- -: Richard Dawkins: Who Was the First Human?
October 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 Biologist and author Richard Dawkins presents a thought experiment to explain human origins. Following each generation backwards across millions of years of evolution, Dawkins shows why no species -- including homo sapiens -- ...
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- -: Why Wall Street's Imploding, and Main Street's Improving
October 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 James Suroweicki discusses a "dramatic difference" between service industries where principal-agent conflicts are pervasive, and industries focused on manufactured goods. In the former, Surowiecki notes, agents are becoming ex...
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- -: Is Capital Punishment Color Blind?
October 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 Danalynn Recer, founder and executive director of the Gulf Region Advocacy Center, discusses accusations that race affects sentencing in death penalty cases. She suggests that while the prosecutors may not intentionally take r...
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- -: A Diet of Masterpieces Makes You Fat: The Virtues of Bad Art
October 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl sits down with Steve Martin to discuss the merits of bad art. "You learn from good art that you can't do it," Schjeldahl says, "and from bad art you see where it breaks." ----- The New ...
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- -: Malcolm Gladwell: Creative Solutions to Prevent Crime
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 Author Malcolm Gladwell discusses the importance of creativity in addressing crime prevention. America focuses mainly on the severity of a punishment, he notes, while neglecting that deterrence is also affected by the certaint...
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- -: War Journalism: Meeting a Warlord on the Pakistani Border
October 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dexter Filkins recalls his meeting with a tribal warlord on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. ----- The New Yorker Festival presents: Reporting from the Edge: Covering Conflict. This program ...
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- -: What Are Your Odds of Winning the New Yorker Caption Contest?
November 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor for The New Yorker, discusses The Cartoon Caption Contest and it's lasting impression on popular culture. Mankoff compares the number of entrants vs. the number of winners and highlights the char...
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