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 FORA.tv - Program Feed Updated : How to Defeat Your Own Clone  How to Defeat Your Own Clone Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present local authors Kyle Kurpinski and Terry D. Johnson as they discuss and sign How to Defeat Your Own Clone. CAN IT READ MY MIND? WILL IT BE EVIL? HOW DO I STOP IT? Find out the answers to these and other burning questions in this funny, informative, and ingenious book from two bioengineering experts who show you how to survive -- and thrive -- in a new age of truly weird science. Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: Oakland, CA, Deisel Bookstore, Diesel Bookstore Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/03/07/How_to_Defeat_Your_Own_ClonePubl.Date : Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:54:50 -0800 Geoengineering: Global Salvation or Ruin?  Geoengineering: Global Salvation or Ruin? Should humans address man-made rising temperatures and sea levels by tinkering further with mother nature? A lively debate about geoengineering has burst into the mainstream recently with reference to Ken Caldeira's work in the final chapter of the popular book SuperFreakonomics. This panel takes a measured look at the good, bad and ugly of what could and should be done. What is technically feasible? How could new tactics be tested? Does the mere possibility of geoengineering diminish efforts to reduce carbon pollution? Our speakers share their distinct perspectives on this passionate environmental topic. Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: San Francisco, CA, The Commonwealth Club of California, Commonwealth Club Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/02/23/Geoengineering_Global_Salvation_or_RuinPubl.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:09:11 -0800 Lauren Flanigan: The Art of the Monodrama  Lauren Flanigan: The Art of the Monodrama Concerts & Conversations presents acclaimed international soprano Lauren Flanigan, hailed by Time magazine as "the thinking man's diva," in an evening devoted to the art of the monodrama, vocal settings of solo scenes. Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: New York, NY, CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/03/02/Lauren_Flanigan_The_Art_of_the_MonodramaPubl.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:22:25 -0800 Sick & Tired: How America's Health System Fails Patients  Sick & Tired: How America's Health System Fails Patients As an active person, Helene Jorgensen decided to enjoy a hike in the mountains one afternoon while attending a conference in Montana. Warned by friends to beware of bears, Jorgensen was attacked by a creature much more menacing -- the Rocky Mountain wood tick. Sick and Tired is the story of Jorgensen's subsequent illness and her descent into the quagmire that is the American health care system. Returning home from her trip, Jorgensen is quickly debilitated by a mysterious illness and sets out to find a diagnosis and cure. Along the way, she is seen by countless doctors, none of whom seems to be able to diagnose her accurately. She undergoes two surgeries, is forced to quit her job as a labor economist, and is saddled with countless bills and denied payment for claims. Jorgensen quickly learns that the health care system does not work; finally diagnosed with Lyme disease, she struggles for years to receive proper medical treatment. Based on the author's notes and observations, statistics, and survey data, Sick and Tired details the health care system's failings and lays out arguments to fix it. As an economist, Jorgensen takes a critical look at conflicts of interest between doctors, pharmaceutical companies, diagnostic laboratories, and insurance companies that restrict treatment options and increase patient charges. While millions of Americans negotiate the health care system, and try to make sense of health care reform, Helene Jorgensen's saga may prove an important consideration in the national debate. She provides advice about how to seek better and more affordable medical care from physicians, health plans, and elected officials. Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: San Francisco, CA, Booksmith, Booksmith Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/03/03/Sick_and_Tired_How_Americas_Health_System_Fails_PatientsPubl.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:52:30 -0800 Physics, Finance and Some Useful Mathematics  Physics, Finance and Some Useful Mathematics As part of a groundbreaking new Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences (ITS), the Graduate Center presents a talk by Marc Potters, co-CEO of Capital Fund Management, one of France's oldest alternative investment management firms. After a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University and postdoctoral work at the University of Rome, Potters joined CFM, where he now serves as director of research. He has made substantial contributions to many problems in quantitative finance, and is the coauthor, with Jean-Phillippe Bouchaud, of the major modern text on these issues, Theory of Financial Risk and Derivative Pricing: From Statistical Physics to Risk Management (Cambridge University Press, 2003). His work, and that of his colleagues, shows how theoretical ideas developed to understand one part of the world find application in unexpected places. Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: New York, NY, CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/03/01/Physics_Finance_and_Some_Useful_MathematicsPubl.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:28:31 -0800 Shane Harris: The Rise of America's Surveillance State  Shane Harris: The Rise of America's Surveillance State Shane Harris, a reporter for National Journal, talks about The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State. Harris charts the rise of America's surveillance state over the past 25 years and highlights a dangerous paradox: he argues the government's strategy has made it harder to catch terrorists and easier to spy on civilians. Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: San Francisco, CA, Book Passage, Book Passage Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/03/04/Shane_Harris_The_Rise_of_Americas_Surveillance_StatePubl.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:21:56 -0800 Moeed Ahmad: Al Jazeera on the Front Edge of Media  Moeed Ahmad: Al Jazeera on the Front Edge of Media Much was made of the importance of Twitter and other forms of social media during last year's Iranian election. But were the tweets out of Iran really representative of the view on the ground? Social media sites are being embraced throughout the developing world: even in countries where repressive regimes limit freedom of speech and media access. It's a situation that presents new opportunities - and pitfalls - for journalists. Moeed Ahmad is the head of New Media at Al Jazeera, and he provides a unique, inside perspective on the use of these websites in the Middle East at the Media 2010 conference in Sydney. Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: Sydney, Australia, X Media Lab, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/02/19/Moeed_Ahmad_Al_Jazeera_on_the_Front_Edge_of_MediaPubl.Date : Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:55:29 -0800 Warwick's Books Presents Kathryn Stockett  Warwick's Books Presents Kathryn Stockett Kathryn Stockett reads from her sensational debut novel The Help. Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Location: La Jolla, California, Warwick's Books, Warwick's Books Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2009/03/27/Warwicks_Books_Presents_Kathryn_StockettPubl.Date : Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:16:03 -0800 Warwick's Books Presents Kevin Starr  Warwick's Books Presents Kevin Starr Kevin Starr reads from and discusses Golden Dreams, the latest in his multi-volume history of California. Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Location: La Jolla, California, Warwick's Books, Warwick's Books Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2009/07/20/Warwicks_Books_Presents_Kevin_StarrPubl.Date : Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:15:36 -0800 Warwick's Books Presents Diane Ackerman  Warwick's Books Presents Diane Ackerman Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper's Wife and The Natural History of the Senses, reads from her new work, Dawn Light, a very personal, meditative study of Dawn, using history, myth, poetry, entymology and personal observation as a collection of "secular hallelujahs" - a natural history of Dawn, if you will. Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Location: La Jolla, California, Warwick's Books, Warwick's Books Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2009/10/01/Warwicks_Books_Presents_Diane_AckermanPubl.Date : Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:15:06 -0800 Warwick's Books Presents Greg Mortenson  Warwick's Books Presents Greg Mortenson Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson speaks about his new book, Stones Into Schools, before a sold-out crowd of nearly 800 people. Bill Perrine, of Billingsgate Media, chronicles the event. Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Location: San Diego, California, San Diego Unity Center, Warwick's Books Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2009/12/10/Warwicks_Books_Presents_Greg_MortensonPubl.Date : Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:14:11 -0800 Green Buildings: Best Practices from Switzerland Publ.Date : Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:49:49 -0800 Ted Leonsis: The Business Of Happiness  Ted Leonsis: The Business Of Happiness More than a quarter century ago, at the age of 25, Ted Leonsis - now the owner of the Washington Capitals - was already a highly successful entrepreneur, but reflecting on his life after surviving a plane crash, he realized that he wasn't truly happy. Walking away from that plane crash, Leonsis was determined to discover the secret to happiness. Using the same analytical skills that had brought him great business success, he began to study happiness in fellow business executives, successful entertainers, and professional athletes, as well as typical Americans. He presents his findings in his new book, The Business of Happiness. Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: Washington, D.C., Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, Sixth and I Historic Synagogue Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/02/24/Ted_Leonsis_The_Business_Of_HappinessPubl.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:41:16 -0800 Raven Chanticleer and the Black Arts Movement  Raven Chanticleer and the Black Arts Movement Culture-maker Raven Chanticleer, a fashion designer, dancer, sculptor, storyteller, and perhaps most famously the founder, craftsman and proprietor of the Harlem African-American Wax and History Museum, is one of the many black artists on this side of the Beat generation whose legacy has been obscured. Join Nikki Johnson, a photographer with the only remaining documentation of Chanticleer's work, along with scholar and artist C. Daniel Dawson, author Aoibheann Sweeney, filmmaker and artist Camille Billops and professor emeritus James Hatch, who together curate the Hatch-Billops collection, an extensive archive of 20th Century Black Culture, to discuss the case of Chanticleer and legacies of many other black artists. Moderated by David Henderson, poet, author and one of the founders of the Umbra Arts Movement. Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: New York, NY, Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/02/23/Raven_Chanticleer_and_the_Black_Arts_MovementPubl.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:36:10 -0800 Uncommon Knowledge: Fox and More with Roger Ailes  Uncommon Knowledge: Fox and More with Roger Ailes Fox News CEO Roger Ailes talks about his recipe for a successful news network. "I recognized that the American people did not want to be told what to think about the information they were receiving...We just want a dialogue, and we believe the ideas and the issues will sort themselves out." Is Ailes a conservative? Does Fox News shape the nation's politics, as many on the left claim? Ailes responds. He also offers up his expertise to our current commander-in-chief. "[Barack Obama] is underexposed and overexposed. He said he was going to be transparent. He is not. So that is underexposure. Yet he is on television every time I look at the television set. He is overexposed, but he is not letting us in on any of the inner workings of what he is trying to accomplish." Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: Stanford, CA, Hoover Institution, Hoover Institution Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/02/05/Uncommon_Knowledge_Fox_and_More_with_Roger_AilesPubl.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:47:15 -0800 Music and the Iraq War  Music and the Iraq War An evening of interviews, presentations, and performances exploring music's role as an inspiration for combat and as a form of soldier expression. Featuring Jonathan Pieslak, music theorist and composer, author of Sound TargetsThe Rest is Noise; Colby Buzzell, Former Army SPC and best-selling author of My War: Killing Time in Iraq; and Jason Sagebiel, guitarist and composer, and former Marine SGT. Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: New York, NY, Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/02/24/Music_and_the_Iraq_WarPubl.Date : Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:03:41 -0800 Digital, Life, Design 2010: User-Centric Experiences  Digital, Life, Design 2010: User-Centric Experiences DLD is an inspiring community for the 21st century which features digital innovation, science and culture and brings together thought leaders, creators, entrepreneurs and investors from Europe, the Middle-East, the Americas and Asia. This session on user-centric experiences features Nick Bilton (New York Times), Carlos Bhola (kikin), Tom Glocer (Thomson Reuters), Dave Moore (24/7 Media), and Tero Ojanpera (Nokia). David Kirkpatrick (The Facebook Effect) moderates. Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: Munich, HVB FORUM, DLD Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/01/25/Digital_Life_Design_2010_User-Centric_ExperiencesPubl.Date : Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:07:53 -0800 David Halpern: The Hidden Wealth of Nations  David Halpern: The Hidden Wealth of Nations David Halpern discusses what is happening in contemporary societies -- from value change to the changing role of governments -- and suggests what policymakers and citizens can do about it. Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: London, The RSA, RSA Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/02/08/David_Halpern_The_Hidden_Wealth_of_NationsPubl.Date : Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:19:33 -0800 Haiti: The Aftermath Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:49:09 -0800 William Ayliffe: The History of Cataract Surgery  William Ayliffe: The History of Cataract Surgery The commonest operation in the world is responsible for restoring sight to millions of blind and visually disabled people every year. From humble beginnings in India over 2,000 years ago it was refined by French surgeons in the Enlightenment. Over the last few decades this operation has been transformed from a risky operation almost identical to that performed by Victorian Surgeons, into a sophisticated quick day case procedure with extremely low complications. The development of new materials by the British aircraft industry was critical to this development and the courageous adoption of pioneering surgeons all over the world, criticised by their peers at the time, has led to the miracle of modern cataract surgery. Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:00:00 -0800 Location: London, Museum of London, Gresham College Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/01/20/William_Ayliffe_The_History_of_Cataract_SurgeryPubl.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:38:44 -0800 Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?  Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? Harvard Professor of Government and 2009 Reith Lecturer, Michael Sandel considers the role of justice in our society and our lives, revealing how an understanding of philosophy can help to make sense of politics, religion, morality - and our own convictions. Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:00:00 -0700 Location: London, The RSA, RSA Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2009/10/13/Justice_Whats_the_Right_Thing_to_DoPubl.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:32:04 -0800 Echoes of Davos 2010  Echoes of Davos 2010 Almost two years after the beginning of the global financial crisis, the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting dedicated its 40th anniversary to a discussion on how to improve the state of the world through a unique call to action: Rethink, Redesign, and Rebuild. To this end, the agenda of the over 2500 stakeholders from business, government, the media, science, and civil society focused on inquiries such as how to strengthen economic and social welfare, how to mitigate global risks, and how to ensure sustainability at a global and regional level. swissnex San Francisco is pleased to host local 2010 WEF participants Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research; Alison Gopnik, professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley; Loic Le Meur, founder and CEO of Seesmic.com; and Paul Saffo (moderator), forecaster, essayist, and visiting scholar at Media X at Stanford University, for a debriefing session on WEF themes. Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: San Francisco, CA, swissnex, swissnex San Francisco Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/02/26/Echoes_of_Davos_2010Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:19:18 -0800 Kati Marton: Enemies of the People  Kati Marton: Enemies of the People When award-winning journalist and author Kati Marton went to Hungary to research her family's life there, she expected to find some good material. After all, her parents were reporters for the AP and UPI during the heart of Hungary's Cold War past. Still, it was a bit of a shock when the archivists brought her "shopping carts full of documents about my family." In fact, Marton's parents were among the most investigated people in all of Hungary. In her latest book, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America, she discusses her memories of growing up in Cold War-era Hungary, and describes her efforts to uncover her family's buried past. Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Location: Washington, D.C., , Aspen Institute Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/02/25/Kati_Marton_Enemies_of_the_PeoplePubl.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:28:27 -0800 Long-Term Thinking in the Next 10,000 Years Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:50:47 -0800 |
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