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Making on a Budget: Adam Savage Goes Dumpster Diving
Complete video available for free at: fora.tv Adam Savage, co-host of Mythbusters, traces his making routes to advice young makers how to make using found and discarded materials. ----- Maker Faire Bay Area 2012 presents Adam Savage: Why We Must Make Cool Things. This program was recorded on May 20, 2012. For more videos from this event, visit: fora.tv Maker Faire Bay Area 2012 is a showcase of creativity and cool technology that celebrates the maker mindset. It's inspiring, stimulating, and fun for all ages. Every year there are first-time makers as well as favorites returning with something new. Learn all about 3D printers and Arduino, interact with robots, lasers, laser cutters, and Tesla coils. You'll be amazed by the ingenuity and creativity of maker projects— especially those by young makers! Maker Faire is a weekend filled with an incredible variety of exhibits, talks, demonstrations, and performances bridging arts, crafts, science and engineering—most of them hands-on and all of them engaging. Maker Faire is a reflection of our community at its very best. Adam Savage is an American industrial design and special effects designer/fabricator, actor, educator, and co-host of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters.
James Dyson on Failure, Engineering, and College Grads
Watch the complete video for free at fora.tv Industrial designer James Dyson discusses his design philosophy of 'lean engineering,' the practice of making products lighter, cheaper, and more efficiently. Dyson models this philosophy to his design team - recent graduates who have no fear of failure. ---- On May 1, 2012, WIRED gathered a dynamic audience of today's thought-leaders for groundbreaking discussions on disruptive business practices, ideas, and innovations.
Criminal Intent and Predicting the Mental State of Others
Complete video at: fora.tv Dr. Dorothy Cheney, an expert on primate social behavior and communication, examines the human trait of predicting the mental state of others. Cheney uses the example of the Murdoch phone hacking incident as an example to illustrate criminal intent. ----- Studies on both animals and humans have shown definitively that individuals who are able to establish strong social bonds experience better health and higher offspring survival. It seems likely that natural selection has also favored the cognitive abilities to monitor and manage social relationships. There is growing evidence that monkeys and other animals are adept at recognizing other individuals' social relationships and dominance ranks. At the same time, there are also many fundamental differences between animal social cognition and the social cognition of humans. Dr. Dorothy Cheney is an expert on primate social behavior, communication, cognition. In 1977, together with her husband and collaborator Robert Seyfarth, she began an 11 year field study of vervet monkeys in Kenya, which led to the publication of How Monkeys See the World. From 1992 through 2007 Dr. Cheney and Dr. Seyfarth studied baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. In 2007, they published Baboon Metaphysics.
People, Not Brands, Drive Commerce on Facebook
Complete video at: fora.tv 8thBridge CEO Wade Gerten judges the success of e-commerce campaigns, and gives early Facebook's "f-commerce" an "F". A success story, Gerten cites Delta Airlines as a brand enabling Facebook's social experience to drive commerce. ----- WADE GERTEN Chief Executive Officer, 8thBridge Keeping pace with today's apparel, beauty, and retail business requires staying ahead of the latest technological trends. The 2012 Winter Session of the WWD Digital Forum will address every aspect of business in the digital space—from mobile technology to social-media marketing strategies to e-commerce opportunities. Hosted by WWD editors, the event will feature actionable information, interactive discussions, and opportunities to network with industry peers, and will provide you with the knowledge and tools required to compete in today's tech-driven marketing landscape. Wade is 8thBridge's Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Wade was most recently the Vice President of Product Strategy for Oracle Retail. Best Buy, Walmart, Tesco, Nordstrom, Carrefour and over 200 other leading global retailers accelerated their business growth with merchandise optimization solutions developed under Wade Gerten's leadership during his 10 year tenure at Retek and Oracle Retail. Wade helped grow Retek from 20 employees in 1995 to the largest retail-specific enterprise software company. Retek was acquired by Oracle in 2005 for $630 million
The Golden Gate Bridge: Vintage Footage from the Prelinger Archive
Complete video available for free at fora.tv Rick Prelinger, head of the Prelinger Archive, presents vintage footage of San Francisco's world-famous Golden Gate Bridge. ---- Rick Prelinger, a guerrilla archivist who collects the uncollected and makes it accessible, presents the fifth of his annual Lost Landscapes of San Francisco screenings. You'll see an eclectic montage of rediscovered and rarely-seen film clips showing life, landscapes, labor and leisure in a vanished San Francisco as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers. New material this year will include test flights over the unbuilt dunes of the Sunset District, Prohibition-era libertines partying in Golden Gate Park and drinking in their cars, lost travelogues and scenes from San Francisco countercultures. Suzanne Ramsey, aka Kitten on the Keys, will be back to open for Rick again this year; she will regale us with vintage tunes and a vivacious style that has entertained crowds from here in San Francisco to the Cannes Film Festival.
Raspberry Pi: Making Computer Programming Accessible
Watch the complete video for free at fora.tv Eben Upton, co-founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, discusses the inspiration behind developing the $25 pocket-sized computer. He explains that his goal was to make it easy for kids to learn to program at home, arguing "I don't think you learn to program in two hours a week in a lesson at school, I think you learn to program in four hours a night at home." ---- A lively panel discussion comprised of the founder of Raspberry Pi Eben Upton, everyone's favorite modder Ben Heck, Matt Richardson from MAKE magazine and a California education professional who can speak to the Maker movement in the classroom. Ben Heckendorn is a graphic artist turned internet celebrity, famed in the world of electronics "modding". From hits like his Bill Paxton pinball machine to the in-demand XBOX 360 Laptop, Ben is known for hacking-in-to pop culture's biggest gadgets and giving them his own unique and playful spin. He is also the host of the popular online television series The Ben Heck Show, which is now entering it's second season. Matt Richardson is a Brooklyn-based technophile, maker of things, artist, photographer, video producer, and creative technology consultant. Eben Upton is a founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and is responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi device. In his day job, he works for Broadcom as an ASIC architect and general troublemaker.
Bing Gordon: Gamification Origin & Rise of Bioinformation
Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv Video game executive Bing Gordon talks about the role of gamification in tech sectors. ---- What new trends will emerge in the next several years? Find out at one of the Churchill Club's most anticipated events of the year: the 14th Annual Top 10 Tech Trends debate. Be sure to get your seat as we welcome some of the techno-industries' leading (and most opinionated) luminaries as they evaluate predictions for the years ahead. Our distinguished panel will rate and debate the trends. And our usual live audience of Silicon Valley's best and brightest—all with opinions of your own—will be asked to agree or disagree.
Kevin Efrusy: Big Data Can Be Garbage
Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv Kevin Efrusy of Excel Partners argues that big data might have some limitations. ---- What new trends will emerge in the next several years? Find out at one of the Churchill Club's most anticipated events of the year: the 14th Annual Top 10 Tech Trends debate. Be sure to get your seat as we welcome some of the techno-industries' leading (and most opinionated) luminaries as they evaluate predictions for the years ahead. Our distinguished panel will rate and debate the trends. And our usual live audience of Silicon Valley's best and brightest—all with opinions of your own—will be asked to agree or disagree. Kevin Efrusy joined Accel in 2003. His background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP/SaaS pioneer which went public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he built and served as the first CEO of IronPlanet, an online marketplace for heavy equipment with current annual gross sales over $500M. Prior to KPCB, Kevin worked at Zip2 and Bain & Company.
Daniel Pink Defines 'Disruption'
Watch the complete video for free at fora.tv Daniel Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind, expands on the standard definition of 'disruption.' "Disruption is giving the world something it didn't know it didn't have," says Pink. ---- Daniel Pink is the author of four best-selling books on the changing world of work. His most recent is Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which draws on behavioral research to challenge conventional thinking on how companies can get the best out of their employees. Others include A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need, and Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself. A free agent himself, Pink held his last real job in the White House, where he served from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore. He also worked as an aide to Labor Secretary Robert Reich. Pink is a contributing editor of Wired.
FORA.tv Interview with Christopher Hitchens
Original video at: fora.tv Bestselling author and journalist Christopher Hitchens speaks with FORA.tv founder Brian Gruber. This program was recorded prior to an event featuring Mr. Hitchens at City Arts & Lectures in San Francisco, CA, on May 23, 2007. Christopher Hitchens is an author, journalist and literary critic. Now living in Washington, DC, he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Nation and Slate; additionally, he is an occasional contributor to many other publications. Hitchens is most recently the author of "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything."
Quantum Computers and Parallel Universes
Complete video at: fora.tv Marcus Chown, author of Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe, discusses the mechanics behind quantum computers, explaining that they function by having atoms exist in multiple places at once. He predicts that quantum computers will be produced within 20 years. ----- The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einsteins general theory of relativity. Together, they explain virtually everything about the world in which we live. But almost a century after their advent, most people havent the slightest clue what either is about. Radio astronomer, award-winning writer and broadcaster Marcus Chown talks to fellow stargazer Fred Watson about his book Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You. - Australian Broadcasting Corporation Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, he is now cosmology consultant of the weekly science magazine New Scientist. The Magic Furnace, Marcus' second book, was chosen in Japan as one of the Books of the Year by Asahi Shimbun. In the UK, the Daily Mail called it "a dizzy page-turner with all the narrative devices you'd expect to find in Harry Potter". His latest book is called Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You.
"Do You Want to Live to Be 1000?" and Why That's a Stupid Question
Complete video at: fora.tv Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey says although he doesn't know whether or not he would want to live to be 1000 (or even 100) years old, he does know that he would like to be able to make the choice when the time comes. "It's not about longevity," insists de Grey. ----- Can we live to be 250 ... and beyond? Impossible? Not necessarily according to Aubrey de Grey, scientist, editor-in-chief of the journal Rejuvenation Research and co-author of the 2007 book Ending Aging. His ideas challenge the most basic assumption that aging is inevitable. He argues instead that aging is a disease — one that can be cured if it's approached as "an engineering problem." His plan calls for forestalling disease and eventually radically pushing back death. Presented by Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation. Much more than a conference, the IdeaFestival is a catalyst for high-speed innovation, product development, and creative endeavors. This series of events attracts leading thinkers and curious minds from across the nation and around the globe.
Slavoj Zizek: The Delusion of Green Capitalism
Complete video at: fora.tv Philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues environmentally conscious consumers are desperate for simple tasks they can perform to alleviate their guilt, so they do things like purchase overpriced organic produce. Zizek also highlights Starbucks, which he suggests attracts customers by appealing to their sense of altruism. ----- The Committee on Globalization and Social Change will launch with a special lecture by philosopher and critic Slavoj Zizek who will speak on "The Situation Is Catastrophic, but Not Serious." This alleged message of the Austrian military headquarters during WWI renders perfectly our attitude towards the ongoing crisis: we are aware of the looming (ecological, social) catastrophes, but we somehow don't take them seriously. What ideology sustains such an attitude? The Committee on Globalization and Social Change (CGSC) is an interdisciplinary working group composed of a core group of CUNY faculty interested in reflecting on globalization as an analytic category for understanding social change. Slavoj Zizek, born 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Senior Researcher at Birkbeck College, University of London, is a Hegelian Philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, Christian atheist, Communist political activist, and he thinks these four features are four aspects of one and the same Cause. His latest publications are: in philosophy The Parallax View, in psychoanalysis How to Read Lacan, in theology The Monstrosity of Christ, and in politics Living at ...
Fred Wilson: "Everybody Is a Pirate, So Fix the System"
Complete video at fora.tv Fred Wilson, managing partner at Union Square Ventures, passionately argues that "everybody is a pirate" of copyrighted digital content because internet content isn't convenient for consumption. The content delivery system is flawed, he believes, and "in a world where everybody is breaking the law, you got to look at the law: is it the right law?" ---- In the wake of the uproar among the technology and entertainment industries over the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's Protect IP Act (PIPA), the search for common ground and a way forward is more urgent than ever. Join NBCUniversal's Richard Cotton and Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson for an open conversation on imagining a digital world in which content creators and tech innovators can thrive and flourish. Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Wilson has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He blogs at avc.com.
Richard Dawkins: Who Was the First Human?
Complete video at: fora.tv 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 -- can truly be said to have a "first" ancestor. ----- What Is Reality? Richard Dawkins talks with Henry Finder. Presented in collaboration with the New Yorker Festival, on October 1, 2011. Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and the author of the Times best-selling books The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion, and The Greatest Show on Earth. His new book, The Magic of Reality, an illustrated science guide for adults and young people, comes out in October. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Literature. Henry Finder is the editorial director of The New Yorker.
Thomas Sowell: Federal Reserve a 'Cancer'
Complete video at: fora.tv Economist Thomas Sowell explains why he supports Ron Paul's stance on abolishing the Federal Reserve. When asked by Peter Robinson what should replace the Fed, Sowell replies: "When someone removes a cancer, what do you replace it with?" ----- Thomas Sowell has studied and taught economics, intellectual history, and social policy at institutions that include Cornell University, UCLA, and Amherst College. Now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Sowell has published more than a dozen books, the latest of which is a revised and updated edition of his classic volume, Basic Economics. "Through its various editions," Sowell writes, "the fundamental idea behind Basic Economics remains the same: Learning economics should be as uncomplicated as it is informative." Here, Sowell seeks to uncomplicate some of the economic issues confronting the country today, from the financial crisis and the role of the Fed to the economics of health care and trade imbalances. - Hoover Institution Thomas Sowell is an American economist, political writer, and commentator. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1990, he won the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute. In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science. Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and ...
Dopamine Jackpot! Sapolsky on the Science of Pleasure
Complete video at: fora.tv Robert Sapolsky, professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, compares dopamine levels in monkeys and humans. Sapolsky argues that in both, "Dopamine is not about pleasure, it's about the anticipation of pleasure. It's about the pursuit of happiness." Unlike monkeys however, humans "keep those dopamine levels up for decades and decades waiting for the reward." ---- Dr. Robert Sapolsky is a professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya. Dr. Sapolsky is the author of several works of nonfiction, including A Primate's Memoir, The Trouble with Testosterone, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals.
Was Iceland a Target for Economic Hit Men? - John Perkins
Complete video at: fora.tv John Perkins, author of Hoodwinked and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, blames Iceland's economic collapse on the tactics of economic hit men from multi-national corporations . ----- Economic hit man John Perkins has confessed the sins of predatory politicians and analyzed the reasons for the current meltdown. A reformed economist, he warns that returning to our "normal" blueprints for the global economy would prove disastrous. Perkins details the steps to transform "the mutant form of capitalism" into a system based on sustainability and justice. - Commonwealth Club John Perkins spent three decades as an Economic Hit Man, business executive, author, and lecturer. He lived and worked in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America. Then he made a decision: he would use these experiences to make the planet a better place for his daughter's generation. Today he teaches about the importance of rising to higher levels of consciousness, to waking up - in both spiritual and physical realms - and is a champion for environmental and social causes. He has lectured at universities on four continents, including Harvard, Wharton, and Princeton.
FORA.tv Interviews Radiohead's Thom Yorke @ COP15
FORA.tv's Stuart Schulzke interviews Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke at the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen. Although Yorke criticizes the political atmosphere, he remains optimistic that domestic pressures will force world leaders to forge worthwhile policies. "If it's full of shit, we're going to smell it," he quips. FORA.tv's complete coverage of the COP15 Climate Change Conference: fora.tv ----- Thom Yorke is an English musician who is the lead singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock group Radiohead. He mainly plays guitar and piano, but he has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac sessions). In July 2006, he released his debut solo album, "The Eraser." Yorke has been cited among the most influential figures in the music industry; in 2002, Q Magazine named Yorke the 6th most powerful figure in music, and Radiohead were ranked #73 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2005. Also Yorke has been cited among the greatest singers in popular music; in 2005, Blender readers voted Yorke the 18th greatest singer of all time, and in 2008 he was ranked 66th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of all Time." Stuart Schulzke is FORA.tv's Director of Content Development. He earned two graduate degrees at the University of Oxford and his research has ranged from conflict resolution in Palestine to anti-corruption strategies in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. Schulzke previously worked for the ...
A Day in the Life of a Kiva Robot
Complete Premium video at: fora.tv Kiva Systems founder and CEO Mick Mountz narrates a play-by-play video of how Kiva robots automate a warehouse environment. ----- How Robots Think: Why Artificial Intelligence Is Nothing Like the Human Mind Mick Mountz, Founder & CEO, Kiva Systems in conversation with Jason Tanz Mick Mountz is founder and CEO of Kiva Systems. Mountz founded Kiva Systems in 2003, after experiencing the inadequacy of existing material-handling technologies for ecommerce at the grocery delivery startup Webvan. Kiva's integrated order-fulfillment solution employs hundreds of mobile robots and distributed intelligence to enable faster, more flexible ecommerce distribution centers for companies like The Gap, Saks Fifth Avenue, Diapers.com, Staples, Walgreens, and Crate and Barrel. Under Mountz's leadership, Kiva was ranked sixth on the 2009 Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in the US. Before joining Webvan, Mountz spent three years as a product manager at Apple Computer, where he helped move new technologies like FireWire, DVD, Fast Ethernet, and 3D graphics acceleration into the standard desktop platform. He began his career as a mechanical and manufacturing engineer at Motorola. In 2008, Mountz received an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the New England region. He holds twelve US technology patents.
How Steve Wozniak Brought Color to Personal Computers
Complete video at: fora.tv Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recalls the moment he stumbled upon the idea of how to put color into personal computers. The inspiration came during a sleepless four-day and four-night design session while building the Atari game Breakout. "That was probably one of the biggest things Apple ever did," he says. ----- Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and philanthropist in conversation at the Discovery Forum 2010 with Emmy-award winning journalist Dana King from CBS 5 Eyewitness News. Renowned technology pioneer Steve Wozniak speaks to the importance of hands-on learning and encouraging creativity, and how the Bay Area Discovery Museum is a critical resource for preparing children for the challenges of the 21st century. The Discovery Forum serves to increase awareness about the importance of childhood creativity, and raises support for the Museum's educational exhibitions and programs. - Bay Area Discovery Museum A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Wheels of Zeus (wOz), helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed America's leading innovators. In 2000 Steve was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded ...
Why Do Americans Continue to Deny Climate Change?
Complete video at: fora.tv Journalist Mark Hertsgaard argues the United States is the only advanced industrial nation that continues to debate the existence of climate change. Though climate change skeptics only represent a minority of the country, Hertsgaard says their megaphone is large. He compares them to tobacco industry lobbyists who once rejected evidence that smoking causes cancer. ----- Healy Hamilton, the director of the Center for Applied Biodiversity Informatics at the California Academy of Sciences, talks with freelance science journalist Mark Hertsgaard about his latest book, Hot: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth. Mark Hertsgaard is the author of five books that have been translated into sixteen languages, including Earth Odyssey: Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future and On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency. A correspondent for Link TV and The Nation and L'espresso magazines, he has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, The Guardian, Die Zeit and other leading publications around the world. His next book is called, Hot: Living Through the Storm: Surviving the Next 50 Years of Global Warming. Dr. Healy Hamilton heads the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information at the California Academy of Sciences, and serves as adjunct professor in the Department of Geography at San Francisco State University.
Neil deGrasse Tyson - World to End In 2012...or Not
Complete video at: fora.tv Author and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson dismisses the popular internet doomsday theory that a "Planet X," aka Nibiru, will return to our solar system in 2012 and fatally disrupt the Earth's orbit -- a claim Tyson describes as a "marvelous work of fiction." ----- Neil deGrasse Tyson, the bestselling author and director of the world-famous Hayden Planetarium, chronicles America's irrational love affair with Pluto, man's best celestial friend. Neil deGrasse Tyson was born and raised in New York City where he was educated in the public schools clear through his graduation from the Bronx High School of Science. Tyson went on to earn his BA in Physics from Harvard and his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia. Tyson's professional research interests are broad, but include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way. Tyson obtains his data from the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as from telescopes in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and in the Andes Mountains of Chile. In 2001, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to serve on a 12-member commission that studied the Future of the US Aerospace Industry. The final report was published in 2002 and contained recommendations (for Congress and for the major agencies of the government) that would promote a thriving future of transportation, space exploration, and national security. In 2004, Tyson was once again appointed by President Bush to serve on a 9-member ...
How Big Tobacco Corrupts Science
Complete video at fora.tv Robert Proctor, Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, explains ways in which the tobacco industry has manipulated science. Proctor argues that tobacco-friendly scientific research was "mounting a gigantic confusion campaign." ---- Some 65% of all research and development in the US is funded by private interests. History shows that the corporate funding of scientific research can be problematic — the tobacco industry offers a potent example. When corporations fund science, is truth the ultimate goal, or is stockholder profit? Please join five outstanding scholars and teachers as they take part in a panel discussion that asks, "Does Corporate Funding Corrupt Science?"
The Secret Lives of the Brain
Complete video at: fora.tv David Eagleman, neuroscientist and author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, discusses the relatively minor role that the conscious mind plays in comparison to the rest of the brain. "The conscious part is like a stowaway on a transatlantic steamship that's taking credit for the whole journey without acknowledging the engineering underfoot," he says. ----- As neuroscientists are learning more and more about our body's hidden frontier, we have gained fleeting insights into our own intuition, habits and seemingly unexplainable preferences. Can we solve those mysteries by creating a complete computer model of our brain? Or, is the brain an unsolvable puzzle? Two leading neuroscientists discuss these question and more as we look into the neurology of the brain. - swissnex San Francisco and the California Academy of Sciences David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and a fiction writer. During the day, he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law at Baylor College of Medicine. He is best known for his work on time perception, synesthesia, and neurolaw. He is a fiction writer. His debut work of fiction, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, became an international bestseller and is published in 22 languages.
The Thank You Economy: How Business Must Adapt to Social Media
Viewer advisory: This program contains explicit language. Wine Library TV's Gary Vaynerchuk gives his no-holds-barred take on how modern businesses must adapt to thrive in a social media-driven culture. ----- On November 5, L2 and NYU Stern hosted its second-annual Innovation Forum at The Morgan Library in New York City. The full-day event addressed innovation in digital marketing and implications for prestige brands. L2 Forums are the largest gatherings of prestige professionals in North America. Forums draw C-level executives and top marketing and digital talent from prestige brands; leading agencies, media, and technology firms; and innovators and academics. In addition, 25 percent of seats are reserved for students from the nation's top business and arts graduate programs. Gary Vaynerchuk was born in Babruysk, USSR (today Belarus) on November 14, 1975 and emigrated to the US in 1978. He graduated from Mount Ida College in Newton, MA. From a platform as co-owner and Director of Operations of Wine Library, a wine retail shop in Springfield, New Jersey, Vaynerchuk gained fame as the host of Wine Library TV, a daily internet webcast on the subject of wine. Called the "king of social media", he is one of the first Facebook users to max out his friend limit, with over 17000 pending friend requests. He is in the top 100 people followed on Twitter and was the keynote speaker at events like the 2009 South by Southwest Interactive conference and the New Media and Web 2.0 expos.
Tenacity vs Intellect: What Makes an Entrepreneur?
Complete video at: fora.tv When it comes to entrepreneurship, does tenacity trump intelligence? NowPublic.com co-founder Leonard Brody thinks so. He says entrepreneurial success depends on a willingness to take "ten punches to the stomach and [get] up for the eleventh," citing Google and FedEx as ideas that overcame early challenges to become wild successes. ----- A discussion on Developing the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs: Innovating Primary and Secondary Education in America with Marc Ecko, Don Moody, John Petry, Leonard Brody. Moderated by Ira Sockowitz. World Entrepreneurship Day is the internationally-recognized day for the celebration of the world's entrepreneurial heroes. Leonard Brody is a highly respected entrepreneur, venture capitalist, best-selling author and a 2 time Emmy nominated media visionary. He has helped in raising millions of dollars for startup companies, been through one of the largest Internet IPOs in history and has been involved in the building, financing and/or sale of five companies to date. Currently Leonard sits as the President of the Clarity Digital Group responsible for overseeing one of the largest online news conglomerates in the world including Examiner.com and Now Public, which between them, share over 20 million unique visitors a month and over 200000 contributors. Leonard also acts as an advisor to venture capital funds in the US, Europe and Asia. Throughout his career, has also advised several companies including, the ...
Can Israel Be Talked Out of Attacking Iran?
Complete video at fora.tv Former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller discusses the role emotion plays in Israel's desire to attack Iran. He describes all the logical arguments to dissuade attacking Iran, but admits that emotional reactions are "almost unreachable by those sorts of arguments." ---- Bill Keller, op-ed columnist and former executive editor of The New York Times, speaks with Prof. Peter Beinart, senior political writer for the Daily Beast who teaches Political Reporting at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Bill Keller has enjoyed a long and illustrious career at The Times, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for his coverage of the Soviet Union, and serving as executive editor from 2003 to 2011, a time of transformation and challenge in the news media. He is currently an op-ed columnist and contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Beinart is a faculty member at CUNY's Graduate Center and Graduate School of Journalism. He is a senior political writer for the Daily Beast, a contributor to Time, and the author of, most recently, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris. The Graduate Center's Perspectives series with Peter Beinart features dynamic thinkers and practitioners examining the pressing political and public policy issues shaping our world today. Previous participants have included Christopher Hitchens, Tina Brown, Andrew Sullivan, and Paul Krugman.
We're All Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University, presents examples of cognitive illusions that help illustrate why humans make predictably irrational decisions. EG is the celebration of the American entertainment industry. Since 1984, Richard Saul Wurman has created extraordinary gatherings about learning and understanding. EG is a rich extension of these ideas - a conference that explores the attitude of understanding in music, film, television, radio, technology, advertising, gaming, interactivity and the web - The Entertainment Gathering Dan Ariely is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management. He also holds an appointment at the MIT Media Lab where he is the head of the eRationality research group. He is considered to be one of the leading behavioral economists. Currently, Ariely is serving as a Visiting Professor at the Duke University, Fuqua School of Business where he is teaching a course based upon his findings in Predictably Irrational. Ariely was an undergraduate at Tel Aviv University and received a Ph.D. and MA in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in business from Duke University. His research focuses on discovering and measuring how people make decisions. He models the human decision making process and in particular the irrational decisions that we all make every day. Ariely is the author of the book, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces ...
Raymond Tallis - Free Will and the Brain
Complete video at: fora.tv British gerontologist, author and cultural critic Raymond Tallis addresses questions regarding free will and the brain. ----- "Battle of Ideas: My Brain Made Me Do It" at the 2007 Battle of Ideas conference hosted by the Institute of Ideas. With the politics of behaviour in the ascendancy, there is increasing interest in what science can tell us about why people behave the way they do. The British government is funding the creation of the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, with the express aim of training a 'parenting workforce' to provide science-based child-rearing advice to parents. In the USA, the MRI scanner and the neuroscientific community are entering the court room to give evidence about whether defendants can be regarded as being responsible for their alleged crimes. UK policymakers cite scientific 'evidence' to explain new interventions on everything from early years' education to the alleged impact of school dinners on academic performance. The science of nutrition now informs earnest discussions about how children's diets improve their classroom behaviour, in order to justify policing lunchboxes and putting school meals at the top of the political agenda. Studies of teenage brain development now regularly inform social debates about the impact of new technologies on young people. But how much can science tell us about behaviour? Do scientific findings justify the government's many interventions into the early years of ...
'Star Wars' and Bad Science In Movies - Science Comedian Brian Malow
More Wonderfest videos available at: fora.tv Science comedian Brian Malow cites an example from the original 'Star Wars' to riff on the poor science often on display in sci-fi movies. ----- Brian Malow's YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com Brian Malow's blog: www.sciencecomedian.com Brian Malow's videos for Time Magazine: bit.ly Brian Malow (@sciencecomedian) on Twitter: www.twitter.com Now an accomplished stand-up comic whose career has spanned more than a decade to include performances on CBS, A&E, TechTV, and the Discovery Channel, Brian Malow turns his sharp wit upon his first love: the world of science. Brian entertains and ignites interest in science with hysterical, thought-provoking science comedy routines about the environment, insects and viruses, evolution and extinction, the speed of light, gravity, cell phones, computers -- everything under the Sun -- and even the Sun itself! Brian makes science funny, exciting and easily digestible for all audiences. Wonderfest, the Bay Area Festival of Science, is held each year in the beginning of November. Enjoy fascinating discussions between world-class scientists on cutting edge topics, as well as other fun exhibitions. Visit Wonderfest.org and join.
Want to Upload Your Brain? Science Fiction Comes to Life
Complete video at: fora.tv Professor of Computational Neuroscience at MIT Sebastian Seung discusses how the study of "connectomes", a comprehensive map of neural connections in the brain, can help turn science fiction into reality. Seung proposes that through the study of the connectome we can test whether ideas such as freezing ourselves or uploading our brains on to computers are even possible. ---- MIT professor Sebastian Seung has found what he calls the nexus of nature and nurture: the "Connectome", or the network of connections between neurons in the human brain. He will take you inside his ambitious quest to model the Connectome, which, if successful, would uncover the basis of personality, intelligence, memory and disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. McGill University Professor of Psychology and Neurosciences Daniel Levitin wrote in The Wall Street Journal that Connectome is "the best lay book on brain science I've ever read." Dr. Seung is Professor of Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Adjunct Assistant Neurobiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He studied theoretical physics with David Nelson at Harvard University, and completed postdoctoral training with Haim Sompolinsky at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before joining the MIT faculty, he was a member of the Theoretical Physics Department at Bell Laboratories. Dr ...
Gerd Leonhard: A Facebook Data Spill? Data and Privacy
Complete video at: fora.tv Gerd Leonhard, CEO of The Futures Agency, discusses the business, politics, and ramifications of big data and privacy. Leonard argues that there is a trade-off to free social media services. ---- Data will become a key currency, as it is a virtually limitless, non-rival, and exponentially growing good. Do we need regulations or trust frameworks to deal with it? Can data really be safeguarded in an entirely free-market system governed by commercial interests? What will Generation AO (always-on) share with whom, when, where, and how? And if data is the new oil, how do we avoid wars and global conflicts fought over it? Join leading futurists at swissnex in a debate co-organized by Switzerland's The Futures Agency (TFA) on data as today's key global resource. Gerd Leonhard is a media futurist, blogger, digerati, writer, speaker and advisor. He has spent over twenty-five years in the technology and entertainment industries, both in the US as well as in Europe, and recently in Asia. Leonhard writes about the impact that new technologies have on content and the media industry.
Is Society on the Verge of Collapse?
Complete video at: fora.tv Theoretical physicist Geoffrey B. West discusses the implications of a society that defines success as perpetual exponential growth. West suggests that a collapse may be as inevitable as a heart attack if one is forced to run on a treadmill that never stops accelerating. ----- Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster As organisms, cities, and companies scale up, they all gain in efficiency, but then they vary. The bigger an organism, the slower. Yet the bigger a city is, the faster it runs. And cities are structurally immortal, while corporations are structurally doomed. Scaling up always creates new problems; cities can innovate faster than the problems indefinitely, while corporations cannot. These revolutionary findings come from Geoffrey West's examination of vast quantities of data on the metabolic/economic behavior of organisms and organizations. A theoretical physicist, West was president of Santa Fe Institute from 2005 to 2009 and founded the high energy physics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Geoffrey West (b. 1940) is a physicist. He was born in a rural town in western England and moved to London when he was 13. He received a bachelor's degree in physics from Cambridge and pursued graduate studies in California at Stanford. He eventually became a Stanford faculty member before he joined the particle theory group at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory. After Los Alamos, he became ...
The Real Scene Behind a Renoir Masterpiece
Complete video at fora.tv Impressionism expert Anne Distel shows Renoir's Bal du Moulin de la Galette and reads a contemporaneous quote about the painting's inspiration. Distel admits that the real setting was "seedy", and far less tame than the painting would suggest. ---- In characterizing Renoir's art, Cézanne once said that his old friend had "painted the woman of Paris." Cézanne's insight provides the point of departure for this lecture, which takes a closer look at Renoir's female figures. Anne Distel, a specialist in Impressionist painting, is emeritus curator-at-large of the French patrimony. During her distinguished career in the Musées de France, she organized important exhibitions devoted to Renoir, Seurat, and Caillebotte, among others.
Three Things You Didn't Know About the Iraq War - Thomas Ricks
Complete video at: fora.tv Washington Post military correspondent Thomas E. Ricks outlines what he views as three elements of the Iraq war that Americans do not understand, including how stuck the US truly is in Iraq. "President Obama is only slowly coming to grasp just how screwed he is," says Ricks. ----- Does military intervention work? What is the role of non-military and multi-national groups in regime change and peace-keeping efforts? Three distinguished participants discuss their perspectives on peace keeping and regime change. Featuring Alex de Waal, program director of the Social Science Research Council, General Barry McCaffrey, four-star general of the United States Army (retired), and Thomas Ricks, The Washington Post's Special Military Correspondent. Thomas Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center moderates. -- City University of New York Thomas E. Ricks is a Washington Post Pentagon and military correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winner. Ricks lectures widely to the military and is a member of Harvard University's Senior Advisory Council on the Project on US Civil-Military Relations. Ricks is the author of the bestselling books Making the Corps, A Soldier's Duty, and Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq.
Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe on Lamb Castration, PETA, and American Labor
Drawing on his experiences picking up roadkill, feeding swine, and castrating a lamb with his teeth, Mike Rowe, host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs, discusses how modern American culture belittles necessary labor. EG is the celebration of the American entertainment industry. Since 1984, Richard Saul Wurman has created extraordinary gatherings about learning and understanding. EG is a rich extension of these ideas - a conference that explores the attitude of understanding in music, film, television, radio, technology, advertising, gaming, interactivity and the web - The Entertainment Gathering Mike Rowe has had more jobs than you. In fact, Mike has had more jobs than anyone. As the creator and executive producer of Discovery Channels Emmy-nominated series Dirty Jobs With Mike Rowe, Mike has spent years traveling the country, working as an apprentice on more than 200 jobs that most people would go out of their way to avoid. From coal mining to roustabouting, maggot farming to sheep castrating, Mike has worked in just about every industry and filmed the show in almost every state, celebrating the hard-working Americans who make civilized life possible for the rest of us. On Labor Day 2008, Mike launched a Web site called mikeroweWORKS.com, where skilled labor and hard work are celebrated in the hope of calling attention to the steady decline in the trades and bolstering enrollment in trade schools and technical colleges. In addition to Dirty Jobs and his mikeroweWORKS ...
Playing Jesus in the Big Lebowski - John Turturro
Complete video at: fora.tv Actor John Turturro describes creating the character of Jesus Quintana for Joel and Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski. He discusses the importance as an actor of having a good relationship with a film's director, explaining his performance "came out of something very...organic." ----- John Turturro meets with the New School student body in a Town Hall meeting for a Q&A about his career and experiences in the entertainment industry. - The New School John Turturro studied at the Yale School of Drama. He created the title role of John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea in his theatrical début, for which he won an Obie Award and a Theater World Award. Since then, Turturro has returned to the stage often, in productions such as Waiting for Godot; performing the title role in Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; and in Eduardo de Filippo's Souls of Naples, for which he received a Drama Desk nomination. He recently completed Samuel Beckett's ENDGAME at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Mr. Turturro has also performed in more than sixty films, working with directors such as Martin Scorsese (The Color of Money), Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever), Robert Redford (Quiz Show), Peter Weir (Fearless), Tom DiCillo (Box of Moonlight), and Joel and Ethan Coen (Miller's Crossing; The Big Lebowski; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; and the lead role in Barton Fink, which won him the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and ...
Bob Costas: Football Is Unacceptably Brutal
Complete video at: fora.tv Sportscaster Bob Costas criticizes professional football for both its celebration of violence and the likelihood that many players will sustain a serious injury at some point during their careers. ---- Don't miss the chance to hear these two veteran sports journalists -- Bob Costas of NBC Sports, author of the best-seller "Fair Ball, A Fan's Case for Baseball," and Bob Lipsyte, longtime New York Times sports columnist and author of the memoir "An Accidental Sportswriter." Bob Costas, a 19-time Emmy Award winner, and television's most honored studio host, is the host of NBC's "Football Night in America" studio show. Costas also serves as primetime host of NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games and co-hosts NBC's coverage of the US Open, Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.Bob Costas, a 19-time Emmy Award winner, and television's most honored studio host, is the host of NBC's "Football Night in America" studio show. Costas also serves as primetime host of NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games and co-hosts NBC's coverage of the US Open, Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.
Sam Harris: The Moral Failings of Religion
Sam Harris: The Moral Failings of Religion Complete video at: fora.tv Sam Harris, author of The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, discusses the shortcomings of organized religion as a guide for human morality. ----- In this highly anticipated, explosive new book, the author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation calls for an end to religion's monopoly on morality and human values. In The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, Sam Harris tears down the wall between scientific facts and human values to dismantle the most common justification for religious faith -- that a moral system cannot be based on science. The End of Faith ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In its aftermath, Harris discovered that most people, from secular scientists to religious fundamentalists, agree on one point: Science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Even among religious fundamentalists, the defense one most often hears for belief in God is not that there is compelling evidence that God exists, but that faith in Him provides the only guidance for living a good life. Controversies about human values are controversies about which science has officially had no opinion. Until now. Morality, Harris argues, is actually an undeveloped branch of neuroscience, and answers to questions of human value can be visualized on a "moral landscape" -- a space of real and potential outcomes whose peaks and valleys ...
Romney and Religion: Is America Ready for a Mormon President?
Complete video at: fora.tv TIME Magazine's Joe Klein and BuzzFeed's Ben Smith weigh in on what Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney actually believes in, and whether America is ready for a Mormon president. Klein predicts that Romney's faith leads him to be "mistrustful of the outside world", and Klein argues that Romney's measured demeanor could affect his chance of winning the election. ---- CUNY J-School Professor Peter Beinart, who is also senior political writer for The Daily Beast, will lead a discussion on the 2012 presidential election with Time magazine political columnist Joe Klein and BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith. The Graduate Center's Perspectives series with Peter Beinart features dynamic thinkers and practitioners examining the pressing political and public policy issues shaping our world today. Previous participants have included Christopher Hitchens, Tina Brown, Andrew Sullivan, and Paul Krugman.
Neurobiologist David Eagleman Looks Underneath the Hood of the Brain
Complete video at: fora.tv David Eagleman marvels at the extreme complexity of the human brain and the fact that so much of what takes place in the brain happens without our awareness. ---- As we use the tools of science to explore the nature of humanity, we are learning more and more about how our brains function and what motivates our behavior, built-in biases and blind spots. These fresh insights are interesting scientifically, but they also evoke significant questions about our lived experience. These perspectives challenge our basic assumptions of who we are, both as individuals and as a society. David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, New York Times best selling author and Guggenheim Fellow who holds joint appointments in the Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Eagleman's areas of research include time perception, vision, synesthesia, and the intersection of neuroscience with the legal system.
Interstellar Travel: Will We Ever Get Out of the Solar System?
Complete video at: fora.tv Astronomer Royal Martin Rees examines the various options for colonizing worlds beyond our own solar system, and expresses skepticism that humanity will ever achieve faster-than-light travel. "There are hypothetical time machines, but the only one that's been worked out involves creating a black hole weighing as much as 10000 suns," says Rees. "That seems a pretty tall technological order." ----- Former President of the Royal Society, England's Astronomer Royal, Lord Martin Rees brings a lifetime of cosmological inquiry to a crucial question: What if human success on Earth determines life's success in the universe? He thinks that civilization's chances of getting out of this century intact are about 50-50. He is hopeful that extraterrestrial life already exists, but there's no sign of it yet. But even if we are now alone, he notes that we may not even be the halfway stage of evolution. There is huge scope for post-human evolution, so that "it will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae." Appropriately, Rees's Long Now talk was at the Chabot Space & Science Center in the hills above Oakland, in the planetarium. - The Long Now Foundation Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2004. He was ...
Shell CEO: What Controls the Price of Gas?
Complete video at fora.tv CEO of Royal Dutch Shell Peter Voser explains what economic factors drive the highly volatile price of oil. Although Voser believes that gas prices are too high, he doesn't expect them to fall greatly considering current geopolitical issues. ---- The future of energy is one of the most timely and important topics to be discussed at the Churchill Club this year. Population growth; massive and growing demands for energy/water/food; climate stresses; low levels of trust among business, governments and individuals; and other factors conspire to create a complex ecosystem that is both challenging and ripe with opportunity. How will we meet the energy demands of the next two decades, and beyond? What are the tradeoffs, and what's at stake? What are the roles technology and innovation can play to help address the challenges, and create new opportunities? Join us for this rare chance to hear and speak with Peter Voser, CEO of a company that over the past decades has invested billions of dollars into research and development, was the first to develop scenarios to explore the future of energy and was recently shown on both Thomson Reuters' and MIT's Technology Review lists of the world's most innovative companies. Voser will share his personal vision and observations, in conversation with Forbes Publisher Rich Karlgaard.
The 'Dark Bright Spot' in the Iran Nuclear Debate
Complete video at fora.tv Sam Nunn, former US Senator and Co-Chairman and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, discusses the outlook for peacefully resolving the nuclear issue with Iran. He argues that economic sanctions seem to be working, and highlights a recent statement from the Ayatollah that would give Iran the option to give up a weapons program while saving face. ---- Three distinguished statesmen discuss their vision for international security in these precarious times. Secretaries Shultz and Perry and Senator Nunn will assess the current state of nuclear threats, including Iran's drive to build a bomb, the North Korean nuclear weapons program, and future prospects for limiting the spread of nuclear materials and eventually eliminating nuclear weapons. Sam Nunn is Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. He served as a United States Senator from Georgia for 24 years (1972-1996) and is retired from the law firm King & Spalding. William J. Perry was the nineteenth United States secretary of defense, serving from February 1994 to January 1997. Perry, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor at Stanford University, with a joint appointment in the School of Engineering and the Institute for International Studies, where he is codirector of the Preventive Defense Project, a ...
Two Sides to Adam Smith: Beyond 'Wealth of Nations'
Complete video at: fora.tv Rabbi Irwin Kula points out that Adam Smith, well known for writing The Wealth of Nations, wrote another book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Using the words of the "father of capitalism", Kula attempts to reconcile the "polarized Adam Smiths". ---- Disruption is everywhere and disruptive innovation can apply to anything -- or can it? This session will explain how to identify and unleash disruptive potential across a broad spectrum of human endeavor, from business and finance to religion and the arts. Ideas Economy: Innovation will explore the role of governments, corporations and individuals as drivers of innovation and will develop prescriptions that lead to lasting progress and prosperity. Conference attendees will engage in a lively examination of current political and economic policies around the world, develop a keen understanding of how the forces of globalization affect the ways companies innovate and manage innovation, and discuss what individuals can do, not only to energize their own creative and intellectual potential, but to develop jobs, improve company earnings, and contribute to economic growth around the world. Rabbi Irwin Kula is Co-President of CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, a leadership training institute, think tank, and resource center. Known as both a provocative religious leader and a respected spiritual iconoclast, Irwin Kula uses Jewish wisdom in ways that speak to modern life.
Julianna Margulies: Daughter of a Real-Life Mad Man
Complete video at: fora.tv Actress Julianna Margulies shares a fun fact about her father: that he wrote the classic Alka-Seltzer commercial jingle "Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz." ---- Juliana Margulies won both the 2010 Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild awards for best actress in a television series for her lead role in "The Good Wife". Then she starred with Andy Garcia in the 2009 comedy "City Island", winner of the Audience Award at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. Don't miss Julianna Margulies discussing the movie and her career on TV, stage and film.
Adam Savage Introduces FORA.tv's Top Videos of 2010
MythBusters' Adam Savage introduces FORA.tv's end-of-the-year video playlist on the people, ideas, and issues that changed 2010. Here is FORA.tv's full playlist: www.youtube.com "LHC First Physics : First collisions in the LHCb's experiment" by CERNTV "Apple - iPad - Introducing the iPad" by Apple "Jamie Oliver's TED award speech" by Jamie Oliver on TED "Cynthia Nixon: Gays Don't Want to Redefine Marriage" by Cynthia Nixon on FORA.tv "Cindy Gallop, IfWeRanTheWorld: Make Love Not Porn" by L2 Luxury Lab "It Gets Better: Dan and Terry" by It Gets Better Project "We Are The World 25 For Haiti - Official Video" by We are the World "WikiLeaks: How Safe Are Confidential Sources?" by UC Berkley Graduate School of Journalism on FORA.tv "MythBusters' Adam Savage on Problem Solving: How I Do It" by Adam Savage on FORA.tv "RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms" by the RSA "Where Good Ideas Come From" by Steven Johnson on FORA.tv "Stephen Colbert Opening Statement" by Stephen Colbert on CSPAN "Auto-Tune the News: Sanity Song" by Auto-Tune The News
Larry Lessig: Who Is Copyright Designed For?
Complete video available for free at fora.tv Harvard professor and author Larry Lessig details the opposing sides in the battle over copyright law, but ponders, for whom are copyright laws written. ---- Lawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society, discusses America's flawed political system, and ways to change it.
Feingold Criticizes Citizens United Decision
Complete video at: fora.tv Former US Senator Russ Feingold speaks out against the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision. "This was truly one of the most strange and wrong decisions in the history of this country", says Feingold, and he argues that the Supreme Court has rendered precedent useless. ---- Former US Senator Russell Feingold (D-WI) in conversation at the Commonwealth Club of California. Feingold discusses his political career and current events in the news. Widely known for his efforts to spur campaign finance reform during his 18 years as a US senator, Democratic Feingold was the only senator to oppose the Patriot Act of 2001 and the first to propose a concrete timetable for the dissolution of American troops in Iraq. He is also a major opponent of financial deregulation and controversial trade agreements, cosponsor of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, and founder of Progressives United, an organization formed to combat the results of the Supreme Court's contentious ruling on Citizens United v. FEC. In Feingold's forthcoming book, "While America Sleeps", the former senator offers his account of what he sees as America's recent mistakes and advances a realignment of objectives designed to build a successful global future.
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