Shows In This Series
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COOL: Women and Girls Leading the Way to a Sustainable Future with Paola Gianturco Author/photographer Paola Gianturco will share slides and stories from “COOL: Women leaders Reversing Global Warming,” the first book to document the work of women and girl climate leaders worldwide, all courageous, creative and effective.Watch now » |
Fri, 03/17/2023 |
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The 50th Anniversary of “Valley Curtain” and the Artists’ Legacy Although it only lasted a mere 28 hours in the winds of the Grand Hogback Mountain Range in 1972, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s masterwork “Valley Curtain” sent ripples through the art world and continues to influence artists and art critics today. The 4½-acre curtain of orange fabric hanging...Watch now » |
Tue, 08/09/2022 |
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The Last Kings of Shanghai with Author Jonathan Kaufman An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Kaufman, “The Last Kings of Shanghai” examines the little-known history of two extraordinary...Watch now » |
Tue, 07/26/2022 |
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Conversations on Controversial Issues: Moderated by Clay Jenkinson - The Supreme Court of the USA In a new series from Vail Symposium, humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson gathers experts for a thoughtful, civil, rigorous and historically-grounded discussion on various controversial issues. The first topic? The Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court has become the focus of...Watch now » |
Fri, 06/24/2022 |
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The Power and Beauty of the Brain w/ Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and Dr. Sue Morter In 1996 at the age of 37, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey,” experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain. On the afternoon of this rare form of stroke (AVM), she could not...Watch now » |
Fri, 06/03/2022 |
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Beyond Belief: Considering Evidence for Life After Life with Dr. Eben Alexander and Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD. Believing in the afterlife is one thing… proving it is another. This year, people from around the world competed in an essay contest providing their rationale for life after death. Nearly $2 million in prize money was awarded with Las Vegas entrepreneur Robert Bigelow putting up the prize money...Watch now » |
Fri, 04/08/2022 |
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Cold Comfort: Investigating a Mysterious Disappearance on Everest - Jeremy Evans on Marco Siffredi Marco Siffredi was the first person to make a complete snowboard descent of Mount Everest in 2001 and was regarded by many as the world’s best snowboarder. But the following year, in 2002, Marco mysteriously disappeared on Everest while attempting a more difficult route known as Hornbein Couloir...Watch now » |
Wed, 02/23/2022 |
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Long Haulers: The COVID-19 Aftereffects that will Continue to Reverberate Globally w/ Thomas Wright COVID-19 spread across the globe like a true tsunami: almost imperceptible at the outset, building inexorably, resulting in tremendous destruction. Global interconnectedness such as the free flow of goods, services and people became a liability spreading the disease across borders and around the...Watch now » |
Thu, 02/03/2022 |
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Cryptocurrency and Digital Currency: The Future of Money with Bob Bench and Puneet Singhvi The future of money will be here faster and be more diverse than you think. What are cryptocurrency and digital currency? The terms are not synonymous. While all cryptocurrencies could be considered digital currencies, not all digital currencies need to be official sovereign-backed currencies....Watch now » |
Wed, 01/26/2022 |
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Declining Global Population and Its Consequences with Dr. Darrell Bricker For half a century, statisticians, pundits and politicians have warned that a burgeoning population will soon overwhelm the earth’s resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different alarm. Rather than continuing to increase exponentially, they argue, the global population is...Watch now » |
Thu, 01/20/2022 |
