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Daily video podcasts from FORA.tv.
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2. 2008-07-01_Dionne_religion_16x9_vid_itunes .. (played 14 times)
3. 2008-09-04_Ellsberg_fisa_16x9_vid_itunes.m .. (played 16 times)
4. 2008-09-17_Bloomberg_origins_16x9_vid_itun .. (played 9 times)
5. 2008-08-07_Hedges_iraq_16x9_vid_itunes.mp4 (played 10 times)
6. 2008-07-28_Republican_values_16x9_vid_itun .. (played 10 times)
7. 2008-07-09_Stroh_debt_16x9_vid_itunes.mp4 (played 10 times)
8. 2008-07-15_Obama_iraq_4x3_vid_itunes.mp4 (played 10 times)
9. 2008-08-14_McCain_gitmo_4x3_vid_itunes.mp4 (played 11 times)
10. 2008-08-27_affleck_africa_16x9_vid_02_itun .. (played 11 times)
11. 2008-09-17_Chaput_palin_16x9_vid_itunes.mp .. (played 11 times)
12. 2008-09-16_Healthcare_single_player_16x9_v .. (played 8 times)
13. 2008-08-12_Pelosi_women_politics_16x9_vid_ .. (played 7 times)
14. 2008-09-30_Nader_bailout_16x9_vid_itunes.m .. (played 8 times)
15. 2008-07-30_Venter_race_4x3_vid_itunes.mp4 (played 9 times)
16. 2008-07-26_Dalai_Lama_capitalism_4x3_vid_i .. (played 8 times)
17. 2008-09-09_zogby_racism_4x3_vid_itunes.mp4 (played 7 times)
18. 2008-10-02_Greenspan_crisis_16x9_vid_itune .. (played 8 times)
19. 2008-09-12_pinker_pol_language_16x9_vid_it .. (played 8 times)
20. 2008-09-02_Prop_8_gay_marriage_16x9_vid_it .. (played 9 times)
21. 2008-09-23_Black_Church_Obama_Wright_16x9_ .. (played 7 times)
22. 2008-09-23_Friedman_americans_4x3_vid_itun .. (played 8 times)
23. 2008-07-31_Waters_edible_education_16x9_vi .. (played 6 times)
24. 2008-07-15_Sachs_three_challenges_16x9_vid .. (played 6 times)
25. 2008-07-02_Young_obama_16x9_vid_itunes.mp4 (played 6 times)
26. 2008-10-01_ME_Dyson_wright_16x9_vid_itunes .. (played 6 times)
27. 2008-10-09_Forbes_obama_taxes_4x3_vid_itun .. (played 6 times)
28. 2008-10-16_Klein_bailout_16x9_vid_itunes.m .. (played 6 times)
29. 2008-10-12_Talbot_palin_16x9_vid_itunes.mp .. (played 6 times)
30. 2008-09-02_Norquist_liberals_16x9_vid_itun .. (played 7 times)
31. 2008-09-25_BHL_Palin_Obama_16x9_vid_itunes .. (played 7 times)
32. 2008-09-03_Lieberman_iraq_4x3_vid_itunes.m .. (played 6 times)
33. 2008-10-21_Shaw_gop_16x9_vid_itunes.mp4 (played 2 times)
34. 2008-10-24_lowenstein_pro_ec-16x9-8105_itu .. (played 2 times)
35. 2008-10-27_Tomasky_obama_16x9_itunes.mp4 (played 2 times)
36. 2008-10-27_Palin_future_16x9_vid_itunes.mp .. (played 1 times)
37. 2008-08-01_Viravaidya_condoms_16x9_vid_itu .. (played 1 times)
38. 2008-09-01_Frum_gop_4x3_vid_itunes.mp4 (played 2 times)
39. 2008-10-24_lin_FORAcast-16x9-8162_itunes.m .. (played 1 times)
40. 2008-09-25_Wilczek_LHC_16x9_vid_itunes.mp4 (played 1 times)
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Kathy Marks on Pitcairn Island: A Paradise Lost
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/24/Kathy_Marks_Pitcairn_Lost
Journalist Kathy Marks discusses the strange society of Pitcairn Island, a tiny, isolated, South Pacific colony of descendants of the mutineers from the HMS Bounty, and the subject of a recent series of internationally-publicized rape trials.
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Pitcairn Island -- where Fletcher Christian's descendants live -- was until recently a rarely visited British outpost perched in the South Pacific; a tropical paradise.
In 2000, British police, alerted by unsettling reports of rape, descended on the island, one of the most isolated places on Earth and home to just 47 people, mostly related.
Their investigation developed into a major inquiry that uncovered widespread child sexual abuse dating back generations.
Scarcely a Pitcairn man was untainted by the allegations, and almost none of the women had escaped. Yet most residents, including victims' mothers, feigned ignorance, claiming that the abuse -- perpetrated on girls as young as three -- was part of their "way of life".
Pitcairn, it transpired, was a real-life Lord of the Flies story of a place without rules, a society gone badly astray.
Kathy Marks was one of a handful of journalists permitted to live on the island while she reported on the ensuing trials and witnessed Pitcairn's domestic workings first hand.
In Pitcairn: Paradise Lost she documents a society gone badly astray, leaving lives shattered, codes broken and a paradise truly lost - Sydney Writer's Festival
Kathy Marks is the Asia-Pacific correspondent for the UK's Independent, and is the author of the book, Pitcairn: Paradise Lost.
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Husain Haqqani - Pakistan and the War on Terrorism
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/27/Pakistani_Ambassador_Husain_Haqqani
Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani discusses his country's views on the fight against international terrorism.
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His Excellency Ambassador Husain Haqqani speaks to the World Affairs Council of Washington about recent events in his country including the impact of the recent election of President Asif Zadari, U.S. Pakistan relations, efforts to confront the Taliban and more.
Husain Haqqani is the Pakistan Ambassador to the United States.
Husain Haqqani was previously a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., and an associate professor of International Relations at Boston University.
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Haqqani acquired traditional Islamic learning as well as a modern education in International Relations. His journalism career started with work as East Asian correspondent for The Islamic World Review during the turbulent years following the Iranian revolution. During this period he wrote extensively on Muslims in China and East Asia and Islamic political movements around the world. Later, as Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, he covered the war in Afghanistan and acquired deep understanding of militant Islamist Jihadi groups.
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Arthur Caplan - Genetic Engineering and Children
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/14/Ethics_of_Using_Biomedicine_to_Enhance_Ourselves
Arthur Caplan, Director of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses ethical issues concerning genetic engineering and genetically handicapped children.
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Arthur Caplan discusses Is it Immoral to Want to Live Longer, Be Smarter and Look Better? The Ethics of Using Biomedicine to Enhance Ourselves and Our Children as a part of The Ethical Frontiers of Science during the 2008 Chautauqua Institution morning lecture series.
Arthur Caplan serves as the Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and the Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
He is the author or editor of twenty-five books and over 500 papers in refereed journals of medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics and health policy. His most recent book is Smart Mice Not So Smart People (2006).
He has served on a number of national and international committees, including as the chair of the National Cancer Institute Biobanking Ethics Working Group; the chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning; the chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability; the special advisory committee to the International Olympic Committee on genetics and gene therapy; the ethics committee of the American Society of Gene Therapy; and the special advisory panel to the National Institutes of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects.
Dr. Caplan writes a regular column on bioethics for MSNBC.com, and he is a frequent guest and commentator on various media outlets. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the McGovern Medal of the American Medical Writers Association; Person of the Year-2001 from USA Today, one of the fifty most influential people in American health care by Modern Health Care magazine; and one of the ten most influential people in America in biotechnology by the National Journal.
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Roy Blount, Jr - Why the F-word Works
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/10/Roy_Blount_Jr_The_Sounds_Roots_and_History_of_Words
Humorist author Roy Blount, Jr. examines the visceral power of the "F-word" by contrasting it with other, less effective verbal interjections.
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Roy Blount, Jr. talks about Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips.
After 40 years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, NPR panelist Blount still can't get over his ABCs. In this work he celebrates the sonic and kinetic energies of letters and their combinations - Book Passage
Roy Blount's writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Playboy, Vanity Fair, GQ, Rolling Stone, and National Geographic. His work has also been anthologized in such collections as The Best of Modern Humor, The Elvis Reader, The Ultimate Baseball Book, and The Sophisticated Cat.
He is the author of seventeen books, including Crackers (1982), About Three Bricks Shy of a Load (1986), Soupsongs and Webster's Ark (1988), Camels Are Easy, Comedy's Hard (1991), First Hubby (1991), Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor (1994), which contains overs 150 short stories, sketches, essays, poems, memoirs, and lyrics, Be Sweet: A Memoir (1998), Robert E. Lee (2003), and several books cowritten with Valerie Shaff. Blount currently lives in western Massachusetts and New York City. For a more comprehensive biography see Blount's official Web site.
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Jim Nantz - Hanging out with Clinton and Bush 41
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/11/Jim_Nantz_Always_By_My_Side
Sportscaster Jim Nantz recalls his experiences while tagging along on a recreational weekend with former U.S. Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
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Jim Nantz talks about his new book, Always By My Side.
One of America's most visible sports commentators relives some of the most dramatic moments in football, basketball, and golf and pays tribute to his beloved father, the man who inspired him to pursue his broadcasting dream.
Includes book foreword by President George H. W. Bush - Book Passage
Jim Nantz has covered virtually every sport for the CBS Television Network since joining it in 1985. This year marks Nantz's 23rd year covering the NCAA Men's Division I National Championship. He has called the play-by-play on more network broadcasts of the Final Four and Championship game than any other announcer in the tournament's history. From 1986 to 1990, he served as host of CBS's coverage of the NCAA Tournament and Final Four.
Nantz has been the lead play-by-play voice for the NFL on CBS since the 2004 season, joining lead analyst Phil Simms on the Network's number one NFL announce team. For six years, he anchored the Network's NFL pre-game studio show, The NFL TODAY. His extensive credits include serving as host of The Super Bowl Today, CBS Sports' Super Bowl XXXV and Super Bowl XXXVIII pre-game show; anchor of CBS's golf coverage, including the Masters and the PGA Championship; lead play-by-play announcer for college basketball, including the Final Four and Championship game; and primetime host of CBS Sports' coverage of the 1998 Olympic Winter Games.
Nantz was named the 2007 National Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. Nantz, Pat Summerall, Chris Schenkel, Ray Scott and John Madden are the only commentators to ever win the award while working at CBS Sports. He previously won the award in 2005 and 1998 and joined Schenkel and Scott as the only CBS broadcasters to win the award more than once. Nantz also was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as the youngest recipient of the Curt Gowdy Media Award in 2002.
He is the author of the book, Always By My Side: A Father's Grace and a Sports Journey Unline Any Other.
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Jennifer Heldmann - How the Moon was Created
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/07/Jennifer_Heldmann_The_Moon
NASA scientist Jennifer Heldmann describes the most popular theory of how the Earth's moon was formed.
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Let's talk about the moon.
In my opinion it's the best celestial body to observe ? it's big enough to see in captivating detail without a telescope and it doesn't thank you for your wonderment by burning out your eyeballs. And while it may lack the kaleidoscopic coloring, dynamic vitality, and exotic mystery of some of the other local orbs, our moon is the old friend we wouldn't want to lose.
Tonight we'll learn all about our trusty sidekick ? the theories on its formation, predictions about its future, its internal structure, its geological past and present, and the many ways in which it affects the earth.
We'll discover how the moon impacts our climate, how it got locked in a synchronous rotation with the earth, how tides work, and why some scientists suggest that without the moon life on earth may never have developed - Ask a Scientist
Dr. Jennifer Heldmann has worked closely with the Astrobiology Academy at NASA Ames Research Center for the past five years to conduct research regarding the habitability of other planets. Heldmann also worked at NASA Ames under the direction of Dr. Chris McKay on a variety of projects including extreme physical conditions supporting life in Antarctica, collecting experimental data regarding the soil chemistry of martian simulant soils, and conducting field work in the Mars analog environment of the Canadian High Arctic to study cold perennial springs flowing in polar desert conditions. Heldmann has also participated in simulated Mars missions by living in Mars habitat modules and is very excited for the promising future of Mars exploration. Heldmann is now working at the NASA Ames Research Center as a National Research Council Post-doctoral fellow during this very exciting time of solar system exploration.
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Marian Wright Edelman - Child Poverty in America
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/27/Marian_Wright_Edelman_A_Course_for_the_Next_Generation
Children's Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman criticizes child poverty rates in America, using the image of a family with six children who only care for five.
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Marian Wright Edelman talks about her new book The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation.
The founder of the Children's Defense Fund looks back on what has been done, and what needs to be done, to make the nation and world safe and fair for all children. - Book Passage
Marian Wright Edelman was born in and grew up in Bennettsville, South Carolina, one of five children. In 1963, after graduating from Yale Law School, Marian Wright Edelman worked first in New York for the NAACP Legal and Defense Fund, and then in Mississippi for the same organization. There, she became the first African American woman to practice law. During her time in Mississippi, she worked on racial justice issues connected with the civil rights movement, and she also helped get a Head Start program established in her community.
During a tour by Robert Kennedy and Joseph Clark of Mississippi's poverty-ridden Delta slums, Marian met Peter Edelman, an assistant to Kennedy, and the next year she moved to Washington, D.C., to marry him and to work for social justice in the center of America's political scene. They had three sons.As part of the efforts of Marian Wright Edelman and the Children's Defense Fund on behalf of children, she has also advocated pregnancy prevention, child care funding, health care funding, prenatal care, parental responsibility for education in values, reducing the violent images presented to children, and selective gun control in the wake of school shootings.
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R. James Woolsey - U.S. Energy Independence and Democracy Abroad
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/14/International_Security_and_the_Next_President_of_the_US
R. James Woolsey, former CIA Director and Security Advisor to Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain, argues that a dependence on foreign energy sources undermines U.S. efforts to encourage democratic reforms in regions such as the Middle East.
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The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Dependence on expensive foreign oil. Challenging diplomacy with nuclear-armed countries.
America's next president needs a strong vision and stronger will to tackle these formidable tasks and those that lie ahead.
Which candidate is best equipped to meet these challenges?
A panel of top advisers to the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees addresses each candidate's plan to improve our international security - The Commonwealth Club of California
Robert James Woolsey is vice president of the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and an officer in its global resilience practice. Previously, Woolsey served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and delegate-at-large to the US-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks. He has also been a partner in the law firm of Shea and Gardner in Washington, DC.Woolsey is currently co-chairman (with former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the Committee on the Present Danger, as well as chairman of the advisory boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council and a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He also serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy.
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Ian Plimer - Environmentalism Is the New Religion
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/08/19/Would_We_Be_Better_Off_Without_Religion
Australian geologist Ian Plimer argues that, for many agnostics and atheists, the cause of environmentalism has replaced organized religion as a matter of personal faith.
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While the world's religions have inspired stunning acts of creation, they also have been implicated in some of the darkest deeds in human history.
If God cannot be blamed for such moments of evil, His priests and prophets at least have a case to answer.
So what might they say? That religion is unfairly blamed -- and that we should look to other factors? Admit that there are problems but argue that on balance the good outweighs the bad? That there is no alternative; that people need religion like they need air? - Intelligence Squared
Ian Plimer is Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne and Professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide. He is a prominent critic of creationism, and is famous for a debate with creationist Duane Gish in which he asked his opponent to hold live electrical cables to prove that electromagnetism was 'only a theory'. He has published over 120 academic papers and six popular books. He is also a prominent member of the Australian Skeptics. In 2004 he was awarded the Calrk Medal by the Rioyal Society of NSW. In the late 1990s, Plimer was involved in legal proceedings concerning the location of Noah's Ark, in which Plimer was ultimately unsuccessful. His most recent book, Telling Lies For God, has a forward by Archbishop Peter Hollingsworth. Professor Plimer argues that religion is important for the fabric of society.
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Schwarzenegger to Detroit: "Get Off Your Butt" on Low-Emission Vehicles
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/26/Arnold_Schwarzenegger_on_Keeping_California_Cool
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger criticizes the American automobile industry for its reluctance to embrace environmentally-friendly innovations.
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In signing a landmark climate change law two years ago, Governor Schwarzenegger put California ahead of the parade to a low-carbon economy. "The global warming debate is over," he declared. Public awareness has surged since then, but most of the hard work still lies ahead.
How will California meet its goal of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases 25 percent by 2020? Will offshore oil drilling be resumed? Who will pay for the transition to sustainable energy? Will California's energy and environmental laws become part of a national plan under a new president?
The governor will provide an update and his vision of the road ahead - The Commonwealth Club of California
Arnold Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, businessman, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the state of California.
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Walter Dellinger - The Second Amendment's "Militia" Question
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/25/Winning_the_DC_Gun_Ban_Case_The_Attorneys_Discuss
Former Solicitor General to the U.S. Supreme Court Walter Dellinger argues that, based on the history of the term "militia" as it relates to the U.S. Constitution, the 2nd Amendment should not be read to imply an individual's right to bear arms.
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The lead attorneys who argued the DC Gun Ban Case, District of Columbia v. Heller, discuss the strategies that won and lost the case.
The panel is hosted by the Patton Boggs Foundation and includes Walter Dellinger, lead counsel for the District of Columbia in Heller and Alan Gura, lead counsel for plaintiff Heller.
The panel is moderated by Lorianne Updike, Esq., co-founder of ConSource.org, the online library of primary constitutional sources containing many of the primary sources used in Heller.
Walter Dellinger is the Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law at Duke University. He returned to Duke in August, 1997, after having served as acting Solicitor General for the 1996-97 Term of the Supreme Court.
After serving in early 1993 in the White House as an advisor to the President on constitutional issues, Dellinger was nominated by the President to be Assistant Attorney General and head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and was confirmed by the Senate for that position in October, 1993. During his three years as Assistant Attorney General he served as the Department's principal legal advisor to the Attorney General and the President.
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David Talbot - Revisiting the Kennedy Assassination
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/12/David_Talbot_Author_and_Founder_of_Salon
Author and Salon.com Founder David Talbot explains his belief that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was orchestrated by high-ranking individuals in the CIA and the Pentagon.
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Best-selling author and salon.com founder David Talbot presents his often controversial ideas about the Kennedy dynasty, Barack Obama's appeal, and the "fiction" of Sarah Palin.
Hailed as a "pioneer of online journalism" by the New York Times, David Talbot is the founder and former editor in chief of Salon. Talbot has worked as a senior editor for Mother Jones magazine and as a features editor for the San Francisco Examiner. Talbot has written for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone and other publications. He is the author of Brothers: A Hidden Journey of the Kennedy Years.
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