Full video - http://fora.tv/2009/05/27/Levin_Enters_the_Fray_Lashes_Out_at_Cheney

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Might perhaps be replaced with a similar talk about Apophis on Fora TV. The clip is immediatly followed by this one.

Edit: Actually, nevermind that. A combination was sifted already.

Whole video: http://fora.tv/2009/05/08/Jeremy_Irons_Reflects_on_His_Career

complete video at fora.tv

excellent sift, between fora, ted, and the plain ol documentaries channel, I don't have enough hours in the day

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Dog, Bounty, Hunter, FORA, TV, Murder' to 'Dog, Bounty, Hunter, FORA, TV, Murder, Texas' - edited by MrFisk

Full version: http://fora.tv/2008/04/16/Herschel_Walker_in_Conversation

The entire lecture is here http://fora.tv/2009/02/25/Azadeh_Moaveni_Honeymoon_in_Tehran

In reply to this comment by GeeSussFreeK:
darn, I wanted to know more and it cut off! Pretty interesting stuff.

I'm a university professor, and I have a lot of reactions to this ad (which I had seen before seeing in VS). I think we are going to see a lot of changes to how education, and group innovation, are fostered over the coming decades. I guess my response to this AS AN AD is twofold:

1. Universities are, to varying extents, embracing technology. It's why I can download podcasts on tons of engineering and science topics. It's why my students use smartphones to give me feedback in the middle of my lectures (they love the little interactive quizzes to find out if I got my point across and continually ask for more of them). It's why we have televised lectures and tele-driven instruction. That isn't available only at some place like Kaplan.

2. At some point, there is no substitute for human contact. As we get better at Telepresense, more of the human contact may be online, but in my classes I use texts, online fora, video, interactive tablets, and my own voice to interact with students. I am forever amazed how many times students have clear descriptions of subject matter, and yet they just can't get it until they are interacting with me. There is something about human-to-human contact that has to be live--not canned.

And it's not just contact with instructors I'm talking about: students mostly need each other. The critical mass effect from having other interested and motivated students in your vicinity is crucial. Working side by side with people in a lab, in the field, or just at the blackboard is powerful, and while we are heading for a time when that sort of "side-by-side" effect can come online, we aren't quite there yet.

3. There are a lot of kinds of education, and no one I know has ever been in favor of "one size fits all." One of my professors at Stanford had no Bachelors Degree: he was just brilliant and self-taught and highly published. Some people thrive that way, but most do not. Universities provide structure, but these days, the structure is flexible, and in many senses, the structure is self-defined. If Kaplan does a good job at that, that will be great, but they won't be alone.

I suspect this comment is too long and no one will read it, but it's a topic I feel strongly about, so I invested the time to try to say what I meant.

>> ^nadabu:
Did anyone else laugh at that "FORA.tv" tagline? "The world is thinking"? Yeah, right. Not nearly enough of it.


"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."

-Soren Kierkegaard

Did anyone else laugh at that "FORA.tv" tagline? "The world is thinking"? Yeah, right. Not nearly enough of it.

The entire debate and discourse is simply fascinating.

This excerpt is taken from a debate between philosophers Bernard-Henri Lévy and Slavoj Žižek on the modern Left. For the complete video, visit: http://fora.tv/2008/09/16/Violence__the_Left_in_Dark_Times_A_Debate

I don't like that they make you go to the TV fora site to see the very end. It would be better if this were ripped and then posted on youtube in its entirety.

Awesome. I haven't seen this speech before. Thank you fora!

The full conference: http://fora.tv/2008/11/17/Power__Sex_Americas_War_on_Sexual_Rights

Very cool. Educated women talking about the issues that are uniquely theirs to discuss, and which they have been excluded from for far too long.