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What's holding back widespread adoption of renewable energy technologies? Cost-effectiveness, for one, notes Daniel Simmons of the Institute for En...

David Ewing Duncan, author of When I'm 164, questions the benefits of living to an advanced age. Despite medical advancement that promise greater e...

Tom Torlakson, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, looks to the retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour to find lessons and...

David Seidel, Deputy Education Director at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, uses a spare wheel from the Mars Curiosity rover to illustrate the imp...

Vince Bertram, Ph.D and president and CEO of Project Lead the Way, explains that while we accept the "practice makes perfect" and "learning from fa...

Technology forecaster Paul Saffo ponders whether advancements in science and medicine would compel society to lengthen the lives of the world's gre...

Jay Banfield, executive director of The Year Up program, and Linda Kornahrens, executive director of JP Morgan Chase, discuss the possibility of th...

Tasmin Smith, Founder and President of SlipStream Strategy, talks about social media as a means to inspire and the importance of finding the right ...

Hunter Walk, Director of Product Management at YouTube, explains how viral sensations like "Gangnam Style" build audiences globally and allow "the ...

Dr. David Schindel, Executive Secretary at the Consortium for the Barcode of Life, explains how DNA barcoding helps identify a species and has the ...

Best of FORA.tv 2012 Technology -- Entrepreneur Mark Cuban shares Apple's biggest business weakness. Cuban argues that Apple products might lose th...

Sal Khan, CEO and Founder of Khan Academy, explains that by making learning personal and less expensive, students can own their education in ways n...

Adanna Chukwuma, Health Policy Fellow at Global Health Corps. show examples of the systemic solutions being applied in Nigeria, Nigeria, to improve...

Michael Zimbalist, Vice President, Research and Development Operations at New York Times, shows off some of the ways the media can view and analyze...

Best of FORA.tv 2012 Technology -- Ed Moses demonstrates how Lawrence Livermore Lab is nearing successful experiments in nuclear fusion that could ...

Rishi Malhotra, President of Saavn, discusses Saavn's partnership with Facebook and how social networks are allowing digital media companies to gro...

Best of FORA.tv 2012 Environment -- Chris Gerdes shows the advances in autonomous vehicles, highlighting their ability to safely navigate race trac...

Best of FORA.tv 2012 Business -- Naveen Jain, Fiona Harrison, and Will Pomerantz discuss the new frontier of the commercial space race.

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Michael Graves, celebrated architect and Founding Partner of Michael Graves & Associates/Michael Graves Design Group, recounts the story of how the...

Best of FORA.tv 2012 -- Professor of Economics Emeritus and author of Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism, Richard Wolff urges the public to o...

Wired's Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly discuss one of the extreme ways some people quantify their lives.

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Karen Cator, Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, looks at teachers as "digital immigrants" and ho...

By asking, "What does a computer engineer look like?" Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls Code, shows how the digital divide has widened betwee...

Filmmaker Nirvan Mullick describes the Global Cardboard Challenge, an annual event that celebrates kids and their communities around the world putt...

Stephen Ritz, founder of Green Bronx Machine, shares how moving the classroom outside to a South Bronx farm raised attendance and got his students ...

Brian Parish, founder of IData Incorporated, looks at how the search engine Passion Dragon uses algorithms to make learning more interactive and ge...

Shuman Ghosemajumder, co-founderof TeachAIDs, discusses taking a biological approach to HIV education - understanding it first as a virus, as a way...

Khalid Smith, Education Leader for Startup Weekend, looks at the importance of project-based learning and bringing together ideas from the educatio...

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Kiff Gallagher talks about how the idea of national service inspired him to found MusicianCorps, a way for musicians to be creative while giving ba...

Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, founders of Smarthistory at Khan Academy, explain how a multimedia approach to art history allows students to contex...

Matt Harding, creator and star of the viral video "Where the Hell Is Matt?", talks about his world travels and his experience of learning to share ...

Mary Anne Schmitt-Carey, President of Say Yes to Education, Inc., offers strategies to improve in-school support and get better outcomes from educa...

Joan Blades, founder of MomsRising and MoveOn.org, introduces Living Room Conversations, an open-source project to bring civility to conversations ...

Naif Al-Mutawa, creator of The 99, talks about the reaction to his comic book - about superheroes from the Islamic and Middle Eastern world - incl...

UC Berkeley Linguistics and Cognitive Science Professor George Lakoff looks at how we communicate through education and stresses the importance of...

Vivian Mann, director of the Master's Program in Jewish Art and Visual Culture at The Jewish Theological Seminar, describes Jewish Islamic art and ...

Gene Sperling predicts that extending tax relief for middle income families would have immediate positive effects on consumer confidence and have a...

Sheila Bair explains how why its financially smarter in fixing the housing crisis to help homeowners instead of big banks.

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Jeffrey Toobin, author and legal commentator for CNN, Emily Bazelon of Slate, and NYU Law School professor Kenji Yoshino discuss the possible impac...

Jeffrey Toobin, author and legal analyst for CNN, shares a story about how Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia characterized Justice Clarence Thom...

Dr. Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society, gives an example of the occasionally serious unintended consequences that c...

United States Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) of the Senate Armed Services Committee argues that Congress must put a greater emphasis on the importan...

Michael O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, discusses Congress' quandary of finding $60 billion in spending cuts. O'Hanlon argues...