- -: The Gaming of Education
February 25, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/18/The_Great_Brain_Debate Media commentator Peter Williams argues that gaming can actually help kids learn and engage in their environment more deeply. Williams explains how games as varied as Donkey Kong and Fallout may have shaped his son's education a...
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- -: Why Was Darwin's 'Origin of Species' So Popular?
March 18, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/world_tech_summit_awards The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik discusses how Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" was able to find such a wide audience of mainstream readers. Gopnik argues that much of the book's effectiveness comes from Darwin'...
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- -: Catching Osama: What Should US Do If Bin Laden Is Caught?
April 26, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/04/09/Terrorism_A_Decade_After Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright weighs in on what the United States should do with Osama bin Laden should he ever be caught. Wright suggests having the al-Qaeda leader tried globally and then sentenced by Sharia ...
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- -: Kevin Kelly: Access Is Better Than Ownership
July 6, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/nextwork_conference_2011 Kevin Kelly, author and senior maverick at WIRED, notes a cultural shift where ownership of things becomes more burdensome than having access to what is "always there and always on." ----- Attention Flows: The Future of the Digi...
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- -: The World Bank's Commitment to Openness
August 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/nextwork_conference_2011 Shelley Leibowitz, chief information officer of the World Bank Group, explains that while the World Bank has historically been viewed as an exclusive, opaque organization, they are continuously working to be more open and cooperat...
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- -: Documenting Voices of the Disabled and Disenfranchised
September 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/09/08/Ensuring_the_Right_to_Vote_for_People_with_Disabilities Shantha Rau Barriga, disability rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, shares stories from handicapped and disabled persons that have been discriminated against in a civil context. "By document...
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- -: The Myth of the City in Global Slums
November 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/25/Cities_as_Solutions People originally moved to cities "to live longer, to live healthier," explains Carolyn Stephens, professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. But the result, she says, is often a risk trade-off between putting ...
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- -: White House Briefing on the Challenge of Alzheimer's Disease in the United States
September 29, 2010 (over 13 years ago)A meeting bringing together leading Alzheimer's disease advocates, researchers, health and long-term care experts, and others to commemorate World Alzheimer's Day.
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- -: Charlie Roe - China currency debate (10/13/11)
October 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Guest host Betty Liu of Bloomberg Television, Nouriel Roubini of New York University and Richard McGregor of the Financial Times on the China currency debate
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- -: Charlie Rose - Amos Oz (10/27/11)
October 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Israeli writer Amos Oz www.CharlieRose.com
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