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FORA.tv daily audio FORAcasts offer short excerpts from many of our top programs. Visit http://FORA.tv to view full-length video of any program featured in this podcast.
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Conan O'Brien: The 'Ron Burgundy' Strategy Drives Viewers | In a one-on-one conversation with Piers Morgan, Conan O'Brien, host of “Conan” on TBS, discusses how his production team leverages new media to increase his late-night audience. | 6/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chris Matthews: Jackasses, Stop Asking About Obama Speech | Chris Matthews, host of “The Chris Matthews Show” on MSNBC, defends his enthusiasm for President Obama's speeches. | 5/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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James Carrott: What Is Steampunk? | James Carrott, cultural historian and author of "Vintage Tomorrows", attempts to define the Steampunk Movement. | 5/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tim Schafer on Kickstarter and the Future of Crowdfunding | Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine Productions, explains that while his first foray into Kickstarter was wildly successful based on fan support alone, projects may need to begin offering financial incentives in order to attract investors. | 5/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Criminal Intent and Predicting the Mental State of Others | 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. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel Pink Defines 'Disruption' | 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. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Raspberry Pi: Making Computer Programming Accessible | Eben Upton, co-founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, discusses the inspiration behind developing the $25 pocket-sized computer. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edward O. Wilson on the Human Condition | Edward O. Wilson, biologist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, discusses the nature of humans, and what lies ahead for our species. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ban College Football: An Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate | Listen to panelists Malcolm Gladwell, Tim Green, Buzz Bissinger, and Jason Whitlock debate whether or not college football should be banned. | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Effect of Changing Medical Advice on Breastfeeding | Dr. Robert Martin, Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago, surveys how changing medical advice on breastfeeding has affected motherhood over time. | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Has Kickstarter Simply Become a ‘Storefront’? | Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler discusses the perception that, despite its philanthropic roots, Kickstarter is becoming more and more commercial. | 5/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R. James Woolsey: The OPEC 'Cartel' and Its Oil Monopoly | Foreign policy expert and former head of the CIA R. James Woolsey discusses OPEC and its grip on global oil prices. Woolsey argues that any oil initiatives in the U.S. can't overcomes OPEC control. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Which Came First: Language or Music? | Anthropologist Dean Falk responds to an audience question about whether language or music evolved first, with the surprising answer that they may have evolved together. | 5/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Larry Lessig: Two Sides in the Battle of Copyright | Harvard professor and author Larry Lessig details the opposing sides in the battle over copyright law, but ponders, for whom are copyright laws written. | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Will Conservatives Rally Around Mitt Romney? | Journalist Jeff Greenfield and pollster Anna Greenberg discusses how evangelicals might impact Mitt Romney's 2012 Election campaign. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clayton Christensen: Is Facebook an Innovative Company? | Clayton Christensen, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, argues that despite developing a groundbreaking idea, Facebook hasn’t proven itself to be an innovative company. | 5/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Does Culture Affect How Bodies Function? | Anne Harrington, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, questions the assumption that all human bodies work in the same way regardless of culture or environment. | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Using Neuromarketing to Customize Your Entertainment | President and CEO of NeuroFocus Dr. A.K. Pradeep explains how his dry wireless full-brain EEG could be applied to customize the consumer's entertainment experience. | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rachel Maddow: Why Conservative Media Model Works | Rachel Maddow, host of the Rachel Maddow Show, and author of Drift, discusses her MSNBC show, and her goal to be mindful of a Republican audience. | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Two Sides to Adam Smith: Beyond 'Wealth of Nations' | 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”. | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Harold Bloom: Why There Is No Walt Whitman Stamp | In a talk about the works of Walt Whitman, renowned literary critic Harold Bloom digresses about why Whitman wasn't honored with a postage stamp. | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Jennifer Brokaw: No One Understands Health Care Costs | Dr. Jennifer Brokaw, Associate Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine at San Francisco General/UCSF, discusses a problem plaguing effective American health care systems: the misunderstood nature of health costs by both patient and doctor. | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jodi Kantor: The 'Political Potency' of the Obamas | Jodi Kantor, Arts and Leisure Editor at The New York Times and author of the recent book "The Obamas", discusses the Administration's strategy to leverage Michelle Obama's high popularity. | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Are Monkeys Good With Money? Understanding Economic Bias | Professor of Psychology at Yale University Laurie Santos presents the findings of her study on whether capuchin monkeys show economic bias after teaching them how to use currency. | 4/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shooting a Feature Film with Your Smart Phone | Hooman Khalili, Pat Gilles, and Chris Kelly, the creators of the recent film “Olive”, discuss the challenge of creating the first feature film shot entirely on a smart phone. | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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comScore Sr. VP: Clicks Bad Metric to Evaluate Online Ads | Anthony Psacharopoulos, a Senior Vice President at comScore hypothesizes that, even though clicks on internet ads are an easy data point to collect, their seemingly low numbers may not represent the actual effectiveness of display ads online. | 4/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bioprinting: Human Tissue on Demand | Andras Forgacs, Co-founder of Organovo, discusses the future of medical innovation: bioprinting, the process of creating human tissue cells. | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vijay Govindarajan on Reverse Innovation: Mango Corn Flakes Are Not Enough | Vijay Govindarajan, Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business, discusses large corporations’ difficulty in understanding reverse innovation. | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Neurologist V.S. Ramachandran on the Mirror Neuron Effect | V.S. Ramachandran explains what causes amputees to have sensations in their phantom limbs, the parts of the brain called mirror neurons. | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vivek Wadhwa: Chinese Innovation is a 'Giant Scam' | Vivek Wadhwa, Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley's School of Information, argues that Chinese innovation lags far behind innovation in the United States because China's rigid political structure doesn't allow for risk-taking. | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thomas Drake: '9/11 Became a Profit Center' for the NSA | Thomas Drake, a former National Security Agency senior officer who blew the whistle on the NSA “Trailblazer” surveillance program, talks about NSA's commitment to national security profit-making after 9/11. | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'Kony 2012' and the Portrayal of African Conflict | Kamari Maxine Clarke, Associate Professor of Anthropology and a Research Associate at the Yale Law School, talks about the controversial message of the most viral video of all time, “Kony 2012”, and the implication of the “oversimplified” narrativ | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Laurie Santos: Understanding the Origins of the Human Mind | Laurie Santos argues that to understand the origins of the human mind, we can study the behavior of primate relatives as a proxy for our ancestors. | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Van Jones and Eliot Spitzer: The Financial Sector is Sucking America Dry | Van Jones, acclaimed author and President of Rebuild the Dream, and Eliot Spitzer, former Governor of New York, discuss the actors who triggered the 2008 financial collapse and the ramifications of the regulatory failure on middle class America. | 4/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Neuroscientist Beau Lotto Demos the Adaptability of the Mind | Neuroscientist Beau Lotto uses a volunteer to demonstrate how the mind can adapt to changes in perception by hitting a target while wearing prism glasses. | 4/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spirit and Opportunity: Roving Mars' Landscape | William J. Clancey, a Chief Scientist at the NASA Ames Center, talks about the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) program. Adjusting to Mars' atmosphere, Clancey shares that the two teams controlling separate rovers even adopted Mars' time schedule. | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Romney and Religion: Is America Ready for a Mormon President? | 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. | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Neurobiologist David Eagleman Looks Underneath the Hood of the Brain | 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. | 4/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 38 Episodes |
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