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Back to SearchJim Richardson: Heirlooms
### Save Agricultural Biodiversity Humanity’s agricultural legacy is on a par with any of our great cultural legacies, Richardson said, but preservin…
14 years, 2 months ago
Lawrence Lessig: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It
### Public Funding for Public Elections Larry Lessig gave a rousing performance for the 100th Seminar About Long-Term Thinking. In a lawyerly fashion…
14 years, 3 months ago
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 6
Held at the historic Castro Theater, almost 1,400 enthusiastic San Francisco history buffs packed in to partake of guerrilla archivist Rick Prelinger…
14 years, 4 months ago
Brewster Kahle: Universal Access to All Knowledge
### All knowledge, to all people, for all time, for free Universal access to all knowledge, Kahle declared, will be one of humanity's greatest achiev…
14 years, 5 months ago
Laura Cunningham: Ten Millennia of California Ecology
### Eco-continuity in California California ecology used to be much more driven by floods and fires, Cunningham said, showing with her paintings how…
14 years, 6 months ago
Timothy Ferriss: Accelerated Learning in Accelerated Times
### Learning to learn fast To acquire "the meta-skill of acquiring skills," Ferriss recommends approaching any subject with some contrarian analysis:…
14 years, 7 months ago
Geoffrey B West: Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster
### Superlinear Cities "It's hard to kill a city," West began, "but easy to kill a company." The mean life of companies is 10 years. Cities routinely…
14 years, 9 months ago
Peter Kareiva: Conservation in the Real World
### Environmentalism for THIS Century Kareiva began by recalling the environmental "golden decade" of 1965-75, set in motion by the scientist Rachel …
14 years, 10 months ago
Carl Zimmer: Viral Time
### What's time to a virus? "Everything about viruses is extreme," Zimmer began. The number of viruses on Earth is estimated to be 1 followed by 31 z…
14 years, 10 months ago
Tim Flannery: Here on Earth
### Wallace beats Darwin The great insight of natural selection was published simultaneously by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace in 1858, Fl…
14 years, 11 months ago