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[View \| Download]	Inside the 1996 Everest Disaster - Ken Kamler Dr. Kenneth Kamler recalls his harrowing experience on a climb towards the summit of Mt. Everest in 1996 when a lethal 2-day storm kicked up. The event, documented by writer Jon Krakauer in his bestselling book Into Thin Air, would lead to the deaths of eight climbers and leave several others -- including Kamler -- stranded and fighting for their lives. In this presentation, Kamler explores the effects of the disaster, the rescue, and the relentless drive of human survival. EG is the celebration of the American entertainment industry. Since 1984, Richard Saul Wurman has created extraordinary gatherings about learning and understanding. EG is a rich extension of these ideas - a conference that explores the attitude of understanding in music, film, television, radio, technology, advertising, gaming, interactivity and the web - The Entertainment Gathering Kenneth "Ken" Kamler is a microsurgeon and mountain climber. Kamler was chosen by New York Magazine as one of New York City's best doctors in 2002. He is a microsurgeon trained at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center who also practices extreme medicine in the most remote corners of the world. He has served as chief high altitude physician for the NASA-sponsored research in human physiological responses to extreme altitude. As covered in the book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, in May 1996, Kamler was at Camp III on Mount Everest preparing for a summit attempt when a ferocious storm engulfed three teams of climbers returning from the peak. As the only doctor on the mountain when the storm hit, he treated the survivors as they descended from Camp IV. A climber and doctor on many Everest expeditions, he has worked with National Geographic to carry out geological research and precision mapping using laser telescopes and global positioning satellite beacons. He appeared on ABC's Nightline in the first-ever live interview from Everest base camp. and has appeared many times on national television. Kamler lives in the New York City area. Tags: adventure, air, climbers, climbing, death, everest, fora, fora.tv, foratv, freezing, frostbite, hypothermia, ice, into, john, jon, k2, krakauer, mount, mountain, mountaineering, outdoor, snow, survival, thin, travel, tv, wilderness, winter 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Flip This Classroom: Khan Academy Brings Lectures Home Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/wired_business_conference_2011 Salman Khan describes how Khan Academy, his popular YouTube-based virtual lecture series, has "flipped" the traditional homework model for some classrooms. "The lecture now happens at home, and homework happens in the classroom," says Khan. "Now you've turned the classroom into this interactive experience." ----- The Real YouTube Revolution: A New Way to Teach Everything. Featuring Salman Khan, Founder, Khan Academy, in conversation with Clive Thompson, Contributing Editor, WIRED. Salman Khan is the founder and one-man faculty of the Khan Academy, a nonprofit with the mission of providing free, high-quality education to "anyone, anywhere" in the world. A hedge fund analyst with degrees from MIT and Harvard, Khan was helping a young cousin with math in 2004, communicating by phone and using an interactive notepad. When others expressed interest, he began posting videos of his hand-scribbled tutorials on YouTube. Demand took off, and in 2009 he quit his day job. The Khan Academy website now provides self-pacing software and unlimited access to over 2,200 instructional videos on its YouTube channel, targeting the K-12 grade levels. It's the most-used library of educational videos on the web, with over a million unique students per month and over 45 million lessons delivered. In 2009, the academy received the Microsoft Tech Award for Education. The following year, it was selected from among 150,000 submissions as one of five "world-changing" ideas in Google's Project 10^100. Tags: business, class, classrooms, conference, educational, educators, fora, fora.tv, foratv, homework, instructing, instructions, internet, khan, learning, lectures, salman, schools, students, teachers, teaching, tools, tutor, tutoring, tv, wired, work, youtube 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Iraq, the Neocons and the Israel Lobby - John Mearsheimer Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1967 Author and political scientist John J. Mearsheimer argues that neoconservative and pro-Israel lobby groups were both greatly influential to the U.S. decision to go to war in Iraq. ----- John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt discuss "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." What is at the heart of the special relationship between the United States and the state of Israel? Does Israel truly represent a strategic U.S. asset in the Middle East? Are the two nations really partners in the same "War on Terror", with the same threats up against them, and the same interests at stake? Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt had become well-known authorities in our understanding of contemporary international relations theory, security, and policy long before their collaboration on The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. Atlantic Monthly approached the pair in the fall of 2002 to research the depth of influence of the pro-Israel lobby on U.S. policy. By the time they returned with the results of their research, the magazine's editor had decided not to go ahead with the piece, and was not even interested in a revision. At the prompting of an American academic peer, they decided to submit the article to the London Review of Books where it was finally published in March of 2006. Mearsheimer and Walt argue that if there ever truly were significant strategic (i.e. balance of power considerations during the Cold War) and/or moral (i.e. common Judeo-Christian and democratic values) grounds to justify the unique level of American support afforded the Jewish state, they have long been exhausted. Has this unwavering support made Israel a liability in U.S. foreign policy? And, does this special relationship threaten, rather than enhance, American security in the Middle East, in the world, and at home? - World Affairs Council of Oregon John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. Tags: aipac, ajc, bush, east, fora, fora.tv, foratv, foreign, house, iraqi, israelis, lobbying, lobbyists, middle, mideast, neoconservatives, policy, saddam, tv, war, white 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)