- -: How to Talk End-of-Life Care with a Dying Patient - Atul Gawande
October 12, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2010 Practicing surgeon Atul Gawande discusses the four important parts of talking with terminally ill patients about their end-of-life care. Rather than pressing patients to make hard decisions, Gawande emphasizes the impo...
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- -: Talent or Chance? The Luck of a 'Good Face'
October 13, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2010 Journalist James Surowiecki examines the correlation between good looks and stature with success in business and leadership roles, as explored in the story about baseball player Billy Beane's "good face" in the Michael...
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- -: Jonah Lehrer on the Surprising Benefits of Daydreaming
October 16, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2010 Author and WIRED contributing editor Jonah Lehrer discusses the surprising benefits of daydreaming, and questions whether ubiquitous access to the Internet negatively affects the ability to let one's mind wander. "Now,...
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- -: Writers on Writing: Fiction vs Nonfiction
October 18, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2010 Authors Michael Chabon and Zadie Smith weigh in on whether they prefer writing fiction or non-fiction. Chabon explains why he leans toward fiction, while Smith discusses her preference for sticking to the facts. -----...
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- -: Travels in Siberia: Ian Frazier's Mosquito 'Agony'
October 19, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2010 New Yorker humorist Ian Frazier describes the various hardships of travelling outdoors through swampy Siberia, including mosquitoes "like they were shot at you from a fire hose." "The food had a lot of mosquitoes in it...
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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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- -: Lorrie Moore: Why Reading Is Vital
March 30, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2010 Author Lorrie Moore discusses the importance of reading literature. She argues that, while watching a good movie is better than reading a bad book, the power of the written word remains unmatched. ----- This excerpt ...
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- -: Nancy Pelosi: 'Workers Are People, Too'
October 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi discusses "class warfare" at The New Yorker Festival 2011. In response to a recent quip from a Republican Presidential candidate that "corporations are people," Pelosi counters, "Workers are ...
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- -: International Espionage: Do the Ends Justify the Means?
October 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/01/Sleuths_Watching_the_Detectives Robert Baer shares his experience as an undercover CIA operative, and discusses whether covert actions taken in the name of security justify the personal sacrifice for agents and political risk for the nation. ----- T...
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- -: What Makes a Good Film Adaptation?
October 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jeffrey Eugenides discusses the process of adapting a book into a film. A book "radically changes once it becomes visual. It's no longer a book, and to try to insist on it being a book will usua...
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