Whistle-Blowing
Activist investors face challenges convincing regulators to face the facts, with William Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management and David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital Management
Via CNBC
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Whistle-Blowing, David Einhorn, via CNBC (10:59)
May 13th, 2008 · No Comments
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I’m listening (about 3:00)
March 12th, 2008 · No Comments
I’m listening
From: VictoryFund
What you’re about to hear is a portion of a jaw-dropping speech delivered by an Oklahoma State Representative at a gathering in her district. This is what they say when they think we’re not listening. Learn more at www.victoryfund.org/listening
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Eric Schmidt at HIMSS (49:55)(Google CEO at health conference)
March 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Eric Schmidt at HIMSS
From: Google
Eric Schmidt gives the keynote speech at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Annual Conference in Orlando, on February 28, 2008.
Swivelchair comment: Doctor problems with patients’ use of the internet for health knowledge, and the issue of authority.
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President Clinton responds to Hillary’s “Children” ad. (0:21)
March 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
President Clinton responds to Hillary’s “Children” ad.
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Children (Political - Clinton)(0:26)
March 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Children
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Ellen DeGeneres Discusses The Recent Tragic Death (2:34)
March 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Ellen DeGeneres Discusses The Recent Tragic Death
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Jack and Hill (1:17) (Political, Jack Nicholson)
March 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Jack and Hill
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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (19:29)
February 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
TED 2006:
About this Talk
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that
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Freezing Grand Central
February 28th, 2008 · No Comments
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14 y.o. Skateboarder and Baltimore Cop Temper Tantrum
February 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Skateboarder and Baltimore Cop Temper Tantrum
From: camb0i
Swivelchair note: See also, ABC2 News showing the same Officer now assaulting an art student at the Baltimore Inner Harbor.
BALTIMORE (AP) - A police officer shown on a YouTube video berating and roughly handling a skateboarder at the Inner Harbor was suspended on Monday.
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Behavioral Neuroscience: Jim Coan and the Hand Holding Experiment (4:51)
February 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Jim Coan and the Hand Holding Experiment
From: uvamagazine
Coan and others seek to detect and chart how moods and emotions are embodied in the brain, to map the nexus where the cognitive and the affective meet. Emotion, Coan says, is an organized set of physiological and behavioral responses to environmental stimuli. His [...]
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Microexpression analysis: Facial Expressions Test (interactive)
February 19th, 2008 · No Comments
From CIO.com:
How good are you at interpreting facial expressions? Take our test and find out.
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Ex-Jehovah’s Witness, Therapist discusses MIND CONTROL (7:09)
February 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Ex-Jehovah’s Witness, Therapist discusses MIND CONTROL
From the description:
Interview with Lee Marsh, T.A.S., BA. Hear the rare perspective of this therapist discuss the dynamics of abuse, cult spiritual abuse and mind control, illustrated with her personal experiences. Fascinating, educational, a must see for understanding Jehovah’s Witnesses.
From: exjwvideos via Youtube
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Towards Defining the Autism Phenotype: Dr. Joseph Piven (about 1 hour)
February 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Towards Defining the Autism Phenotype
From the description:
Joseph Piven is a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has studied personality, language, and cognitive characteristics in non-autistic relatives of autistic individuals. He argues that these characteristics are genetically related to autism and are a qualitatively similar but milder expression [...]
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Conversations with History: Psychology, Political Understanding, Judith Herman (55:22)
February 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Conversations with History: Psychology, Political Understanding, Judith Herman
UCTV: UC Berkeley
55 min 22 sec - Mar 11, 2002
www.uctv.tv
Expert who studied post traumatic stress disorder incident to coercive control — such as political, religious, domestic violence, gangs (about 25:00 starts to discuss what happens to people and what is post traumatic stress disorder)
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A Very Different Bobby Fischer (7:05)
February 15th, 2008 · No Comments
NYT Opinion
Dick Cavett: Was It Only a Game?
By Dick Cavett
Published : February 8, 2008
It was a very different Bobby Fischer who appeared on Dick Cavett’s show. . . years ago.
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Authors@Google: Phillip Zimbardo (77:21)
February 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Authors@Google: Phillip Zimbardo
From the YouTube description:
What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it? Renow-ned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The Lucifer Effect he explains how—and the myriad [...]
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Biomarker Release in Traumatic Brain Injury (4:32)
January 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Biomarker release in traumatic brain injury
from Prefectoz via Youtube
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WSJ.com - Studies Cite Head Injuries As Factor in Some Social Ills (3:34)
January 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Wall Street Journal, “WSJ.com” (see also — Neurological Correlates comment) - scroll over title and click, redirects to WSJ video
HIDDEN TRAUMA -Studies Cite Head Injuries As Factor in Some Social Ills
Brain Researchers Link
Mental Woes, Alcoholism
To Long-Ago Blows
By THOMAS M. BURTON
January 29, 2008; Page A1
“New research indicates hidden traumatic brain injuries can cause social or [...]
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USED UP AND SPIT OUT - THE PERSONALITY DISORDER DISCHARGE (4:09)
January 24th, 2008 · No Comments
USED UP AND SPIT OUT - THE PERSONALITY DISORDER DISCHARGE
via Iscott7224, on Youtube
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