FORA.TV 6/8-6-14/09
Topic: FORA.tv
| | JUNE 8TH - JUNE 14TH 2009
| | The Big Question:
Toys or Weapons?
As someone who has worked for both toy companies and the military, Ralph Osterhout describes the relationship between the two as perverse and symbiotic. His evidence: kids' night vision goggles, remote control cars, and robots. Meanwhile, WIRED's Chris Anderson and a community of enthusiasts have taken the unmanned aerial vehicle (a plaything and a weapon) in a different direction, utilizing it as a platform for low-cost, high-performance, open source innovation.
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| ENVIRONMENT
Scientist Jim Hansen Talks Climate Change
The head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Jim Hansen, describes the various changes underway in planetary atmospheres related to our actions on Earth.
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| ECONOMY
Jack and Suzy Welch Offer Advice to College Grads
The ubiquitous power couple offer straight talk to those earning their diplomas this spring. Instead of a rah-rah follow your dream speech, they recommend taking whatever decent jobs are available in this difficult time.
| |  | CULTURE
The Most Spectacular Failure on MythBusters
| Appearing at the 4th annual Maker Faire Bay Area, MythBusters co-host Adam Savage talks about failure --
the unmitigated, colossal failures he's experienced during his career.
|  | POLITICS
Did Big Media Ignore Autopsy Reports on Iraqi Prisoners?
| Professor Peter Phillips reprimands the mainstream media for underreporting the murders of dozens of Iraqi and Afghani civilians held in U.S. military custody. He cites autopsy reports released in 2006 that listed their causes of death as homicide.
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