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Inside Syria – Buffer zone raises tough questions

By dog | Published: September 3, 2012

To be effective, a buffer zone would also need a no-fly zone and that requires a UN Security Council resolution. One that is not likely to come easily. Teymoor Nabili speaks to Halla Diyab, Daniel Ser-wer & , Birol Baskan

Posted in Al Jazeera | Also tagged ahmet, al-assad, aljazeera, ankara, atlanta, bashar, baskan, birol, blogs, buffer, daniel, davutoglu, diyab, doha, east, foreign, georgetown, halla, inside, insidesyria, leicester, middle, of, president, professor, school, ser-wer, service, spokeswoman, syria, syrian, university, writer, youtube, zone | Comments closed

Inside Story: Should Pakistan’s blasphemy laws change?

By dog | Published: August 29, 2012

Are Pakistan’s blasphemy laws being misused to persecute the country’s minorities? Folly Bah Thibault, speaks to Ayesha Tammy Haq, Khalid Rahman, & Aasim Sajjad.

Posted in Al Jazeera | Also tagged aasim, activist, aljazeera, ayesha, bah, barrister, blasphemy, civil, folly, for, haq, inside, insidestory, islamabad, karachi, khalid, masih, Pakistan, Party, policy, quaid-i-azam, rahman, Rights, rimsha, sajjad, story, studies, tammy, thibault, university, workers, youtube | Comments closed

Inside Story – Justice evades Rachel Corrie

By dog | Published: August 29, 2012

Who will take responsibility for activist’s death after Israeli court rules its army was not at fault? Hazem Sika speaks to Jafar Farah, Rami Khouri & Efraim Inbar.

Posted in Al Jazeera | Also tagged advocacy, al, aljazeera, american, arab, bar-ilan, beirut, center, cindy, college, corrie, Craig, Daily, defense, editor, efraim, evergreen, farah, fares, Force, haifa, hazem, idf, inbar, Israel, israelis, issam, jafar, jazeera, jerusalem, khouri, lebanon, mossawa, occupation, of, olympia, Palestine, paratrooper, rachel, rami, sika, star, university, youtube | Comments closed

If US Can’t Fix Politics, Emerging Markets Will Dominate

By dog | Published: August 23, 2012

David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, argues that the United States is a quickly diminishing empire. Rubenstein asserts that unless Congress stops it’s political gridlock, America will be surpassed by emerging China. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged 2012, america, aspen, atlantic, Business, capitol, china, competition, david, democrat, economy, election, emerging, festival, foreign, global, gridlock, hegemony, hill, ideas, international, m, markets, policy, politics, recovery, republican, rubenstein, The | Comments closed

What Environmentalists Can Learn from Monsanto

By dog | Published: August 23, 2012

Allison Carruth, assistant professor of English at UCLA, shares what environmentalists and organic food producers can learn from pesticide creator Monsanto. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged agribusiness, agriculture, allison, aspen, atlantic, Business, carruth, city, development, economy, environment, farming, festival, food, ideas, monsanto, planning, policy, politics, resources, Sustainability, The, urban | Comments closed

Breaking Down the Savings of Green Building Construction

By dog | Published: August 23, 2012

James T. Caldwell, Ph.D., a Director of UCGEC, Chair of its Green Building Task Force outlines the upfront savings from constructing green buildings and the accrued costs annually. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged building, caldwell, cleantech, computing, construction, economy, energy, engineering, environment, future, Green, Internet, james, jobs, mountain, policy, regulation, renewable, revolution, rocky, Sustainability, swissnex, t, technology, ucgec | Comments closed

Hadron Collider: Solving the Great Questions of Physics

By dog | Published: August 19, 2012

Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, acknowledges that there are still a great many cosmic unknowns to discover, even after the purported finding of the Higgs Boson “God Particle” at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged aspen, astronomy, astrophysics, atlantic, boson, brian, collider, cosmos, festival, God, greene, hadron, higgs, ideas, large, lhc, mathematics, particle, particles, Physics, quantum, reality, Science, superstring, switzerland, technology, The, theory, universe | Comments closed

A Liberal Bias? NPR Seeks Truth Not Balance

By dog | Published: August 14, 2012

Gary E. Knell, President and CEO of NPR, acknowledges that the station has a certain perspective, but declares that the news coverage is driven by truth rather than strict balance. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged arts, aspen, atlantic, bias, broadcast, coverage, democracy, e, entertainment, festival, gary, history, ideas, journalism, knell, liberal, media, national, news, newspapers, npr, perspective, politics, public, radio, reporting, station, The, Truth | Comments closed

US Security: 9/11 and Rapid Rise of Private Contractors

By dog | Published: July 31, 2012

Washington Post journalist Dana Priest explains how, in the weeks following the 9/11 attack, Congress’ security funding precipitated a massive budget for private-sector contractors. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged 9/11, budget, carey, conflict, congress, dana, defense, eastwest, federal, foreign, international, policy, politics, priest, security, spending, terrorism, US, wp | Comments closed

Climate Change and the Agricultural Adaption

By dog | Published: July 29, 2012

December 8, 2011 – Environmental Earth System Science Assistant Professor and FSE Center Fellow, David Lobell, gives a lecture about the future of climate change and how the agricultural landscape will have to adapt to these changes. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

Posted in Stanford | Also tagged agricultural, change, climate, crop, earth, environment, food, fse, nation, research, security, senegal, spogli, systems, Woods, World | Comments closed

The Role of Play in Evolution and Survival

By dog | Published: July 29, 2012

Megan Tulac, Director at the National Institute for Play, explains the important role of play in evolutionary history. Some species use play as “training for the unexpected,” says Tulac. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged Behavior, brain, cognition, discovery, emotion, evolution, faire, for, fun, instinct, maker, making, megan, national, Neuroscience, play, Science, species, Survival, tulac | Comments closed

Oskar Eustis: How Shakespeare Made Theater Matter to All

By dog | Published: July 29, 2012

Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater, talks about the genius of William Shakespeare’s mass appeal to distinct and disparate audiences. Eustis believes that the audience makes theater worthwhile. Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged arts, aspen, atlantic, audience, culture, drama, entertainment, eustis, festival, history, ideas, literature, oskar, plays, shakespeare, The, theater, writer | Comments closed

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