http://bravenewfilms.org/topics/nyu 2008-10-31T03:30:08Z http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/54486-grittv-greg-grandin-on-the-conflict-in-bolivia 2008-10-31T03:30:08Z GRITtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BxiOrLEhons&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BxiOrLEhons&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/54486-grittv-greg-grandin-on-the-conflict-in-bolivia"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/66112" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>In Bolivia, wealthy landowners have vowed to make their country ungovernable as a last ditch effort to undermine the democratically elected President Evo Morales - who recently expanded his mandate with a landslide victory in a referendum. 67% of voters backed Morales's plan to redistribute wealth and nationalize the country's hydrocarbon resources.</p> <p>But the elites arent having it. The conflict has claimed at least 30 lives so far in Pando province, which was put under martial law on Friday, September 13. Alleging a coup plot, US envoys have now been dismissed from Bolivia, Venezuela, and Honduras.</p> <p>On GRITtv we take a closer look at what is happening in Bolivia and Latin America with NYU Professor of History Greg Grandin, the author of Empires Workshop. You can see the full interview at GRITtv. org. </p> </div> <a href="/blog/54486-grittv-greg-grandin-on-the-conflict-in-bolivia">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/49507-shame-on-you-nyu 2008-12-04T10:20:42Z Marc Bousquet <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QtI6HGs0sy0&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QtI6HGs0sy0&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/49507-shame-on-you-nyu"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/60040" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Administrators retaliate against graduate employees, with high costs for faculty and undergraduates as well. Part 4 of 4</p> </div> <a href="/blog/49507-shame-on-you-nyu">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/42908-authors-google-gary-marcus 2008-10-28T15:30:19Z AtGoogleTalks <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P0fsz8qibCU&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P0fsz8qibCU&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/42908-authors-google-gary-marcus"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/48450" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>The Authors@Google program welcomed Dr. Gary Marcus to Google's New York office to discuss his new book "KLUGE: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind".</p> <p>Are we noble in reason? Perfect, in God's image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus argues that the mind is not an elegantly designed organ but rather a "kluge," a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. He unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the human mind -- think duct tape, not supercomputer -- that sheds light on some of the most mysterious aspects of human nature.</p> <p>Taking us on a tour of the fundamental areas of human experience -- memory, belief, decision-making, language, and happiness -- Marcus reveals the myriad ways our minds fall short. He examines why people often vote against their own interests, why money can't buy happiness, why leaders often stick to bad decisions, and why a sentence like "people people left left" ties us in knots even though it's only four words long.</p> <p>Marcus also offers surprisingly effective ways to outwit our inner kluge, for the betterment of ourselves and society. Throughout, he shows how only evolution -- haphazard and undirected -- could have produced the minds we humans have, while making a brilliant case for the power and usefulness of imperfection.</p> <p>This event took place on June 18, 2008</p> </div> <a href="/blog/42908-authors-google-gary-marcus">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/35064-jay-rosen-of-nyu-the-web-is-people 2008-10-17T09:30:53Z Carnegie Council <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WCgvkslCzTo&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WCgvkslCzTo&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/35064-jay-rosen-of-nyu-the-web-is-people"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38544" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Jay Rosen of NYU and PressThink argues that the Web is people, and describes the origins of the World Wide Web.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/35064-jay-rosen-of-nyu-the-web-is-people">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/35063-jay-rosen-of-nyu-on-the-ethic-of-the-link 2008-10-17T09:30:53Z Carnegie Council <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RIMB9Kx18hw&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RIMB9Kx18hw&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/35063-jay-rosen-of-nyu-on-the-ethic-of-the-link"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38543" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Jay Rosen of NYU and PressThink describes the ethic of the link in blogging and news media.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/35063-jay-rosen-of-nyu-on-the-ethic-of-the-link">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/2595-gop-find-the-illegal-immigrant-game-catches-flak 2008-11-01T03:32:19Z TheNation <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/u4wEUrTCJQY&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/u4wEUrTCJQY&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/2595-gop-find-the-illegal-immigrant-game-catches-flak"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/1879" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>College Republicans staged a tasteless game at NYU and hundreds of students showed up to oppose them.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/2595-gop-find-the-illegal-immigrant-game-catches-flak">Watch the video</a>