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FORA.tv helps intelligent, engaged audiences get smart. Our users find, enjoy, and share videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world.
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FORA.tv Doomsday 2012: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson describes the potential collision between Earth and a stadium-sized asteroid.
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Tyson discredits the doomsday theory that Planet X, aka Nibiru, will return to our solar system in 2012, disrupting the Earth's polarity. Nibiru, he says, is simply a "marvelous work of fiction."
We're pleased to announce that FORA.tv is now available on the iPhone.Thanks to all of you who have written in requesting an iPhone app. Your wish was truly our command...
FORA.tv Journalist Lewis M. Simons tracks the spread of Sharia law and fundamental Islam to several remote, improvised islands of Indonesia.
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Lewis M. Simons, journalist and co-author of The Next Front, tells of how Sharia law has supplanted constitutional law in some remote Indonesian islands. The poverty stricken residents have allowed Muslim clerics to collaborate with military and police officials to enforce the Islamic religious law.
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The swine flu. Is it a deadly virus, which will wreak worldwide disaster? Or is it a less common mutation of regular seasonal influenza? Will millions of healthy adults die from exposure? What about healthy children? Or, will H1N1 kill only those with underlying medical conditions?
Watch and join the conversation about the threat of swine flu.
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The experts battle over this contentious -- and alarming -- issue in the following series of clips. While some argue that heart disease is more deadly than H1N1, others warn of the grave national security risk the virus presents.
FORA.tv The New York Time's Andrew Ross Sorkin explains how he convinced top Wall Street insiders to spill the beans on the financial collapse.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin explains the research method behind his book Too Big to Fail, which reconstructs pivotal moments of Wall Street's financial crisis. Sorkin interviewed over 200 industry insiders in order to accurately chronicle the historic collapse.
FORA.tv Think your doctor's hands are clean? Think again. Disturbing statistics on how often hospital MDs actually wash their hands.
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SuperFreakonomics authors Stephen Dubner and Steve Levitt reveal a disturbing statistic on how often hospital doctors actually wash their hands. Levitt discusses how one hospital successfully addressed the issue by growing a petri dish culture from a particularly grimy hand.
FORA.tv From suicide by a love potion to suffocating in cow dung, Simon Critchley gives a brief history of the deaths of famous philosophers.
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Philosopher Simon Critchley surveys the ill-fated deaths of well-known philosophers -- stories he describes as "weirdness, madness, suicide, murder, bad luck, pathos and some very dark humor."
FORA.tv Can positive thinking be dangerous? Author and activist Barbara Ehrenreich thinks so. In fact, she says "delusional" positivity may have helped crash the US economy.
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Barbara Ehrenreich criticizes the "delusional" positivity that has permeated American culture. She suggests that so-called "negative" realists are persecuted for their attitudes, particularly in business.
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Hi. What happened to the audio archives from City Arts & Lectures
and UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library? They've all been taken down. I only got to hear a few. Will they be re-posted at FORA.tv?
FORA.tv John Freeman breaks down the psychology of email addiction. Are you constantly check your inbox? If so, you may want to stay away from Las Vegas.
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John Freeman describes the psychology behind compulsive email checking. He explains that the neurological effects of constantly checking your inbox are similar to those of playing a slot machine.
On November 5, FORA.tv is proud to be the media partner of LuxuryLab and NYU Stern's Luxury & Retail Club as they hold their first-ever Innovation Forum, an unprecedented event addressing the rapidly changing luxury marketplace...
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Noted travel writer Rick Steves compares drug laws here and abroad and argues it's time to end the pot prohibition.
"There's not a reservoir of people just wishing they could ruin their lives with drugs if only it was legal," says Steves.
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Travel author Rick Steves advocates a tolerance towards alternative lifestyles in the United States and calls for more liberal laws concerning the use of soft drugs like marijuana.
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Legendary underground comic artist Robert Crumb reflects on illustrating the "primitive morality" found in the Book of Genesis. "If you're going to use that [Genesis] for moral guidance, I think you're going to be in trouble," says Crumb.
