over two human contestants on the quiz show "Jeopardy!" did not advance technology to the e...
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- -: Did Geography Predetermine the Rise of the Western World?
May 2, 2011 (almost 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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- -: Does Email Make Workers Less Efficient?
May 5, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_innovation Justine Thody presents study results that detail the impacts of digital distractions on productivity in the workplace. Thody emphasizes that even in the age of Twitter and Facebook, email remains the greatest culprit. ...
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